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Annual ACMS Fundraising Letter
ACMS Program Highlight from 2018 2018 marks the final year of the three-year Cultural Heritage Program (CHP), funded by the Henry Luce Foundation and implemented by ACMS. As ACMS Cultural Heritage Coordinator, Dr. Julia [...]
Announcement on Mongolia Field School 2019
Mongolia Field School 2019 The American Center for Mongolian Studies is pleased to announce a new inter-disciplinary field school program to be held July 29-August 16, 2019 in Mongolia. The field school is open to [...]
ACMS Summer Mongolian Language Students Give High Marks to Quality of Program
The five students participating in this summer's ACMS Mongolian language program in Ulaanbaatar provided both positive feedback and useful suggestions in the survey that followed. Nearly three out of every four box "checked" was in [...]
Over 500 Books Donated by ACMS Member, Blake Epstein
Thanks to the generous donation from our wonderful member Blake Epstein, ACMS was able to distribute over 500 English-language academic books to schools located in Mongolia. ACMS identified ten schools that follow a Cambridge curriculum, [...]
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ACMS Mongolia Field School 2019
The first annual interdisciplinary Mongolia Field School hosted by the American Center for Mongolian Studies (ACMS) will be held from July 29-August 16, 2019 in Ulaanbaatar and field sites near Lake Hovsgol in northern Mongolia. [...]
Library Fellowship 2019
ACMS offers Library Fellowships of up to $4,000 to help support US graduate students, faculty members, or professionals in library and information sciences from colleges and universities to conduct short-term library development projects and/or [...]
Field Research Fellowship 2019
ACMS invites applicants to apply for the ACMS Field Research Fellowship Program, which is funded by the US State Department Educational and Cultural Affairs Bureau and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers. The [...]
Intensive Summer Language Program 2019
2019 Intensive Language Fellowship Program ACMS invites students and scholars to enroll in an eight week Intensive Mongolian Language Program from June 10 to August 9, 2019 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The purpose [...]
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Ikh Nart: An Archaeological Treasure Trove- Blake Epstein
Mongolia Field Note #12- author Blake Epstein The Ikh Nart Nature Preserve contains a vast array of archaeological sites and artifacts spanning more than 9,000 years of the human history. It is a 66,000-hectare preserve, [...]
Linguistic Landscape Research: Ulaanbaatar – Phillip Marzluf
English only sign in the center of Ulaanbaatar. (Photo by Phillip Marzluf) Mongolia Field Note #11 - author Phillip Marzluf Linguistic landscape research examines all of the written materials that are publicly accessible to people [...]
Amur Falcon nesting ecology: a case-study in land-use practices, climate change, and protected areas in central Mongolia – Ryan C. Burner
Studying the nesting ecology of the Amur Falcon alongside herds of Takhi, the Mongolia wild horse. Photo credit: Gombobaatar Sundev. Mongolia Field note #10, author: Ryan C. Burner Mongolia, due to its diversity [...]
Ulaanbaatar Studies and the Pursuit of Knowledge in the City Streets – Paweł Szczap
Mongolia Field note #9, author: Paweł Szczap Home to roughly half of the population of Mongolia, the capital of the country – Ulaanbaatar – in many ways remains a curious case. This once nomadic, monastic encampment [...]
