Featured Organizational Partners and Ambassadors

IIE-SRF Alliance partners provide many types of services and support to IIE-SRF fellows and alumni. More than 120 IIE-SRF scholars have benefited greatly from the generous support of our partners, resulting in membership in academic societies, conference presentations, job offers, co-published articles, and more. Featured below are several key partners that support scholars’ career advancement and professional development.

IIE-SRF is actively seeking new partners to join the IIE-SRF Alliance, our global network of partners who offer practical support to threatened and displaced scholars. Joining the Alliance represents an important opportunity to impact the lives of displaced scholars as they seek to reintegrate into an unfamiliar academic community and job market. Alliance partners receive regular updates from IIE-SRF regarding scholars in need of academic appointments or support services, as well as other information about how to get involved.

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Ambassadors

Organizational Partners

American Academy of Religion

Established in 1909, the American Academy of Religion is the world’s largest organization dedicated to preserving and promoting the academic study of religion. AAR members number more than 8,000 religion scholars around the globe, a membership that continued to grow in incluence and diversity. The AAR is not a faith-based organization. The expertise of its membership spans virtually all religions, and the AAR neither endorses nor condemns any religious belief or practice.

American Historical Association

 The American Historical Association is a nonprofit membership organization founded in 1884 and incorporated by Congress in 1889 for the promotion of historical studies. The AHA provides leadership for the discipline, protects academic freedom, develops professional standards, aids in the pursuit and publication of scholarship, generates innovative teaching, and supplies various services to sustain and enhance the work of its members. As the largest organization of professional historians in the world, the AHA represents more than 12,000 members and serves historians representing every historical period and geographical area, as well as a wide variety of professions.

Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS)

Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) is the society for the study of Central Eurasia. Its mission is to: Facilitate communication and interaction among scholars of the Central Eurasia region, and in doing so to promote high standards of scholarship and instruction about the Central Eurasia region; Promote cooperation among people and organizations concerned with the scholarly study of Central Eurasia; Promote general knowledge of and public interest in Central Eurasia.

Coursera

The Coursera Social Impact initiative promotes global social equity and economic opportunity by giving communities in need access to the transformational power of learning. Coursera courses last approximately four to ten weeks, with one to two hours of video lectures a week. These courses provide quizzes, weekly exercises, peer-graded assignments, and sometimes a final project or exam. Some courses are also provided on-demand, in which case users can take their time in completing the course with all of the material available at once.

Community Building Art Works (CBAW)

Community Building Art Works (CBAW) is a charitable organization that builds healthy and connected communities where veterans and civilians share creative expression, mutual understanding, and support. Their combination of arts programs for veterans and community-building events and services has reached thousands of Service Members, Veterans, and Military Family members in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. In September 2018 IIE-SRF partnered with Community Building Art Works to connect IIE-SRF fellows and alumni with their local community and create a space for introspection, communication, and connection.

Global Young Academy

The Global Young Academy (GYA), an international organization that aims to bring together young scientists to solve global problems and policy issues, is helping to support at-risk scholars. Through partnerships with IIE-SRF and other initiatives that assist threatened and displaced academics, GYA is offering peer mentorship to early-career scholars impacted by conflict and persecution. As of January 2020, GYA has matched 20 young scientists with global mentors, and plans additional pairings. Read more about GYA’s work with IIE-SRF here.

International Society of Political Psychology

ISPP is an interdisciplinary organization representing all fields of inquiry concerned with exploring the relationships between political and psychological processes. Members include psychologists, political scientists, psychiatrists, historians, sociologists, economists, anthropologists, as well as journalists, government officials and others. The Society is also international, with members from all regions of the world: The Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. ISPP is firmly committed to academic freedom and support for scholars under threat, and is proud to partner with IIE-SRF.

Midwest Political Science Association

The Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) was founded in 1939 and is dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in all areas of political science. The purposes of the MPSA are to promote the professional study and teaching of political science, to facilitate communications between those engaged in such study, and to develop standards for and encourage research in theoretical and practical political problems. As such, MPSA is a nonpartisan association. It does not support political parties or candidates. The MPSA publishes the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS), a premier journal for research in all major areas of political science. In April of each year, the MPSA holds one of the largest political science conferences in the country, with more than 5,000 presenters from throughout the United States and around the world.

Talent Beyond Boundaries

Talent Beyond Boundaries is the only organization in the world connecting refugees to international job opportunities, opening labor mobility as a complementary solution to traditional refugee resettlement. War and conflict have forced millions of skilled people to find refuge in places where they are unable to work legally. At the same time, employers around the world are searching for skilled workers. The pathways that Talent Beyond Boundaries is establishing allow refugees to find stability and employers to gain new talent, while reducing the number of dependents on aid.

Upwardly Global

Upwardly Global trains recent immigrants and refugees to adapt their educations, skills, and professional careers abroad into the US workforce. They partner with employers to help them leverage their talent pool, and to create more inclusive hiring practices and workplaces. Upwardly Global collaborates with individuals and partner organizations to help newcomers succeed in their workplaces and communities. With locations in four major US cities, Upwardly Global has access to major job markets and urban communities.