Throughout its early years, the center received substantial funding from the United States Department of State.
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ARCE was founded in 1948 in Boston by Edward W. Forbes, then the director of the Fogg Museum at Harvard, and Sterling Dow, then president of the Archaeological Institute of America, with the intention of creating a research center in Egypt on the model of similar institutions in Greece and Rome.
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ARCE also runs a summer language program for university students studying Arabic and awards fellowships for research in Egypt and works with the Supreme Council of Antiquities and its institutional members in conserving and excavating sites around Egypt, with notable current projects including El Kab, the Precinct of Mut, the Red Monastery, the Temple of Khonsu the Temple complex at Luxor, and the temple of Ramses II at Abydos.
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Smith serves on the following civic boards: the Royal Shakespeare Company, Curtis Institute of Music Advisory Board, Central Park Conservancy, George Mason Life Sciences Advisory Board, the Library of Congress, the American Research Center in Egypt - Presidential Appointee, and Servicemembers Legal Defense Network.
Mendes I (coauthored with Emma Swan Hall; Bernard V Bothmer) Cairo : American Research Center in Egypt, 1980