Other large and important programs followed Ford's—most notably, the National Defense Education Act of 1957, renamed the Higher Education Act in 1965, which allocated funding for some 125 university-based area studies units known as National Resource Center programs at U.S. universities, as well as for Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships for graduate students.
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As of 2012, its editors are Todd Herzog (University of Cincinnati) and Hillary Hope Herzog (University of Kentucky); book review editor is Joseph W. Moser (Randolph-Macon College), and the editorial board includes prominent Austrianists and Germanists from the U.S., UK, Canada, Austria, and Germany representing a variety of area studies.
He earned his Masters degree in German Area Studies (Literature concentration) from American University in Washington, D.C. He completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from American University and also studied musicology for a year at the University of Salzburg in Austria.
Journal of the Southwest, an interdisciplinary area studies journal published by the University of Arizona
In 2006 Applied and Lacock Gullam undertook local area studies in Westminster, South Bank, Richmond and Twickenham to show how the concept could adapt to different urban forms; with a further study in Hackney looking at specific issues relating to transport interchange.
The University of Oklahoma School of International and Area Studies, also known as just SIAS, is the international studies unit of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, USA.