Philip Hosay, professor and director of international education at NYU Steinhardt, has received a grant of $900,000 over three years from the US Department of State to help fund his program, the "Multinational Institute of American Studies". Since it was founded in 1981, the program has worked with over 1,000 foreign educators, government officials, journalists, diplomats and businessmen from more than 100 countries to encourage the study of the United States abroad, in all levels of schooling. The institute seeks to provide other countries with a more accurate understanding of the U.S., support research on educational and cultural exchange between foreign countries, and study the way in which other countries perceive and teach about the United States.

Funding from the grant given by the Department of State will go towards short-term, non-credit courses on American studies and cultural exchange topics, in which worldwide representatives are invited to participate. Staff of Hosay's institute have served as consultants in over 15 countries around the world in order to better improve their studies of the U.S. Hosay has served as a consultant for the U.S. State Department in Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Italy, Egypt, Armenia, Belarus, Russia, Japan, Korea and Thailand, and has also lectured at a number of foreign universities.

More information on MIAS can be found at: http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/humsocsci/mias/