Aviram Prize sponsored by the Dorot Foundation
The Dorot Foundation announces its sponsorship of a Prize, administered by the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), to honor Joseph Aviram, Director of the Israel Exploration Society (IES) for seventy years and President of the IES as of January 1, 2010.
The $2,500 Prize will be awarded for the paper selected by a Committee of Judges from single-authored papers offered at the ASOR's Annual Meeting (November 17-20, 2010). The primary criterion of the winning paper will be that it most advances the scholarship of its given field.
The paper can be by a scholar of any national origin who received her/his Ph.D. within the last five years. The paper can be on any topic that is consonant with ASOR’s mission statement. The author must be or become a registered participant in the Annual Meeting (which includes being a professional member of ASOR).
The submission deadline is October 1, 2010. While the paper that is submitted to the Committee of Judges may be up to 25 pages in length, the winner of the prize will need to read an abbreviated version of the paper in an existing time slot (typically no more than 20 minutes). The paper must be submitted by email to ASOR at asormtgs@bu.edu along with the candidate’s name and email address, the date of the receipt of the Ph.D., and the name, email address, and phone number of the dissertation adviser.
Eligible meeting participants who have already registered for the Annual Meeting will be given an opportunity to register their desire for inclusion in the competition.