Updates & News
- Thomas Schneider Appointed Editor of NEA
- Call for Nominations: ASOR Treasurer
- Call for Nominations: ASOR Vice President
- Current ASOR Journals Available Through JSTOR January 1, 2012
- Implementation Task Force Recommendations for Changes to the ASOR By-Laws (Updated April 3, 2011)
- ACOR Jordanian Travel Scholarships for ASOR's 2011 Annual Meeting
- The American Research Institute in Turkey: ARIT Research Fellowship Programs 2011-2012
- CAARI opens Anatolian Archaeology Collection
- Obituaries
- ASOR Receives Major NEH Grant
Thomas Schneider Appointed Editor of NEA
At its November 2011 meeting in San Francisco, the ASOR Board of Trustees elected Professor Thomas Schneider (University of British Columbia) as the new Editor of Near Eastern Archaeology (NEA). Schneider has extensive experience in journal and monograph editing as Editor-in-Chief of the Culture and History of the Ancient Near East series (Brill) where he has overseen the production of the last 25 volumes on topics ranging from Household Archaeology in Israel to Ancient Near Eastern Art and Neo-Assyrian Society, and as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Egyptian History (Brill).
Schneider will work with ASOR’s Committee on Publication and the NEA Editorial Board to continue to articulate the editorial vision of NEA, presenting a balanced ratio of archaeological field reports, broad cultural and historical syntheses, and overviews of current methodological debates—conveying important scholarly work to a wide readership.
Schneider began the position on January 1, 2012 when the term of Professor Ann E. Killebrew ended. Killebrew was the journal’s editor since June 2008. During her tenure, Near Eastern Archaeology became up-to-date in its publication schedule, and the journal benefited greatly from her energy, enthusiasm, and editorial skill.
As of January 1, 2012, all issues of ASOR’s journals (NEA, BASOR, and JCS) are available online through the JSTOR Current Scholarship Program. The available issues include the most
current ones as well all of back issues dating back to 1920.
Call for Nominations: ASOR Treasurer
Announcing a Call for nominations for the position of Treasurer of ASOR. This position will commence upon election and run through December 2015. A complete description of the position may be found at Article IV, Section 9 of the ASOR bylaws (http://www.asor.org/about/bylaws.html). Importantly and essentially, we are seeking someone who is either a CPA or has CFO experience (or both) with a desire to further the mission of ASOR. The successful nominee will train under the current Treasurer (Sheldon Fox) from election until January 2013, when the three-year term commences. The Treasurer works closely with the Executive Director and the Boston Staff and serves on the Executive Committee.
Nominations will be accepted until the position is filled (April 2012 Board meeting); vetting will begin on ASAP. To nominate someone please contact Gary Arbino, Chair of the Officers Nominations Committee. If you have questions, feel free to contact Gary Arbino or any of the other members of the Committee (Carol Meyers, Joe Seger, Susan Sheridan, as well as Tim Harrison and Andy Vaughn). ASOR is an Equal Opportunity Employer. ASOR affirms its commitment to equality of opportunity and pledges that it will not practice or permit discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran’s status, sexual orientation, or gender identity. The Board actively seeks candidates who represent the diversity within its membership for positions of leadership.
Call for Nominations: ASOR Vice President
Announcing a Call for Nominations for the newly created Office of ASOR Vice President. This position is elected by the ASOR Board of Trustees and will serve until January 2014. It is assumed that the Vice President will be promoted to the position of ASOR President in January 2014, for a three-year term. The Vice President’s primary responsibilities will be to Chair the Chairs Coordinating Council and serve on ASOR’s Executive Committee. The Vice President shall also perform such additional duties as the Board of Trustees, the Executive Committee, the President, or the Board Chair may from time to time prescribe. In the event that both the President and Chair of the Board are unable to be present to discharge the duties of the President, the Vice President shall perform the duties of the President.
Nominations will be accepted until the position is filled (April 2012 Board meeting); vetting will begin on February 1, 2012. To nominate someone please contact Gary Arbino, Chair of the Officers Nominations Committee. If you have questions, feel free to contact Gary Arbino or any of the other members of the Committee (Carol Meyers, Joe Seger, Susan Sheridan, as well as Tim Harrison and Andy Vaughn). ASOR is an Equal Opportunity Employer. ASOR affirms its commitment to equality of opportunity and pledges that it will not practice or permit discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran’s status, sexual orientation, or gender identity. The Board actively seeks candidates who represent the diversity within its membership for positions of leadership.
Current ASOR Journals Available Through JSTOR January 1, 2012
The American Schools of Oriental Studies is pleased to announce that we will be joining the JSTOR Current Scholarship Program. Effective January 2012, the following electronic subscriptions for current issues will be available on the JSTOR platform:
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
Journal of Cuneiform Studies
Near Eastern Archaeology
ASOR members who choose an online or a print and online subscription may access the complete run of these titles through JSTOR for the price of their membership without any additional fees. Institutional and individual subscribers may access current issues, plus the past four years of back issues. Subscribers may access back issues through the traditional JSTOR platform. With back file and current content available on a single platform, subscribers may enjoy convenient access to a rich and robust resource. The platform will enable powerful discovery, linking, and other features to aid research and scholarship.
The Current Scholarship Program was created to help the academic community benefit from investment in a shared technology platform and related services, to support the publication, dissemination, and use of new scholarship. ASOR is pleased to join others in the academic community in making this type of access available to our members and subscribers. For more information on the Current Scholarship Program, please contact JSTOR at participation@jstor.org. For more information on ASOR’s publications in the JSTOR CSP Platform, please contact ASOR Membership & Subscription Services, 617-358-4376.
Implementation Task Force (ITF) Working Documents and Strategic Planning Documents
- April 2, 2011: Recommendations for Changes to the ASOR By-Laws
- January 31, 2011: revised recommendations
- Revised recommendations for changes to by-laws (pdf)
- Members of the ITF who may be contacted with suggestions / comments: Jeff Blakely, Jennie Ebeling, Tim Harrison (chair), Ann-Marie Knoblauch, Oystein LaBianca, Suzanne Richard, and Andy Vaughn
- November, 2010 documents
- March 24, 2010: planning document for strategic plan
ACOR Travel Scholarships
The American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) is initiating two annual travel scholarships to assist Jordanian scholars in participating in and delivering a paper at the American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting in mid-November in the United States. This scholarship is to be applied for in the year of the scheduled meeting, which moves from city to city, namely San Francisco (2011), Chicago (2012), and Baltimore (2013).
ASOR hosts its annual meeting in mid-November each year, and the academic program includes sessions on specific, pre-determined themes (www.asor.org/am). To present a paper in one of the ASOR or Member-Organized Sessions, interested scholars must submit applications according to the schedule announced on the ASOR website, where the list of session-topics is also posted. It is recommended that scholars interested in delivering a paper in a specific session email the Session Chair considerably in advance of the Abstract Deadline to notify the Session Chair of their interest. All presenters must submit their own applications to be approved by the ASOR Program Committee.
Abstracts should be submitted electronically using ASOR’s online abstract submission system. Jordanian applicants may submit abstracts without meeting the ASOR membership requirement, but membership will be required for all scholars whose papers are placed on the final program. Abstracts for papers of Jordanian applicants should be submitted to ASOR no later than February 1, 2011.
Only those applicants whose papers have been accepted to be delivered in the academic program of ASOR’s Annual Meeting will be eligible to be considered for this scholarship. Awardees will be identified in time for ASOR's March 15 “no late Abstract/Participation Forms accepted” date. This schedule should give awardees time to commit or be replaced by alternates, if they are unable to accept.
Each award is $3500 to cover ASOR annual membership fees, registration fee for annual meeting, U.S. visa (to be applied for by awardees in a timely fashion after notice of receipt of funding with letter of acceptance), international airfare from Jordan to the United States, and hotel costs at the meeting. This award is funded by ACOR.
Applicants will be notified in March 2011.
For additional information and assistance please contact: ACOR Amman Office, P.O. Box 2470, Tel: 9626-534-6117; Fax: 534-4118; Email: acor@acorjordan.org. For assistance with the ASOR online application process contact the ASOR Boston Office at asorad@bu.edu.
Job Posting: UPenn Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology seeks applicants for two one-year positions.The American Research Institute in Turkey: ARIT Research Fellowship Programs 2011-2012
The American Research Institute in Turkey is a non-profit academic organization founded in 1964 for the purpose of supporting research and promoting scholarly exchange in Turkey. ARIT administers a number of fellowship programs to support research and exchange in Turkey as described in the attached release. In addition, ARIT maintains two research institutes in Turkey, one in Istanbul and one in Ankara.
Both branches include a library, hostel, and administrative offices for the support of American and Canadian based scholars conducting research in Turkey.
Please contact this office for further information about ARIT research centers, programs, or membership.
ARIT RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS 2011-2012
American Research Institute in Turkey / National Endowment for the Humanities Advanced Fellowships for Research in Turkey, 2011-2012
ARIT/NEH Advanced Fellowships cover all fields of the humanities, including prehistory, history, art, archaeology, literature, and linguistics as well as interdisciplinary aspects of cultural history for applicants who have completed their academic training. The fellowships may be held for terms ranging from four months to a full year. Stipends range from $16,800 to 50,400.ARIT Fellowships for Research in Turkey, 2011-2012
ARIT Fellowships are offered for research in ancient, medieval, or modern times, in any field of the humanities and social sciences. Post-doctoral and advanced doctoral fellowships may be held for various terms, from one to three months up to terms of a year. Stipends range from $4,000 to $16,000.
Kenan T. Erim Fellowship, 2010-2011
The Erim fellowship will support excavation or field study of excavated material remains at Aphrodisias during the summer 2011, $2,375. Applications for ARIT fellowships must be submitted to ARIT before November 1, 2010. The fellowship committee will notify applicants by late January, 2011.
For more details please contact Nancy Leinwand
American Research Institute in Turkey
University of Pennsylvania Museum
3260 South Street
Philadelphia PA 19104-6324 Fax 215 898 0657 Email: leinwand@sas.upenn.edu Website: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ARIT
CAARI opens Anatolian Archaeology Collection
In a ceremony on January 26, CAARI opened a new section of its library—one dedicated to the study of all periods of Anatolian archaeology. US Ambassador Frank Urbancic joined CAARI Director Tom Davis, USAID Representative Alan Davis, CAARI staff and advisory board members, antiquities professionals and students at the event and was one of the first to leaf through the collection, which will include archaeological site reports, studies, periodicals and reference volumes.
Click here for more information available on the website of the US Embassy in Cyprus.
ASOR Receives Major NEH Grant
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced that The American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) has received an outright grant of $300,903 for a 27-month long project to digitize, arrange, describe, and make accessible ASOR's geographically dispersed archives. The archives focus on archaeological excavations and the history of archaeology in the Middle East from 1871 to the present. The archives are presently located at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, at the Semitic Museum at Harvard University, and at ASOR's headquarters at Boston University. The project will also create finding aids and mount digitized materials on the internet. The project is directed by Eric Meyers (Duke University). The ASOR Archives Initiative Advisory Committee will be co-chaired by Meyers and Rachel Hallote (Purchase College SUNY). Other members of the advisory committee include Jeffrey Blakely (University of Wisconsin), Joseph Greene (Harvard University), Phillip King (Boston College), Lawrence Mykytiuk (Purdue University), and Andrew Vaughn (ASOR).