2021 ASOR HONORS & AWARDS
Each year at the Annual Meeting, ASOR recognizes individuals who have performed outstanding service for the organization, those who have published exceptional academic work, and those who made significant contributions to our field. The following award recipients were honored at the 2021 Annual Meeting in Chicago and during the Members’ Meeting on December 8th as part of the Virtual Annual Meeting. Awards were presented by Lynn Welton, Chair of ASOR’s Honors and Awards Committee.
The W. F. Albright Award. This award honors an individual who has shown special support or made outstanding service contributions to one of the overseas centers, ACOR, AIAR, CAARI, or to one of the overseas committees – the Baghdad Committee and the Damascus Committee. This award is given when such an individual is identified.
ACOR: Awarded to Øystein LaBianca, Trustee, Representative to ASOR Board of Trustees, ACOR.
AIAR: Awarded to Susan Cohen, Trustee, Chair of Fellowship Committee, AIAR
CAARI: Awarded posthumously to F. Bryan Wilkins, former President of the Board of Trustees, CAARI.
The Charles U. Harris Service Award. This award is given in recognition of long term and/or special service as an ASOR officer or Trustee (one award is given annually).
Awarded to Sheila Bishop, President, The Foundation for Biblical Archaeology.
The P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award. This award honors an archaeologist who, during his/her career, has made outstanding contributions to ancient Near Eastern and eastern Mediterranean archaeology (one award is given annually).
Awarded to Andrea Berlin, James R. Wiseman Chair in Classical Archaeology, Professor of Archaeology and Religion, Boston University.
ASOR Membership Service Award. This award recognizes individuals who have made special contributions on behalf of the ASOR membership, through committee, editorial, or office services.
Awarded to Hanan Charaf, Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Archaeology, Lebanese University; former editor of the Archaeological Report Series
Awarded to Kate Grossman, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, North Carolina State University; outgoing Chair of the CAP Fellowship Subcommittee
Awarded to Heather McKee, former ASOR Treasurer
The G. Ernest Wright Award. This award is given to the editor/author of the most substantial volume(s) dealing with archaeological material, excavation reports and material culture from the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean. This work must be the result of original research published within the past two years (one award is given annually).
Awarded to Allison Mickel, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Lehigh University University, for Why Those Who Shovel Are Silent: A History of Local Archaeological Knowledge and Labor, University Press of Colorado.
The Frank Moore Cross Award. This award is presented to the author/editor of the most substantial volume(s) related to the history and/or religion of the ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean. Primary consideration will be given to historical, epigraphic, textual, and comparative literary studies; or to works that advance and/or evaluate new methodological approaches to the literary record(s). This work must be the result of original research published during the past two years (one award is given annually).
Awarded to Geoffrey Khan, Regius Professor of Hebrew, University of Cambridge, for The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew, Open Book Publishers.
The Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award. This award is presented to the author/editor of a book published in the last two years that offers a new synthesis of archaeological or textual evidence intended to reach an audience of scholars as well as students and the broader public (one award is given annually).
Awarded to Max Price, Principal Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for Evolution of a Taboo: Pigs and People in the Ancient Near East, Oxford University Press.
The Joy Ungerleider Poster Award. This award is conferred upon the author(s) of the poster presenting the results of a study about ancient Near Eastern societies in a clear, legible fashion using original graphic content. Subject matter may be based in archaeological sciences, history, anthropology, epigraphy, ethnography, heritage or other scholarly approaches to understanding ancient people in the areas covered by ASOR (one award is given annually).
Awarded to Emily L. Simons, University of Melbourne, for the poster: “Griffins in Late Bronze Age East Mediterranean Archaeology.”
Student Paper Award. This award is conferred upon the author(s) of a paper presented during the Annual Meeting that conveys the results of a study about ancient Near Eastern and wider Mediterranean societies in a clear, understandable and convincing fashion. The first author and presenter of the paper must be a registered student at the time of presentation in order to be eligible for consideration for this award.
Awarded to Gretchen Emma Zoeller, University of Pittsburgh, for the paper “A Paleopathological Investigation of Amputation in Ancient Nubia.”
