2024 MEMBERSHIP AND OUTREACH COMMITTEE

The Committee on Membership and Outreach takes responsibility for discussing matters regarding ASOR institutional and individual memberships, including (but not limited to) strategies for membership growth, appropriate membership benefits, the most fitting way to categorize individual memberships (student, recent graduate, etc.), greater enfranchisement of ASOR’s international members, and resources that members might like ASOR to provide. The committee also oversees ASOR’s outreach efforts. These include, preeminently, the Friends of ASOR program (a program for individuals who share ASOR members’ interest in the archaeology and history of the Near East and wider Mediterranean but who are not themselves members). In addition, it advises the ASOR staff about the presentation and content of several of ASOR’s digital platforms, including the ASOR Facebook page, the ASOR Twitter account, ASORTv, and ASOR’s weekly bi-monthly e-newsletter News@ASOR. 

Theodore (Teddy) Burgh, Chair (until December 31, 2025)

Class of 2023

Felix Höflmayer (1st term)
Kyle Keimer (2nd term)
Cynthia Shafer-Elliott (2nd term)
Ann Sahlman (1st term)

Class of 2024

Regine Hunziker-Rodewald (2nd term)

Class of 2025

Ian Cipin (2nd term)
Sarah Costello (2nd term)
Kara Larson (2nd term)
Carolyn Rivers (2nd term)

Sheldon Fox (ex officio)
Sharon Herbert (ex officio)
Katherine Schmitt (ex officio, non-voting)
Andrew G. Vaughn (ex officio, non-voting)

Education Outreach Committee

Neal Bierling
Ellen Dailey Bedell
Stefanie P. Elkins
Pam Gaber

Friends of ASOR Committee

Stevan B. Dana
Susan Laden
Alex MacAllister
Carolyn Midkiff Strange
Jennie Ebeling (non-voting)
Katherine Schmitt (non-voting)
Andrew G. Vaughn (non-voting)