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By Eric Mitchell, President, ASOR-SW
[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The annual spring meeting of the Southwest Regional ASOR took place at the Southwest Commission of Religious Studies (SWCRS) in Dallas, TX on March 9-10, 2013. SWCRS is a joint meeting sponsored by southwest regional AAR/SBL/ASSR/ASOR. Eight ASOR members and eleven student ASOR members presented papers in five sessions (New Testament Archaeology, Iron Age Archaeology, Excavation Reports, Archaeology in Text and Classroom, and a Special Joint ASOR/SBL session). The student papers were presented in the main by PhD and Master’s students from the Tandy Institute of Archaeology at Southwestern Seminary, with one paper from a Baylor University doctoral student. The average attendance for our sessions was twenty six. Our annual joint ASOR/SBL session had thirty four in attendance for two papers: Steve Ortiz (The Tandy Institute) presented the ASOR paper Archaeology and the Gospels: Recent Trends and Research and William Warren (New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary) presented the SBL paper Text Criticism and the Gospels: Recent Trends and Research.Our annual Eisenbrauns Student Paper Award was won by R. Adam Dodd, a doctoral student at Southwestern Seminary. Southwest Regional members voted to plan an Archaeology and History of the Second Temple conference for our 2014 regional meetings to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the SWCRS and our participation therein. During the meeting, the SWCRS board of directors elected Steve Ortiz to be the SWCRS vice-president; he will then be president for the year following.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column border_color=”rgba(170,170,170,0.01)” width=”1/6″ css=”.vc_custom_1496684098866{margin-right: 5px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;border-right-width: 2px !important;border-bottom-width: 2px !important;padding-top: 30px !important;padding-right: 10px !important;padding-left: 10px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-right-color: rgba(227,228,228,0.75) !important;border-bottom-color: rgba(227,228,228,0.75) !important;}”][vc_wp_posts title=”BROWSE THE NEWS ARCHIVE” number=”4″][/vc_column][vc_column border_color=”rgba(170,170,170,0.01)” width=”1/6″ css=”.vc_custom_1496684008271{margin-right: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 30px !important;border-right-width: 2px !important;border-bottom-width: 2px !important;padding-top: 30px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-right-color: rgba(227,228,228,0.75) !important;border-bottom-color: rgba(227,228,228,0.75) !important;}”][vc_column_text]Tweets by ASOResearch [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
Most members of ASOR cannot remember a time when P.E. MacAllisterwas not an integral part of the organization. Mr. MacAllister has been involved in ASOR since the early 1970’s, and he has been ASOR’s board chair since 1994.
ASOR is proud to announce that 
ASOR’s Regional Affiliations Committee and Lecture Committee are combining resources for the second year to support ASOR members who are organizing lectures and events on archaeological or historical topics related to ASOR’s mission. This goals of this collaboration are to increase ASOR’s presence in events throughout the year and to promoting ASOR’s mission of public outreach.
Ackerman is the Preston H. Kelsey Professor of Religion and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Dartmouth College. Her publications include several articles and three books, Under Every Green Tree: Popular Religion in Sixth-Century Judah (Scholars Press, 1992); Warrior, Dancer, Seductress, Queen: Women in Judges and Biblical Israel (Doubleday, 1998); and When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David (Columbia University Press, 2005). She has recently completed a draft of a new book, on women and the religion of ancient Israel. She has been a member of the ASOR Board of Trustees since 2007, and during that time has also served on the Board’s Finance and Audit Committee and its Strategic Planning Task Force. Currently, she is serving the Board as a member of the Capital Campaign Cabinet and the Board Chair Search Committee. Other current service to ASOR includes serving as a member of the Committee on Publications and on the editorial board of Near Eastern Archaeology.
has been a member of ASOR for the past 10 years and began presenting at Annual Meetings early in her doctoral studies. Her dissertation is entitled Ceramic Continuity and Change at Shechem (Tell Balatâh): Assessing the Impact of Egyptian Imperialism in the Central Hill County, which she defended in 2010 at the University of Toronto. She has participated in excavations at Tell Jawa and Wadi ath-Thamad in Jordon and Tell el-Borg in the Northeast Sinai. Catherine currently serves as a Board Member for the Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies in Toronto. Her volunteer work includes the Toronto Humane Society and Pathways to Education tutoring Program in Regent Park. Prior to returning to studies, Catherine was a journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) in Atlantic Canada. Currently, she works at the University of Toronto at the OISE Library and continues to do ceramic research in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations. In her spare time, Catherine loves to cross-country ski, play beach volleyball, and hang out with her two rescues, Shultz, a mini-dachshund and Hunter, a Lhasa Apso.
received his Ph.D. from the Department of Oriental Studies of the University of Pennsylvania. He has spent most of his life in archaeological pursuit of the past, mining the antique soils of decayed ruins in search of ancient Israel, Canaan, and Philistia. Combining the disciplines of Archaeology and Biblical Studies, Dr. Gittlen strives to bring the past to life and to reach new understandings of Canaanite, Philistine, and Israelite civilizations. Dr. Gittlen‘s research includes publishing his sector of the excavations at Tel Miqne/Ekron, understanding the mechanisms of ancient trade, and exploring the archaeology of worship. In addition to Tel Miqne/Ekron, his excavation experience includes Tel Gezer, the Jenin-Megiddo Survey, Tel Jemmeh, Tel Sera, and Be’er Resisim/Har Resisim. Finally, Barry Gittlen has been an involved member of ASOR since 1966 and has worked on various committees, chaired the Program Committee, and served as a trustee of the Albright Institute. He is in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Towson University.
received her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College in Classical Archaeology in 1997. Since 1998, she has been teaching ancient art history and archaeology in the School of Visual Arts at Virginia Tech, while serving as the School’s Associate Director since 2011. Her research interests bridge east and west, especially Cyprus and Greece during the archaic and classical periods. She is interested in iconography, religion and the role of women. Ann-Marie has excavated in Israel, Greece and Cyprus (at Yeronisos Island, and at Idalion since 1998). Ann-Marie has chaired several ASOR sessions on Cyprus, guest co-edited Near Eastern Archaeology, (71 no. 1-2) Ancient Cyprus: American Research. She has been a member of the Board of Trustees of CAARI since 2002, and a member of the NEA editorial board since 2008. She is finishing her first three-year term as a board member of ASOR. While on the Board, Ann-Marie has been a member of the Executive Committee, the ASOR Board Presidential Search Committee, the Nominations Committee and the Task Force for Implementing the ASOR Strategic Plan.