2022 PROJECT GRANT AND RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP AWARDEES
Grants for Archaeological Projects
Stevan B. Dana Project Grant
- Sergio Alarcón Robledo, Harvard University: North Saqqara Archaeological Survey (Egypt)
Lawrence T. Geraty Community Archaeology Grant
- Abdullah Abdulazeese Al-masha’lah, AlRaqeem for Logistic Services and Training: Tall Hisban (Jordan)
Denise L. Gold Project Grant
- Lindy Crewe, CAARI: Kissonerga-Skalia Bronze Age Settlement Excavation (Cyprus)
Charles Harris Project Grant
- Ian W. N. Jones, University of California-San Diego: Balu’a Regional Archaeology Project (Jordan)
- Rocco Palermo, University of Pisa: Gird-i Matrab Archaeological Project (Iraqi Kurdistan)
Joe D. Seger Project Grant
- Shawn Bubel, University of Lethbridge: Final Analysis of the Chipped Stone Tools Excavated from Tel Beth-Shemesh (Israel)
- Darrell J. Rohl, Calvin University: Religion and Society at Umm al-Jimal (Jordan)
Shepard Urgent Action Grant
- Maria Elena Ronza, SELA for Training and Protection of Heritage: Emergency Conservation of the Roman Bathhouse in Petra (Jordan)
Research Fellowships
Study of Collections Fellowships
- Joseph A. Greene, Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East: Kelsey Museum Archives-Michigan Excavations in the Carthage Sanctuary of Tanit (US)
- James D. Moore, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Cabinet du Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum in the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres-Semitic Artifacts Database (France)
- Michael Press, University of Agder: The Antiquities Market in Late Ottoman Palestine (London, Paris, and Jerusalem)
- Matthew J. Suriano, University of Maryland: Cabinet du Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum in the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres-Clermont-Ganneau Collection (France)
William G. Dever Fellowship
- Krysta Fauria, University of Southern California: Legio (Israel)
Herbert Warren Mason Fellowship
- Maria Rita Corticelli: The Kakais of Iraq: Culture, Religion and Society (Iraq)
Mesopotamian Fellowship
- A Khaled Abu Jayyab, University of Toronto: The Tepe Gawra Lower Town Survey, Ninawa (Iraq)
- Petra M. Creamer, Dartmouth College: Rural Landscapes of Imperial Iron Age Mesopotamia (Iraqi Kurdistan)
Support ASOR’s Fellowships, Scholarships, and Grants!
ASOR is fortunate to have a growing number of named endowments that support membership research, excavation grants, and scholarships for fieldwork participation and scholarships for Membership and the Annual Meeting. However, we also need support from individual donors who make annual gifts or consider establishing endowments to support these programs in perpetuity. Support of ASOR’s Annual (Unrestricted) Fund enables us to support the operations of the ever-growing scholarship and grant programs. Please contact ASOR’s executive director, Andy Vaughn, for more information about ASOR’s grants, scholarship, and fellowship programs. Gifts of all amounts are needed and greatly appreciated.
Hippos Excavations Project is one of the main continuously running Classical archaeology research expeditions in Israel. Since the year 2000 our international team has excavated the site of Hippos (Sussita) and its environs. Hippos is located upon Mt. Sussita just east of the Sea of Galilee, overlooking the lake and Eastern Galilee.
Legio is the site of the sprawling base of the Roman VIth Ferrata Legion. Established during the reign of the Emperor Hadrian (117–138 A.D.), the base controlled imperial roads, with direct access to the Galilee and inland valleys of northern Palestine—important centers of the local, occasionally uproarious, Jewish population. Excavations so far have demonstrated clear ties to major political and cultural events in the formative years of Rabbinic Judaism and Christianity and have provided an incredible new window into the Roman military occupation of the eastern provinces.
Patty Gerstenblith is a Distinguished Research Professor of Law at DePaul University and director of its Center for Art, Museum and Cultural Heritage Law. She was appointed by President Obama to serve as Chair of the President’s Cultural Property Advisory Committee in the US Department of State on which had previously served as a Public Representative under President Clinton. Since 2020, she has served as President of the Board of Directors of the US Committee of the Blue Shield and Chair of the Blue Shield International Working Group on Illegal Trafficking of Cultural Objects. She was founding president of the Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation and editor of the International Journal of Cultural Property and is currently a Research Associate of the Cultural Heritage Center at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The fourth edition of her casebook, Art, Cultural Heritage and the Law, was published in 2019. Gerstenblith lectures and publishes widely on the subjects of protection of cultural heritage during armed conflict and the international market in cultural objects. Gerstenblith received her AB from Bryn Mawr College, PhD in art history and anthropology from Harvard University, and JD from Northwestern University.
Lisa Ackerman is the Executive Director of the Columbus Citizens Foundation, a non-profit organization in New York City committed to fostering an appreciation of Italian-American heritage and achievement through a broad range of philanthropic and cultural activities. Previously, Ackerman served as the Interim Chief Executive Officer, Executive Vice President, and Chief Operating Officer of the World Monuments Fund, an organization founded in 1965 that has assisted in the conservation and development of long-term stewardship strategies at more than 600 sites in 100 countries, and as Executive Vice President of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. At WMF, where she worked from 2007 to 2019, Ackerman developed multiple international collaborative projects in conservation. In addition to general supervision over approximately 60 projects in 40 countries, she is the senior project manager for activities in Cambodia, Iraq, Libya, Thailand, and Tunisia.
Andrew Cohen is currently a government professional using his experience with the legislative process, congressional oversight, and executive-legislative branch relations to advise the Internal Revenue Service on Congressional affairs. In 2020-21, he was a Brookings Fellow at the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Prior to that, he worked for over a decade advising the U.S. Department of State on international cultural heritage protection and preservation policy, and representing the United States government in bilateral, multilateral, and intergovernmental fora as an expert on cultural heritage. In 2018-2019, as Executive Director of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee at the State Department, Cohen managed the simultaneous negotiation, signing, and implementation of more than 20 cultural property agreements between the United States and partner countries around the world, including most of the countries in the Near East and wider Mediterranean world. Dr. Cohen holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Archaeology and M.A. in Classical Archaeology from Bryn Mawr College.
Jane DeRose Evans is Professor and Chair of Art History at Temple University. She specializes in the archaeology of the Roman provinces and especially in ancient numismatics. She is a Fellow of the American Numismatic Society and a member of the Royal Numismatic Society. After excavating for many years in France, she is now project numismatist for the Harvard/Cornell Excavations in Sardis and the George Washington University excavations at Bir Madhkur (Jordan). Recently, she brought to publication The Mithraeum at Caesarea Maritima (ASOR Press. Evans has been a member of ASOR for many years, and she currently serves on the Cultural Heritage Committee and has testified on behalf of the Memoranda of Understanding that allow intercepting illegally obtained antiquities from Cyprus and Egypt at the US border. Evans served on the ASOR Board from 2011-2013 and then rejoined the Board again in January 2016. She is currently serving as the Chair of the Trustee Nominations Committee and as the Chair of the Cultural Heritage Committee.
Øystein LaBianca is a Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Associate Director of the Institute of Archaeology at Andrews University. He is the Senior Director of the Hisban Cultural Heritage Project, a community archaeology project centered at Tall Hisban in Jordan. He holds a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology and archaeology from Brandeis University. LaBianca’s research in Jordan began with studies of long-term human-animal-environment interactions as evidenced by changes over time in animal bone assemblages and related finds uncovered by his excavations and surveys at Tall Hisban. He has also been a leader in introducing community archaeology approaches to archaeological projects in Jordan. He is a long-time member of the boards of trustees of ASOR and ACOR in Amman, Jordan.
Elizabeth Osinga is currently working full-time as a co-director of the Umm al-Jimal Archaeological Project (UJAP). A former student of the late UJAP director Bert de Vries, she has worked with the project since 2012 and her graduate work focused on a socio-economic approach to ceramic analysis at the site (University of Southampton, MA, PhD). When not involved in excavations, grant writing, or other essential projects, she is immersed in Umm al-Jimal’s archive, analyzing the backlog of excavation reports and materials in preparation for long-overdue publication.
Darrell Rohl is an Assistant Professor of Archaeology, History, and Digital Humanities at Calvin University and is a co-director of the Umm al-Jimal Archaeological Project. A graduate of Andrews University (BSc) and Durham University (MA, PhD), his research has primarily focused on Roman and Late Antique periods in England, Scotland, and Jordan, as well as the application of place theories in archaeological and heritage contexts. He has co-directed excavations with Dr. Elizabeth Osinga at the Hisban North Church (2018) and Umm al-Jimal (2019), and has further fieldwork and research experience in the UK, USA, and Italy.
