Eid Greetings From ASOR

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Eid Mubarak!

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رقمنة مخطوطات التجارة عبر الصحراء
ورشة نالوت حول حماية التراث الثقافي: الجزء الثاني
نالوت تستضيف ورشة عمل للتوعية بأهمية المحافظة على الموروث الثقافى
تحديث أخبار نشاطات فريق الحقيبة المتحفية الليبى – درج .
الحقيبة المتحفية الليبية : ورشة عمل ليوم واحد في طرابلس
الفاعليات الخاصه بحدث التراث الثقافي لمده خمس ايام في مدينه صبراته ليبيا
الحقيبة المتحفيه الليبيه: ورشة غدامس ليوم واحد
الحقيبه المتحفيه للترابط و الفهم في ليبيا

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Letter to Registrants for 2020 Annual Meeting

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NEWS@ASOR E-NEWSLETTER

ANCIENT NEAR EAST TODAY E-NEWSLETTER

PAST ASOR NEWS, MONTH BY MONTH

FY20 HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

ASOR ANNUAL MEETING

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LETTER TO REGISTRANTS FOR THE 2020 BOSTON MEETING—NOW VIRTUAL

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Copy of e-mail sent to Annual Meeting registrants on July 23, 2020

Dear ASOR Friends and Colleagues,

As you have undoubtedly read in various ASOR outlets, the COVID-19 pandemic forced ASOR to move to a virtual meeting out of concern for the safety and well-being of our members and staff.

We (and all of the ASOR staff) will miss seeing you in Boston. The Annual Meeting has been the highlight of our year because it is the time when we get to connect in person with the larger ASOR family. We know that the same is true for our members—even as we all realize that the pandemic left us with no other choice.

While we will miss seeing everyone, ASOR is embracing the opportunity to develop a virtual event that can deliver the robust content of our 2020 academic program in a manner that will serve our community most effectively. We have even had a few members register for the Virtual Meeting who would not have been able to attend in person!

The Virtual Meeting will include both prerecorded presentations and synchronous discussion of research. We are in the process of consulting with the ASOR Program Committee and Session/Workshop Chairs about the requirements for our academic program. The schedule and format of the virtual meeting will be announced (in early August) after we finalize the selection of a third-party virtual partner in light of this consultation. All of this takes some time, and we appreciate your patience as we rework the meeting into a successful virtual experience.

In the meantime, we also want to review some logistics…

  1. Hotel Reservations: If you made a reservation at the Westin Boston Waterfront, your room should have been cancelled automatically. You should have received an e-mail with that cancellation. If you did not receive an e-mail (please check junk mail), we encourage you to review your Bonvoy (Marriott) online account or to contact the hotel (800-937-8461) to confirm that your room has been cancelled.
  2. Conference Registrations: Even though we anticipate greater costs to produce the virtual meeting than an in-person meeting, ASOR has made a commitment to make the Virtual Meeting accessible to the entire ASOR family.
    • Scholarships: ASOR will meet 100% of scholarship requests for registrations for anyone that has been negatively impacted (directly or indirectly) by COVID-19. In addition, if someone is not currently a member, we will provide membership scholarships on a first-come, first-served basis. To apply, simply e-mail asor2020@asor.org with a brief request.
    • Transfer your registration—choose one of the following two options:
      • Do nothing and your registration will be transferred: Your previously paid fee will be  applied to the virtual meeting registration. The difference (if any) between the two rates will help ASOR cover our increased costs of the virtual conference and for scholarships. Click here for Virtual Meeting Registration rates.
      • Request a credit to your ASOR account for any overage: E-mail asor2020@asor.org by August 25, 2020.
        • Credits can be used for any future ASOR purchase
        • Alternatively, you can request a refund check for the difference
    • Cancellation / Refund: If you do not wish to participate in the Virtual Annual Meeting, we ask that you cancel by choosing one of these three options. Please send your request to asor2020@asor.org by August 25, 2020.
      • You may request a refund check (the usual administrative fees are waived)
      • You may request a credit to your ASOR account (future memberships, meetings, etc.)
      • You may designate the registration fee as a donation towards scholarships

Last, but certainly not least, we hope that you and all of the ASOR community are safe and managing these unprecedented circumstances in good health. All of us at ASOR look forward to seeing you online in November!

Warm regards,

Andy Vaughn, ASOR Executive Director (executive-director@asor.org)
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Letter to the ANE Today Editor

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Recent events in the United States and around the world have refocused my attention to issues of Race, and how we deal, or do not deal, with them in the disciplines of Archaeology and Hebrew Bible studies, my fields of training and vocation. In some ways my thoughts have no place in the reimagining of antiquity and early people groups, since Race is a relatively modern human concept that has no basis in biology. Once we divorce concepts of Race from any footingin natural science and instead see them as social constructs, with roots back to 17th-18th century CE Europe that had profound influence on early American thinking and actions, then it is also impossible to read, see, or reconstruct Race in the ancient world. I am not suggesting that there were no differences in phenotypes, or outward appearances, between ancient people groups, just the way these differences are considered cannot, and should not, be essentialized through a modern, biological view of Race. Where concepts of Race exist is among modern researchers, living and working in a racialized society. We need to recognize this, and insure that the modern concepts do not cloud our thinking, writing, or teaching.  We also have the moral and intellectual obligation to lift up scholarship by minoritized colleagues, and use this work in our own research and in the classroom. This eats away at the implicit biases that white scholars, like myself, bring to our publications and teaching, and helps a younger generation understand some of the very concepts that I have already laid out.  One must also be careful of the sin of omission. We know that the powerful Kushite empire had political hegemony over Egypt in its 25th Dynasty, ca. 760-656 BCE. From the perch of Egypt, Kushites influenced the politics and economies of biblical kingdoms in the southern Levant and vied with Assyria for political sway over the region. Kush and Kushites, usually mistranslated as Ethiopia/Ethiopian or Nubia/Nubian, are mentioned almost 80 times in the canon of the Hebrew Bible, yet the group is literally left out of a recent volume on biblical peoples.  As the only Sub-Saharan culture with ties to Hebrew Bible history, Kush was centered in the region of modern day Sudan, this is an oversight that prejudices views of the past.  Students thirst for this kind of knowledge, yet entrée to the world of Kush in the late Iron Age is mostly limited to specialist reports, and is rarely part of the curriculum in Hebrew Bible studies or the archaeology of the Near East. We need to embrace the fact that ancient black lives matter as well as modern.  Embracing change in our classrooms and research is one way to reconceptualize and deracialize the past, in order to create a more just present and equitable future.

Sincerely,

Aaron Brody, PhD
Professor of Bible and Archaeology
Director of the Bade Museum of Biblical Archaeology
Chair of the Sacred Texts Department
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غدامس: جوهرة في قلادة صحراوية

غدامس: جوهرة في قلادة صحراوية

بالشراكة مع زملائنا الليبيين ، وبدعم من صندوق سفراء وزارة الخارجية الأمريكية للحفاظ على التراث الثقافي ، وفرقة عمل الآثار الثقافية ، والمكتب الخارجي لسفارة الولايات المتحدة في ليبيا ، تقدم رسالة الأمل من خلال ورش عمل التوعية بالمحافظة على الموروث الثقافى الليبى للمتطوعين (الأحداث التفاعلية – ورش العمل) ومن خلال ورش العمل التراثية ليوم واحد او لعدة أيام

يتناول هذا المقال الجزء الثانى من ورشة عمل تطوعية أقيمت في غدامس في مارس 2020 

طلال بريون و ويل رينولدز

بالوقوف عند سفح الجبل المقام فى أعلاه قلعة رأس الغول على قمة جبل الصحابة ، يمكننا أن نرى الحدود الليبية مع تونس والجزائر ، و أشجار نخيل بعيدة تمثل واحة غدامس. من وجهة النظر هذه ، كان من الأسهل تخيل منظر قافلة تقترب بعد أيام طويلة ومرهقة من السفر عبر الصحراء ، والراحة التي قد تأتي مع رؤية شيء أخضر.

منذ آلاف السنين ، كانت واحة غدامس جوهرة فى قلادة من عدة واحات تمتد عبر الصحراء الكبرى وتحافظ على شبكة واسعة من التجارة التى كانت مزدهرة على الرغم من العديد من التحديات. وفقًا للأستاذ سعيد حامد ، المؤرخ و واحد من مرشدينا ، فإن النتوء الذي وقفنا فيه كان بمثابة حصن عسكري روماني للفيلق الأوغسطي الثالث خلال القرنين الأول والثاني قبل الميلاد ، واستخدم لاحقًا للتحصينات التي شُيدت خلال الفتوحات الإسلامية لشمال أفريقيا وخلال العهد العثمانى. تدل النقوش الموجودة في مقبرة قريبة على استخدام الحصن كنقطة مراقبة حدودية خلال فترة الحكم العثماني وفترة الإدارة الإيطالية والفرنسية للمنطقة.

يشعر التراث المبني في ليبيا بأنه غني بطبقات وسياقات تاريخية واثرية لا نهاية لها ، في حين أن الممارسات والتقاليد المادية وغير المادية الملموسة قد ساعدت في الحفاظ على المجتمعات الإنسانية في جميع أنحاء البلاد. خلال ورشة العمل التفاعلية التطوعية التي استضافتها دار الثقافة في غدامس ، سنسعى إلى تسليط الضوء على هذا التراث الغنى، وإقامة روابط حيثما أمكن مع العمل الجاري لبرنامج الحقائب المتحفية الخاص بنا.

زيارة جبل الصحابة.

إقتراب عاصفة رملية عند مغادرتنا للقلعة .

مقبرة الصحابة قرب الحصن.

قدم السيد منصور عبد السلام منصور ، مدير متحف غدامس والمكتب المحلي لدائرة الآثار الليبية ، تعريفًا شاملاً للمتحف ومدينة غدامس القديمة ، وكذلك الصناعات التقليدية في غدامس وانتقالها بين الأجيال التي ساعدت في الحفاظ على المدينة وهويتها الفريدة.

سوليمة العامري تتحدث عن التراث الثقافي غير المادي لغدامس.

سافرت السيدة فوزية سعيد عمار ، أستاذة التاريخ القديم في جامعة سرت ، عبر نصف البلاد لتشارك معنا فى هذه الورشة الفريدة والمتميزة ، و الرغم من كونها مدينة صغيرة نسبيًا ، فقد أنتجت غدامس منذ فترة طويلة ليبيين بارزين عرفوا النجاح في جميع أنحاء البلاد وخارجها وعلى الصعيد الدولي. في الواقع ، كان المهندس البخاري سالم حودة ، الذي كان القائد العام للحركة العامة للكشافة والمرشدات لما يقرب من ثلاثة عقود ، ضيفنا الكريم خلال أجزاء مهمة من الورشة.

ولكن ما سر هذا المكان الرائع؟ يبدو أن جزءًا من الإجابة على الأقل يكمن في الطريقة التي حافظت بها على العديد من التقاليد غير المادية . قدمت القائدة سوليمة العماري مقدمة مميزة عن التراث الثقافي غير المادي للمدينة وليبيا عموماً ، مرتدية لباس الزفاف النسائى التقليدي الغدامسي ، ومشاركة القصص الشعبية والألغاز القديمة معنا وحتى مشاركة وجهة نظرها الخاصة حول الدور الحيوي للتراث الليبي غير المادي في دعم المجتمع .

مدينة غدامس القديمة التاريخية.

السيد منصور عبد السلام منصور يقدم جولة إرشادية.
المشي في شوارع المدينة القديمة.

في صباح اليوم التالي ، اجتاحت المدينة رياح عاتية محملة بالرمال الخشنة التى لفحت وجوهنا بقوة . لقد شهدنا مباشرة كيف خلقت تقاليد البناء بالطوب والطين والمواد الطبيعية المتاحة بسهولة ، كيف خلقت بيئة مريحة للحياة بشكل ملحوظ ، وعندما دخلنا عبر باب البر ، أحد أبواب مدينة غدامس القديمة ، لاحظنا جميعًا أن الرياح اختفت تمامًا. تم بناء المدينة بتصميم يتماشى و ينسجم مع المناخ القاسي في المنطقة. خلال فصل الشتاء البارد ، ظلت المنازل في المدينة القديمة دافئة نسبيًا وفي الصيف كانت المدينة باردة. الرياح الجنوبية الحارة المليئة بالرمال والتي غالبًا ما تصاحب الطقس الأكثر حرارة كانت محجوبة بواسطة جدران سميكة من الطوب اللبن لعدة قرون.

تجمع المياه العذبة.
المرطبات خلال زيارتنا للمدينة القديمة.

لسوء الحظ ، فإن الحرفيين البارعين الذين أنشأوا المدينة وقاموا بصيانتها قديماً في يوم من الأيام نجد أحفادهم اليوم يعانون الآن من نقص في الدعم . التقاليد فى حد ذاتها غير قادرة على إعالة نفسها دون أن يعمل الناس على إستقبالها واحتضانها ومن ثم تمريرها إلى الأجيال اللاحقة ، و خلال الفيضانات الغزيرة في عام 2017 ، تعرضت العديد من المنازل في المدينة القديمة لأضرار لم يتم إصلاحها بعد .

إنالسبب الرئيسي في بناء المدينة ومصدر قوتها ينبع من مادة واحدة أساسية : الماء ، شهدنا ذلك حين زرنا نبع الواحة ، كان كبيراً لدرجة أنه يبدو كبحيرة. من تلك البركة المركزية ، تم توزيع المياه العذبة عبر سلسلة من القنوات الصغيرة التى تعمل بنظام دقيق لسقاية البساتين المحيطة بأشجار النخيل ، وكذلك للمنازل والمساجد التى تملاء المدينة ، كان منطق هذا النظام مشابهًا للطريقة التي تم بها استدامة التجارة من غدامس عبر مساحات شاسعة من الصحراء: كلاهما يتطلب شبكة مستدامة خلال الجهد المستمر للمجتمع ، كما تعلمنا المزيد حول كيفية توزيع البريد على مدى آلاف الأميال ، وكيف تتدفق المياه من المصدر إلى البستان ، وكيف تميزت المنازل الفردية بالعدد والعمارة والإيقونات والمنمنات الفريدة ، وكيف تطور المخطط الحضري للمدينة القديمة وتوسع ، تم تذكيرنا بأن أيًا من هذا لم يكن ممكنًا بدون نسيج اجتماعي متماسك ودائم تعززه التقاليد غير المادية .

أثناء فعاليات الورشة ، احتفلنا بغداء تقليدي مكون من “الفتات” ، وهي وجبة “من القطع الصغيرة”. تم تقطيع الخبز المستدير الرقيق إلى قطع صغيرة ، مع بزيت الزيتون والتوابل ومغطى بمغارف مليئة بمرق لحم الضأن. أصر مضيفونا على أن نستمر في تناول المزيد.

اتفقنا جميعًا على أننا سعداء جدًا للقيام بدورنا للحفاظ على الموروث الثقافى الرائع والمميز لمدينة غدامس .

A History of ASOR: 1970’s to the Present

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A History of ASOR: The 1970’s to the Present

By Meagan Shirley and Joe D. Seger[/vc_column_text][mk_divider][vc_wp_text]The last article on ASOR’s history concluded with the foundation of ACOR and the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research. This article encompasses ASOR’s history from the 1970’s to the present.

The Jerusalem school was named the W. F. Albright Institute in 1970, but the transfer of property title from ASOR to the AIAR Board occurred only in the mid-1990’s. Between 1970 and 1990 ASOR continued to provide support in its budget for each of the overseas centers as the Boards of the centers worked their way to independence. ASOR’s offices in the United States assumed responsibility for the entire organization’s administrative and academic activities. ASOR had central offices at Yale and elsewhere from much earlier which assumed responsibility for administration.

The Jerusalem School, now the home of AIAR, ca. 1930

Beginning in 1966, ASOR made its home at the Harvard Semitic Museum under the leadership of President G.E. Wright. ASOR maintained offices in Cambridge until the appointment of James A. Sauer in 1982, who worked at the University of Pennsylvania. The appointment of Sauer as ASOR President prompted another move to Philadelphia where ASOR took up residence at 4243 Spruce Street. During its tenure in Philadelphia, ASOR thrived due to its close proximity to the university. In 1984 in conjunction with the University Museum, ASOR received an NEH Grant to fund Summer Institutes in Near Eastern Archaeology. These consisted of summer programs taught by ASOR members and leading scholars in the field of archaeology.

The James F. Strange Center, ASOR’s new home in Alexandria, VA.

Following a six-year tenure at Johns Hopkins University, ASOR moved to Boston University in 1996. 656 Beacon Street in Boston remained the home of ASOR for 20 years until Boston University decided to sell the building in which ASOR was located. A New Office Committee was formed and headed by Board Chair Richard Coffman to decide what the best course of action should be for ASOR. It was determined that would be to, “purchase a facility to serve as ASOR’s permanent and independent home. The Board has also determined, again through extensive discussion and through site visits, that the optimal location for our new office is in the Washington, D.C., area” (Ackerman 2018).For the first time in ASOR’s history, the organization is independent of the various universities’ complimentary office space. Through the generous donations of our membership, ASOR was able to purchase an office space outside of Washington, D.C. in Alexandria, VA. This new building was named the James F. Strange Center in honor of longtime member and trustee, Jim Strange. The Strange Center was purchased through a rigorous campaign to raise the funds to purchase the office. Through the generous donations of our membership, ASOR was able to raise the full cost of ASOR’s new home.

Beginning with its time in Philadelphia, ASOR greatly expanded its scope, including new Cultural Heritage Initiatives, expanding oversight of excavation practices, increasing scholarship opportunities for students to travel to the field, and focusing on the dissemination of scholarly research through the Annual Meeting. Meetings had taken place intermittently throughout the 1960s and 1970s in conjunction with other organizations, primarily the Society for Biblical Literature (SBL). ASOR continued meeting with SBL until 1997 when it was decided through a membership meeting the previous year in New Orleans to hold an independent meeting. The 1997 Annual Meeting in Napa Valley was successful with 350 participants (Seger 2001: 68). However, it was decided to hold future meetings in the same city and time frame as the SBL conference due to the many members that attended both. ASOR has held its own Annual Meeting every year since. In 2020, ASOR had to make the difficult decision to cancel its in person meeting in Boston due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This decision was deemed necessary for the safety and well-being of ASOR’s many members. As of the writing of this article, ASOR is working to host a virtual meeting through which many scholars and researchers can still present their research. ASOR looks forward to seeing its members in-person again at the 2021 Annual Meeting in Chicago.

Sources:

Ackerman, Susan. 2018. ASOR is on the Move. Electronic Document, http://www.asor.org/news/2018/04/asor-move, accessed July 20, 2020

Meyers, Eric M. and Joe D. Seger. 2001. ASOR: A History of the American Schools of Oriental Research. In An ASOR Mosaic, edited by Joe D. Seger, pp. 2-103. American Schools of Oriental Research, Boston.[/vc_wp_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] [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Resources – K-5 – Educational Materials

EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS

K-5 Resources

 

Activities | Lesson Plans | Resources

 

Levant K-5 Resources:

 

Mesopotamia K-5 Resources:

 

Egypt K-5 Resources:

 

Roman K-5 Resources:

 

Greek K-5 Resources:

New JCS Editorial Board Announced

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THE JOURNAL OF CUNEIFORM STUDIES (JCS) EDITORIAL BOARD ANNOUNCED

[/vc_column_text][mk_divider][vc_wp_text]ASOR is pleased to announce the appointment of a new editorial board for the Journal of Cuneiform Studies (JCS). At the same time, ASOR and JCS editor Piotr Michalowski would like to offer sincere thanks to the outgoing editorial board team members—Gary Beckman (University of Michigan), Geoffrey Emberling (University of Michigan), and Matthew W. Stolper (The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago)—for many years of dedicated service to ASOR and JCS.

The new editorial team is as follows:

Piotr Michalowski (University of Michigan), Editor

Billie-Jean Collins (Lockwood Press), Managing Editor

Associate editors:

Lisa Cooper (University of British Columbia)

C. Jay Crisostomo (University of Michigan)

Eckart Frahm (Yale University)

Petra M. Goedegebuure (The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago)

Piotr Steinkeller (Harvard University)

Susanne Paulus (The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago)

Niek Veldhuis (University of California, Berkeley)

Caroline Waerzeggers (Leiden University)

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HONORIFIC & MEMORIAL GIFTS

MADE DURING FISCAL YEAR 2020 (7/1/19–6/30/20)

 

Honorific Gifts

In honor of Susan Ackerman

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum
  • Carolyn Midkiff Strange

In honor of The ASOR Staff

  • Carolyn Midkiff Strange

In honor of Stevan Dana

  • Andy and Amy Vaughn

In honor of William G. Dever

  • Michael Hasel

In honor of Helen Dixon

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum

In honor of Geoff Emberling

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum

In honor of Larry Geraty: see below under Lawrence T. Geraty Endowment

In honor of Joe Greene

  • Rev Joseph Donald Zarro

In honor of Dr. Mara T. Horowitz

  • Janet Horowitz

In honor of Norma Kershaw

  • Andy and Amy Vaughn

In honor of Oystein LaBianca

  • Aren LaBianca

In honor of Eric and Carol Meyers

  • Byron R. McCane

In honor of Barbara Porter

  • Elizabeth Gebhard

In honor of Arlene Press

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum

In honor of China Shelton

  • William S. Andreas

In honor of Carolyn Midkiff Strange

  • Joanna Strange

In honor of Allison Thomason

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum

 

Memorial Gifts

In memory of Sean Dever

  • Anonymous

In memory of Paul Eugene Dion

  • P. M. Michele Daviau

In memory of Ron Haznedi

  • Steven R. Snow

In memory of Kay Heimann

  • Carol Recker

In memory of Philip King

  • Carolyn Midkiff Strange

In memory of Rev. Dr. George M. Landes

  • Carol Landes

In memory of P.E. MacAllister

  • Susan Ackerman
  • Raymond Ewing
  • Alex and Bridget MacAllister
  • Andy and Amy Vaughn

In memory of Herbert Mason: see below under Herbert Mason Endowment
In memory of Grant Moyer

  • Lynn and Ted Dodd

In memory of Bradley J. Parker

  • Catherine Foster

In memory of Alice S. Pickering

  • Thomas R. Pickering

In memory of Anson F. Rainey

  • Andy and Amy Vaughn

In memory of Richard J. Scheuer

  • Abraham Sofaer and Marian Scheuer Sofaer

In memory of James F. Strange

  • Oded Borowski
  • Katherine Strange Burke
  • Seymour Gitin
  • Thomas R.W. Longstaff
  • Carolyn Midkiff Strange
  • Joanna Strange

In memory of Silas and Catherine Vaughn

  • Andy and Amy Vaughn

 

Gifts to Named Endowment Funds*

Stevan B. Dana Endowed Scholarship Fund

  • Stevan B. Dana

Lawrence T. Geraty Endowed Scholarship Fund

  • Robert D. Bates
  • Kent Bramlett
  • Stefanie Elkins
  • Constance Gane
  • Lawrence T. Geraty
  • Deborah Hurn
  • La Sierra University
  • Aren LaBianca
  • Oystein and Asta LaBianca
  • Julie Piller
  • Paul Ray
  • Audrey Shaffer
  • Joe D. Seger
  • Mitchell and Patsy Tyner
  • Gilbert Valentine
  • Andy and Amy Vaughn

Denise L. Gold Excavation Fund

  • Denise L. Gold

P. E. MacAllister Endowed Scholarship Fund

  • Susan Ackerman
  • Alex and Bridget MacAllister
  • Andy and Amy Vaughn

Herbert W. Mason Endowment Fund

  • Sheila T. Bishop
  • Aaron Faust
  • Nawal Nasrallah and Shakir Mustafa
  • Mark Rufo
  • Rabbi Yosef Wosk

Eric and Carol Meyers Endowed Scholarship Fund

  • Eric and Carol Meyers

Strange/Midkiff Families Endowed Scholarship Fund

  • Katherine Strange Burke
  • Thomas R.W. Longstaff
  • Joanna Strange

 

* Please note that this list only contains gifts to these named funds made during Fiscal Year 2020

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ASOR Awardee Spotlight: Larry Geraty

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AWARDEE SPOTLIGHT: LARRY GERATY

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Larry Geraty receives the Harris Award from Honors & Awards Chair, Laura Mazow.

At the 2019 ASOR Annual Meeting in San Diego, Larry Geraty received 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.

Lawrence (Larry) T. Geraty, President Emeritus, Director of the Foundation Board and Associate Director of the Center for Near Eastern Studies at La Sierra University, has been engaged with Near Eastern archaeology and with ASOR and its affiliate schools for more than five decades. In this time, he has taken on leadership roles as ASOR President from 2002 to 2006 and by serving on the ASOR Board through 2016 and acting as an Honorary Trustee since then. Larry has also served as ACOR trustee (1976-2002), Secretary-Treasurer (1983) and vice-president (1993). The creation of the newly endowed ASOR Lawrence T. Geraty Community Archaeology Endowment will heighten awareness of cultural heritage by engaging and facilitating partnerships with local communities in heritage protection and community archaeology. This new initiative will serve as a model for ways that archaeologists working in the Near East and Mediterranean region can partner with local communities to their mutual benefit. For Larry’s long-term affiliation, service and support for ACOR, ASOR and AIAR, and his life-long accomplishments in archaeology, he is awarded the Charles U. Harris Service Award.

“It was a privilege for me to serve ASOR during a difficult bridge-time between its glorious past and very successful present.  Any contributions I have made were in the context of a team effort with talented colleagues whose friendship and support I’ll always cherish.”  Appreciatively, Larry

Geraty chats with colleagues after receiving the Harris Award.

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