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CHARLES HARRIS PROJECT GRANTS

ASOR plans to award two Harris Grants of $5,000 each during 2026.

The Harris Endowment provides modest grants to worthy projects that are ASOR-affiliated, particularly to newer and smaller projects, to help them get started, and to discrete components of larger projects that can be completed with an award.

Universal Grant Application Form

Application Deadline: February 23, 2026

Previous Recipients

If you have any questions, please email Marta Ostovich.

 

Guidelines

1. Applications are restricted to directors of ASOR/CAP-affiliated projects or senior staff members of affiliated projects. Applications by staff members other than the director must be accompanied by a letter of endorsement from the project director.

2. Only one application from a single project will be considered in any given year. Awards are usually not made to the same individual or project in successive years. Only direct expenses are permitted, and no indirect or overhead may be charged.

3. Harris Project Grants are not designed to fund travel for student volunteers or junior staff members (see Scholarships for Fieldwork Participation).

4. Funds will be made available from the ASOR office, and recipients may receive a Form 1099 for the funds received. Only direct expenses are permitted, and no indirect or overhead may be charged.

Apply for ASOR Affiliation for a Project

Disclaimer: If for any reason many archaeological excavations cannot take place during 2026, ASOR may at its sole discretion decide not to offer project grants. If ASOR deems such a decision as necessary, applicants may reapply for non-fieldwork summer stipends if ASOR can offer stipends for 2026. Regrettably, applicants and successful applicants may not postpone project grants to another year if the applicant or ASOR decides that project grants will not be awarded in 2026. If the pandemic or any other reason causes a cancellation of fieldwork in 2026, applicants must reapply for funding in 2027 (or for stipends if they can be made available in 2026).

Previous Grant Recipients: $114,010 awarded

2026: $10,000 awarded
  • Carlo Ceretti, University of California-Irvine, “MAIKI, the Italian Historical-Archaeological Mission in Kurdistan”
  • Sharon Steadman, SUNY-Cortland, “Climate and Economy at Late Chalcolithic Çadır Höyük”
2025: $10,000 awarded
  1. Jacob Lauinger and Zeynep Türker, Johns Hopkins University, “Tell Atchana/Alalakh Excavations”
  2. Claire Padovani, CNRS Archéorient, “Crafting Landscape: Resources Exploitation and Production Strategies in Iraqi Kurdistan during Urbanisation and State Formation (CraftLand)”
2024: $5,000 awarded
  1. Alexander J. Smith, SUNY-Brockport, Menorca Archaeological Project
2023: $10,000 awarded
  1. Andrew Danielson, The University of British Columbia, “Khirbat al-Mukhayyat Archaeological Project”
  2. Müge Durusu-Tanriover, Temple University, “Polatlı Landscape Archaeology and Survey Project”
2022: $10,000 awarded
  1. Ian W. N. Jones, University of California-San Diego, “Balu’a Regional Archaeology Project”
  2. Rocco Palermo, University of Pisa, “Gird-i Matrab Archaeological Project”
2021: $10,000 awarded
  1. Steven Falconer, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, “Zahrat adh-Dhra’ 1: Middle Bronze Age Settlement on the Dead Sea Plain”
  2. Meghan Strong, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, “Analysis of Queen Yeturow’s paintings from the Royal Pyramids and Necropolis of Nuri”
2020: $5,000 awarded
  1. Kate Liszka, California State University, San Bernardino, “The Wadi el-Hudi Expedition“
2019: $5,000 awarded
  1. James Fraser, University of Sydney, “Khirbet Ghozlan Excavation Project”
2018: $5,000 awarded
  1. Megan Perry, East Carolina University, “Petra North Ridge Project”
2017: $5,000 awarded
  1. Bruce Routledge, University of Liverpool, “Dhiban Excavation and Development Project”
2016: $10,000 awarded
  1. Suzanne Richard, Gannon University
  2. Jennifer Gates-Foster, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2015: $3,900 awarded
  1. Oded Borowski, Emory University
  2. Lorenzo d’Alfonzo, New York University
  3. Andrea Trameri, New York University
2014: $5,350 awarded
  1. Oded Borowski, Emory University, “Lahav Research Project: Phase IV”
  2. Stephanie Brown, University of California, Berkeley, ” Documenting the Town Plan of a Levantine Capital City: A Geophysical Survey of Iron Age Busayra”
  3. Annlee Dolan, Wilfrid Laurier University, ” Khirbat al-Mukhayyat Archaeological Project”
  4. Mark Green, Johnson University, “Luminescence Dating of Samples taken at Khirbat al-Mudaybi, in Central Jordan”
  5. Brandon Olson, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, “The Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project”
  6. Steve Renette, University of Pennsylvania/University of Coimbra, “Kani Shaie Archaeological Project”
  7. Bethany Walker, University of Bonn, “Laser Mapping and Water Simulations of Subterranean Systems at Tall Hisban”
2013: $9,560 awarded
  1. Russell Adams, University of Waterloo, Canada, “Barqa Landscape Project”
  2. Darren Ashby, Boston University, “Qalaat Mudjesir Excavations”
  3. Leigh-Ann Bedal, Pennsylvania State University, The Behrend College, “Petra Garden and Pool Complex”
  4. Erin Darby and Robert Darby, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, “‘Ayn Gharandal Archaeological Project”
  5. Jennie Ebeling, University of Evansville, and Norma Franklin, University of Haifa, “Jezreel Expedition”
  6. Alan Farahani, University of California, Berkeley, “Agricultural Intensification in Late Antique Dhiban, Jordan”
  7. Michael Given, University of Glasgow, Scotland, “Excavations at Kourion’s Amathous Gate Cemetery – Kourion, Cyprus”
  8. Natalia Handziuk, University of Toronto, “Tell Madaba Archaeological Project”
  9. Morag Kersel, DePaul University, “Landscapes of the Dead: Pedestrian Site Survey at Fifa, an Early Bronze Age Cemetery on the Dead Sea Plain, Jordan”
  10. Robert Mullins, Azusa Pacific University, “The Archaeology of Borderlands: Arameans, Israelites, and Phoenicians at Abel Beth Maacah”
  11. Barbara Reeves, Queen’s University, “Humayma CBM Typology”
  12. Yorke Rowan and Austin Hill, The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, “Experimental Aerial Survey Applications to Excavations at Marj Rabba”
  13. John Rucker, University of Missouri, Kansas City, “Wadi ‘Araba Earthquake Project Qasr at Tilah Excavation”
  14. Andrew Smith, The George Washington University, “Bir Madhkur Project”

No Harris Grants were awarded from 2009-2012.

2008: $7,000 awarded
  1. Steven Falconer: “Bronze Age Rural Ecology and Landscape Formation in Cyprus”
  2. Andrew Smith: “Bir Madhkur, Jordan”
  3. Eric Cline: “Aegean Interactions with the Levant”
  4. Leigh-Ann Bedal: “Petra Garden and Pool Complex”
  5. Elizabeth S. Greene: “Iron Age Shipwreck at Kekova Asasi”
  6. Michael Given: “Kourion’s Amathus Gate Cemetery”
2007: $3,200 awarded
  1. William R. Caraher: “Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project”
  2. Nancy Lapp: “Publication of the Early Persian and Hellenistic Pottery”
  3. Jonathan Ferguson: “Salvage Excavations at Khirbat az-Zona”
  4. Garth Gilmour: “Lahav Research Project”
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