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On February 25th, ASOR’s Facebook page surpassed 5,593 likes, meaning our page has nearly three times as many fans as ASOR has traditional members! The past year has been an exciting period of growth for ASOR’s social media, and in little more than a year, over 4,000 fans have followed our page. Our weekly reach (the total number of people who see content from our page, including those who have not yet begun following it) is about 9,000 viewers, and we continue to add about 25 to 50 new fans every week. The ASOR Blog, which is frequently cross-linked with our Facebook page, receives 13,000 visitors per month. Thank you for making our page so popular! If you are on Facebook and have not yet liked us, please do so! We update it regularly with a wide variety of news and announcements.
Popular news items that have been recently posted include everything from cyber-archaeology at Petra and an update on the state of Syria’s cultural heritage to a story on a hoard of over two hundred 16th and 17th century toys found in an English church.
Make sure to check in on Facebook for archaeology news, job and conference announcements, ASOR Blog posts, and occasionally fun pictures from the ASOR archives. One of the most popular features is the weekly link to Archaeology Weekly Roundup. If you have any news or other items that you would like to share, please feel free to let us know through Facebook or via email. We plan to expand our outreach in 2013, and we invite you to participate.
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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.
It’s that time of year again! March Fellowship Madness is a month-long drive to raise as many fellowship dollars as possible, so we can get more students in the field! Last year, 80 donors joined in the madness and gave over $9,000. That meant that ASOR was able to award nine additional travel scholarships! That’s nine additional scholars who were able to conduct field research and expand our knowledge of the ancient Near East. How many more students can we send to the field this year?
The William F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem is pleased to announce the winner of the twelfth annual competition for the Sean W. Dever Memorial Prize. This award offers $650 for the best published article or paper presented at a conference by a Ph.D. candidate in Syro-Palestinian or Biblical Archaeology. Authors may be of any nationality but the article or paper must be in English.
Their paper, “A Moabite-Inscribed Statue Fragment from Kerak: Possible Egyptian Parallels,” was presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research and at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, both in San Francisco.
Though Dr. Detweiler’s later career was filled with the administrative duties required by his position as president of ASOR, his love of archeology and excavating still thrived as he remained active at several different excavations. Particularly interesting is the excavation to Sardis that he led from 1958-1961 with the help of George A. Hanfmann. From this expedition, the archive offers interesting stories and helps us gain a better understanding of Sardis and President Detweiler himself.
The Sardis excavation cemented its popularity with the media as Dr. Detweiler corresponded with people from the Motion Picture Service, WGBH, Life, and National Geographic, among others, to negotitate article and film deals about the findings at Sardis. (see Telegram from Motion Picture Services at above right) Unfortunately it seems that a Sardis movie never did surface, but the magazine articles probably did appear in the end.
ASOR has grown and changed a lot in the six plus years since I was elected treasurer. One way in which we have changed is setting clear expectations for our new trustees. As a result, many of our newest trustees are providing generous financial support for ASOR that has allowed us to make investments to begin implementing our long-term strategic plan.
I actually see a lot of parallels in my business of investing in publicly traded stocks. Stocks aren’t just pieces of paper, they are businesses. A lot of my work involves research on the computer, reading annual reports and regulatory filings and getting access to numbers, numbers and more numbers. But a key part of forming a judgment on whether a business is a good business or one to avoid requires me to get out of the office, visit the company and its sites. As an example, we own stock in Bed Bath & Beyond. I imagine most of our ASOR members have shopped at Bed Bath. Well, as part of my work, I visit Bed Bath stores, talk to their store managers, experiment with ordering on their website and compare their prices to Amazon. And now, with the arrival of my first grandbaby, I am doing the same amount of due diligence on their other store concept, BuyBuy Baby.