ASOR is pleased to announce the appointment of the new editors of The Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (BASOR)—a team of four scholars from the United States and Europe. Susan Cohen of Montana State University and Regine Pruzsinszky of the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg will lead the team as co-editors. Working with them will be two associate editors: Jana Mynářová of the Charles University in Prague; and Marwan Kilani, currently a postdoc researcher associated with the Freie Universität in Berlin and the Swiss National Science Foundation. All four team members come to the position with extensive editorial experience and diverse academic backgrounds that reflect the diversity of ASOR’s membership and mandate. The editors were nominated by the BASOR Editorial Search Committee after an extensive public search process. The nomination was unanimously endorsed by ASOR’s Publications Committee, and the editors were unanimously approved by the ASOR Board of Trustees in May 2020.

The May 2020 issue of BASOR.

Susan Cohen is an archaeologist, focusing on rural-urban relations and interactions and chronological connections between Egypt and the southern Levant. Regine Pruzsinszky is an Assyriologist with a particular interest in Semitic and Hurrian onomastics, Mesopotamian chronology of the second millennium BCE, and the socio-cultural role of musicians in the Ancient Near East. Jana Mynářová is an Assyriologist and Egyptologist, focusing on political and cultural relations of Egypt and the Near East. Marwan Kilani is an Egyptologist and linguist working on cultural and linguistic interactions between Egypt and the Levant. He has a strong interest in methodological questions, and in digital humanities and computational methods applied to the study of the ancient world. BASOR editors are appointed for a three-year term, with the possibility of being re-appointed for a second term. Their initial term will run from 2021–2023.

The new editors will succeed the current co-editors, Eric Cline and Christopher Rollston, in January 2021. Those interested in publishing in BASOR should continue to submit manuscripts through the online submission system.