Each year at the Annual Meeting, ASOR recognizes individuals who have performed outstanding service for the organization, those who have published exceptional academic work, and those who made significant contributions to our field. The following award recipients were honored at the 2024 Annual Meeting in Boston and during the Members’ Meeting on November 22nd. Awards were presented by Lynn Welton, co-chair of ASOR’s Honors and Awards Committee.

The Richard J. Scheuer Medal. This award honors an individual who has provided truly outstanding, long-term support and service contributions to ASOR (this medal is awarded when such an individual is identified).

Awarded posthumously to Carolyn Midkiff Strange and James F. Strange, for their exceptional contributions and service to ASOR over many decades (presented to James R. Strange).

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 (one award is given annually).

Awarded to Ann-Marie Knoblauch, Associate Professor of Art History and Director of the School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech, for her work as ASOR Secretary, as well as her previous years of Board service.

The P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award. This award honors an archaeologist who, during his/her/their career, has made outstanding contributions to ancient Near Eastern and eastern Mediterranean archaeology (one award is given annually).

Awarded to Sturt W. Manning, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Classics, Cornell University, for his impactful contributions to the archaeology of Cyprus and the wider Near East and Eastern Mediterranean.

Community Engagement and Public Outreach Award. This award recognizes individuals, teams, and organizations who have initiated outstanding educational, informational, or practical projects (including but not limited to classes, programs, exhibits, resources, events, and platforms) with the goal of making subjects and information about the ancient world accessible to wider (particularly non-academic) audiences.

Awarded to the ELRAP (Edom Lowlands Regional Archaeology Project) Jordan Sketchfab Team, including Matthew D. Howland, Brady Liss, Ian W.N. Jones, Anthony Tamberino, Mohammad Najjar, and Thomas E. Levy, for their development of pioneering digital resources and platforms intended to present the archaeology of the Faynan region of Jordan to the general public.

ASOR Membership Service Award. This award recognizes individuals who have made special contributions on behalf of the ASOR membership, through committee, editorial, or office services.

Awarded to: Kevin McGeough, Professor of Archaeology, University of Lethbridge, for his work as Chair of the Publications Committee.

Awarded to Jane DeRose Evans, Professor of Roman Art and Archaeology and Chair of Art History, Temple University, for her work as Chair of the Cultural Heritage Committee.

Awarded to Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, Associate Professor of History, University of Central Florida, for her work as co-chair of the Early Career Scholars Committee.

The W. F. Albright Service Award. This award honors an individual who has shown special support or made outstanding service contributions to one of the overseas centers (AIAR, CAARI), or to one of the overseas committees – the Baghdad Committee and the Damascus Committee. This award is given when such an individual is identified.

Awarded to Nadia Bandak, Finance Manager at AIAR, Hisham M’Farreh, Chef and Kitchen Manager at AIAR, and Photoulla Christodoulou, Housekeeper at CAARI. Nadia and Hisham are celebrating 30 years of service at AIAR, and Photoulla is retiring next year after nearly 40 years of service at CAARI.

The G. Ernest Wright Award. This award is given to the editor/author of the most substantial volume(s) dealing with archaeological material, excavation reports and material culture from the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean. This work must be the result of original research published within the past two years (one award is given annually).

Awarded to Glenn M. Schwartz, Whiting Professor of Archaeology, Johns Hopkins University, for Animals, Ancestors, and Ritual in Early Bronze Age Syria: An Elite Mortuary Complex from Umm el-Marra, from Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press.

The Frank Moore Cross Award. This award is presented to the author/editor of the most substantial volume(s) related to the history and/or religion of the ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean. Primary consideration will be given to historical, epigraphic, textual, and comparative literary studies; or to works that advance and/or evaluate new methodological approaches to the literary record(s). This work must be the result of original research published during the past two years (one award is given annually).

Awarded to Karen Radner (Alexander von Humboldt Chair of Ancient History of the Near and Middle East, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Nadine Moeller (Professor of Egyptian Archaeology, Yale University), and D.T. Potts (Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and History, ISAW, New York University), for editing the five-volume The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East, from Oxford University Press.

The Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award. This award is presented to the author/editor of a book published in the last two years that offers a new synthesis of archaeological or textual evidence intended to reach an audience of scholars as well as students and the broader public (one award is given annually).

Awarded to Eckart Frahm, John M. Musser Professor of Assyriology, Yale University, for Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire, from Basic Books.

The Joy Ungerleider Poster Award. This award is conferred upon the author(s) of the poster presenting the results of a study about ancient Near Eastern societies in a clear, legible fashion using original graphic content. Subject matter may be based in archaeological sciences, history, anthropology, epigraphy, ethnography, heritage or other scholarly approaches to understanding ancient people in the areas covered by ASOR (one award is given annually).

Awarded to Helen C. Wong, University of Pennsylvania, and Erin M. Brantmayer, University of Texas, Austin, for the poster: “The Boundaries of Death: Outlining Mortuary Landscapes at Jebel Khalid.”

Student Paper Award. This award is conferred upon the author(s) of a paper presented during the Annual Meeting that conveys the results of a study about ancient Near Eastern and wider Mediterranean societies in a clear, understandable, and convincing fashion. The first author and presenter of the paper must be a registered student at the time of presentation in order to be eligible for consideration for this award.

Awarded to Nicole Constantine, Stanford University, for her paper “Materializing Ptolemaic Power: Ruler Cult and Festival in the Hellenistic Mediterranean”.