UNEARTHING THE PAST SINCE 1900

2025 PROJECT GRANT AND RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP AWARDEES

Photos of 2025 grant and fellowship awardees

Grants for Archaeological Projects: $61,650 awarded

Stevan B. Dana Project Grants: $15,000 awarded
  • Silvia Amicone (University of Tübingen) Rediscovering Ancient Clay Landscapes: Geological Prospection for Pottery Making in the Mosul Dam Region
  • Kathryn Grossman (North Carolina State University) Makounta-Voules Archaeological Project
  • Elise Laugier (Utah State University) Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey
Stevan B. Dana Project Grants for Israel: $15,000 awarded
  • Zachary Dunseth (University of California San Diego) Early Desert Cities: An Investigation into 3rd Millennium BCE Urbanism at the Macro- and Microscales
  • Gregg Gardner (University of British Columbia) and Orit Peleg-Barkat (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) The Horvat Midras (Israel) Archaeological Project
  • Kathryn Gleason (Cornell University) and Barbara Burrell (University of Cincinnati) Promonotory Palace Project at Caesarea Maritima
Charles Harris Project Grants: $10,000 awarded
  • Jacob Lauinger and Zeynep Türker (Johns Hopkins University) Tell Atchana/Alalakh Excavations
  • Claire Padovani (CNRS Archéorient) Crafting Landscape: Resources Exploitation and Production Strategies in Iraqi Kurdistan during Urbanisation and State Formation (CraftLand)
Joe D. Seger Grant: $2,500 awarded
  • Hanna Erfetnbeck (Colgate University) and Natalia Handziuk (University of Notre Dame) Tall al-Handaquq South Archaeological Project
Shepard Urgent Action Grants: $11,150 awarded
  • Khaled Abu Jayyab (University of Toronto) The Tell ‘Arna Site Preservation Initiative
  • Tiffany Earley-Spadoni (University of Central Florida) Conservation of Middle Bronze Age Cuneiform Tablets from Kurd Qaburstan
  • Julia Nikolaus, Nick Ray (Ulster University), and Ahmad Emrage (University of Benghazi)  The Al Haniyah Emergency Documentation Project
Lawrence T. Geraty Community Archaeological Grants: $8,000 awarded
  • Madaba Regional Archaeological Museum Project
  • Tourism Development at Tall Hisban

Research Fellowships: $22,000 awarded in 2025

Study of Collections Fellowships: $4,000 awarded
  • Laura Alvarez (University of Cambridge) Me and We in the Mirror. A Study of Self and Other from Mesopotamia to the Levantine Coast during the Fourth and Second Millennia BCE
  • Erin Darby (University of Tennessee) Missing Ritual Objects from the Nelson Glueck Excavations of Kheleifeh
Herbert Warren Mason Fellowship: $5,000 awarded
  • Nicholas Gill (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) The Celestial Scorpion: A Renegade Constellation in Early Mesopotamia
Mesopotamian Fellowship: $13,000 awarded
  • Ella Egberts (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) The Iraqi Western Desert PLACES Project: Pleistocene LAndsCapes and Early human behavior in the Shbicha region
  • Aqeel Al-Mansrawi (State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, Iraq) Before the Catastrophe: The archaeological sites in northern of Nasiriya province Threatened by Climate Change

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