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Fieldwork Report: Mandy Porter

Team photo of Trench Q, Kissonerga-Skalia 2025.

Archaeology in Prehistoric Cyprus Rocks Mandy Porter, 2025 Strange/Midkiff Families Scholarship Recipient Kissonerga-Skalia is a Bronze Age settlement on the western coast of Cyprus, 10km north of Paphos. The site […]

Mesopotamian Fellowship Report: Aqeel Al-Mansrawi

Fig 4. The temple and other buildings of Umal_Agarib from satellite imagery.

Before the Catastrophe: The Archaeological Sites in Northern Nasiriya Province Threatened by Climate Change Aqeel Al-Mansrawi, State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, Iraq, Mesopotamian Fellowship Recipient Abstract A Mesopotamian Fellowship […]

2026 Grant & Fellowship Awardees

2026 PROJECT GRANT AND RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP AWARDEES Grants for Archaeological Projects: $70,000 awarded Stevan B. Dana Project Grants: $25,000 awarded Çağlayan Bal (University of Chicago) Toprakkale Archaeological Survey Project Eva […]

Collections Fellowship Report: Laura Alvarez

Copper-alloy mirrors from the collections of the Louvre Museum (photograph: Laura Alvarez).

Laura Alvarez, recipient of ASOR’s 2025 Study of Collections Fellowship, examines ancient Near Eastern concepts of identity through museum collections, analyzing mirrors from Mesopotamia and the Levant to explore how ideas of self and social relationships were expressed in the Bronze Age.

Fieldwork Report: Amiella Musser

Amiella Musser, an undergraduate student at Dickinson College, received a 2025 ASOR Stevan B. Dana Fieldwork Scholarship to excavate at Tel Azekah in Israel.

President’s Report to ASOR Members

President’s Report to ASOR Members May 18, 2026 Dear ASOR Friends, May was an exceptionally busy month for ASOR’s Board and Committees. I write this letter as part of an […]

Appeal from ASOR’s Board Chair

Appeal from ASOR’s Board Chair May 15, 2026 Dear ASOR Friends, For 125 years, ASOR has been at the forefront of research on the cultures and history of the Near […]

ECS Research in Action: Dr. Leilani Lucas

Early Career Scholars Research in Action: Dr. Leilani Lucas Archaeology in Action: Reconstructing Culinary Practices in Prehistoric Cyprus from Charred Food Remains Join ASOR’s Early Career Scholars on May 29, […]

Fieldwork Report: Joshua Feland

Adventure in a Nabatean Town Joshua Feland, 2025 Eric and Carol Meyers Fieldwork Participation Scholarship Recipient In southern Jordan lies Humayma, an extensive archaeological site with a complicated history. The […]