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Fieldwork Report: Helen Wong

Mapping Motya in a Day: Urbanism, Identity, and Geophysical Survey Helen Wong, 2025 Katherine Barton Platt Fellowship Recipient This summer, I joined the excavation team at Motya, a small island […]

2026 Fieldwork Opportunities Team members at Çadır Höyük, Turkey. Are you a student or volunteer looking to join an ASOR-affiliated project for fieldwork? The projects below all have fieldwork planned […]

Harris Grant Report: Alalakh/Tell Atchana

2025 Harris Grant Report: Documenting Archival Dynamics in the Late Bronze Age: A New Archive of Cuneiform Tablets from Alalakh/Tell Atchana Jacob Lauinger, Johns Hopkins University; Zeynep Türker, Johns Hopkins […]

Call for Early Career Scholars Social Media Content Creator

Early Career Scholars: Call for Social Media Content Creator 2025-2026 The Early Career Scholars (ECS) Committee is seeking part-time Social Media Content Creators. This paid position offers the opportunity to […]

Honors and Awards Committee Seeks New Members

Honors and Awards Committee Seeks New Members The Honors and Awards Committeeseeks nominations to serve on the G. Ernest Wright Book Award sub-committee. ASOR invites nominations, including self-nominations, from ASOR members […]

Fieldwork Report: Don’Neka Hayslett

Looking Beyond: Finding the New in the Old Don’Neka Hayslett, 2025 ASOR Fieldwork Scholarship Recipient On my first few days at the Cadir Höyük 2025 project, I was introduced to […]

Fieldwork Report: Yishu Deng

How Archaeology Bridges the Past and Present Yishu Deng, 2025 Eric and Carol Meyers Fieldwork Participation Scholarship Recipient After completing my MPhil in Archaeology degree at the University of Cambridge, […]

ASOR and Libyan Department of Antiquities Sign Memorandum of Understanding for Cultural Heritage Conservation

ASOR and Libyan Department of Antiquities Sign Memorandum of Understanding for Cultural Heritage Conservation The American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) is pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum […]

Spring Internships at ASOR

SPRING INTERNSHIPS AT ASOR ASOR seeks candidates for part-time internship positions to begin around mid-January. These paid internships are for the spring semester (January-May) with the possibility of renewal for […]

Fieldwork Report: Kearyn Hall

Disturbance and Discovery: Learning from Looting at Humayma Kearyn Hall, 2025 Harva L. Sheeler Fieldwork Scholarship Recipient The 2025 field school began in Amman, the capital of Jordan, where our […]