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2025 ASOR Honors & Awards

2025 ASOR HONORS & AWARDS   Each year at the Annual Meeting, ASOR recognizes individuals who have performed outstanding service for the organization, those who have published exceptional academic work, […]

Silent Auction at ASOR’s 125th Anniversary Celebration

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Fieldwork Report: Aleyna Uyanik

Me in the field carrying our GNSS. (Photography: Ayse Ozaydin)

Dusty, Sweaty but very Happy! Aleyna Uyanik, 2025 Katherine Barton Platt Fellowship Recipient.  Spending the summer in Marmaris with the Phoenix Archaeological Project has been nothing short of incredible. The […]

Final Week: October Webinar Challenge

Shamash Gate at Nineveh

Final Week: October Webinar Challenge Each year, ASOR offers a series of fascinating Friends of ASOR webinarsthat are free to the public. In order to keep this program running and […]

Fieldwork Report: Andrew Rivadeneira

Floating in the Adriatic Andrew Victor Rivadeneira, 2025 Katherine Barton Platt Fieldwork Scholarship Recipient  After 3 years of excavations at the hillfort Gradina Rat on Brač Island in Croatia, this […]

Collections Fellowship Report: Erin Darby

Missing Ritual Objects from the Nelson Glueck Excavations of Kheleifeh in the ASOR Archives at the American Heritage Center Erin Darby, University of Tennessee, 2025 Study of Collections Fellowship Recipient […]

2025 Nominees for ASOR Board Elections

2025 NOMINEES FOR ASOR BOARD ELECTIONS Trustee Nominations Committee has selected six highly qualified members to stand for election for four open positions on the Board of Trustees. The Board […]

Shepard Grant Report: Kurd Qaburstan Tablet Conservation

2025 Shepard Urgent Action Grant: Emergency Stabilization of Cuneiform Tablets and Sealings at Kurd Qaburstan: a Conservation Partnership Tiffany Earley-Spadoni (University of Central Florida) Unfired clay objects are incredibly fragile […]