UNEARTHING THE PAST SINCE 1900
Click on a fellowship recipient’s name to read their report from the field!
*Includes fellowships formerly designated as Heritage Fellowships.
*Funds distributed to 12 Fellows
No Harris Grants were awarded from 2009-2012.
Melania Zingarello (Postdoctoral Researcher, CNRS-CEPAM): “Sacred Waterscapes and Early Urbanism at Rejibah (southern Mesopotamia): Canals, cultic landscapes, and long-term urban memory.”
Ella Egberts (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Vrije Universiteit Brussel): “The Iraqi Western Desert PLACES Project: Pleistocene LAndsCapes and Early human behavior in the Shbicha region”
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Elizabeth Gibbon (PhD Student, University of Toronto): “The Halaf-Ubaid Transition at Tepe Gawra”
Jeiran Jahani (PhD Student, Columbia University): “Animal Art: Domesticating Wild Ecologies of the First Cities”
Christine Mikeska (PhD Student, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): “Feeding the City, Feeding the Gods: Animal Economies at Bronze Age Hattuša”
Yalda Razmahang (PhD Student, Maison d’Orient, Lyon): “Assessing Community Perspectives on Cultural Heritage in post-ISIS Iraq: The Case of Ashur”
Elise Jakoby Laugier (PhD Student, Dartmouth College): “Shakhi Kura: A 4th millennium BC site in the Upper Diyala (Iraqi Kurdistan)”
Sara Pizzimenti (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Sapienza University of Rome): “From the 4th Millennium to the 3rd Millennium BC in Southern Mesopotamia. The Late Uruk-Early Dynastic I Sequence of Area A at Tell Zurghul/Nigin”
Steven Renette (PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania): “Documenting Threatened Archaeological Heritage in the Bazyan Basin, Sulaimaniyah (Iraqi Kurdistan)”
Tiffany Earley-Spadoni (Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida): “New Foundations: a Comparative Study of the Creation of Neo-Assyrian and Urartian Landscapes”
Stephanie Rost (Post-Doctoral Fellow, The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago): “Ancient State Economies: The Case Study of the Umma Province of the Ur III State (2112-2004 B.C.”
Agnete Wisti Lassen (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Yale University): “Glyptic Encounters: A Stylistic and Social Study of the Seal Impressions from the Šalim‐Aššur Archive”
Antonietta Catanzariti (Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Berkeley): “Landscape and Settlement Survey of the Qara Dagh Valley (Iraqi-Kurdistan)”
Abdulameer Al-Dafar (Ph.D. Candidate, SUNY Stony Brook): “Integration between town, village and marsh: Settlement system and Socio-economic relationships between small and large sites in the Eridu Basin during the early second millennium BCE”
Dr. James Osborne (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University): “The Iron Age Diaspora: Forced Resettlement in the Near East, 900-600 B.C.E.”
C. Jay Crisostomo (Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Berkeley): “Bilingual Education at Nippur: The Exemplars at the Istanbul Archaeological Museum”
Gökçe Bike Yazicioglu (Ph.D. Candidate,University of Chicago): “Tracing the Merchants’ Trail between Assur and Kanes”
Melissa Rosenzweig (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago): “The Politics of Late Assyria’s Agricultural Practices: An Archaeobotanical Case Study from Ziyaret Tepe”
Nicole Brisch (Ph.D., University of Michigan): “The King as God: Divine Kingship in Early Mesopotamia: Isin-Larsa Period Sacrifice Lists”
Aubrey Baadsgaard (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania): “The Social Social Dynamics of Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia “
Jacob Lauinger (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago): “Unpublished Old Babylonian/Middle Bronze Age Tablets from Alalakh (Level VII), their Archival Context, and their Chronological Implications”
Sevil Baltali (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Virginia): “Domestic Architecture, Use of Space and Social Organization in Uruk period Northern Mesopotamia”
Bekir Gürdil (Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles): “Degirmentepe Social Organization and the Ubaid Period of Greater Mesopotamia”
Sarah Graff (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago): “Production and Distribution in Spatial and Historical Context: the Case of Northwestern Syria”
Jennifer Pournelle (Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, San Diego): “The Littoral Foundations of the Sumerian State: Southern Mesopotamian Alluvial Landscapes”
Jason Ur (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago): “Upper Khabur Basin Archaeological Survey”
Britt Hartenberger (Ph.D. Candidate, Boston University), supplemental fellowship (declined): “Analysis of the Organization of Household and Specialized Craft Production at Titris Höyük in the Context of Regional Chipped Stone Industries”
Seth Richardson (Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University): “The Collapse of a Complex State: The End of the Old Babylonian Period at Sippar, 1641 – 1621 B.C.E.”
Christopher Edens (Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Museum): “Technological Style and Chipped Stone: Sickle Blades and the Uruk Expansion in Southeast Turkey”
Tonia Sharlach (Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University), supplemental fellowship: “Bala: Economic Exchange between Center and Provinces in the Ur III State”
Cheryl Coursey (Ph.D. Candidate, SUNY Binghamton): “Pretty Pots for Hot Shots? Intrasite Variability in Ceramic Production and Consumption during the Halaf Period (c. 6000-5200 B.C.)”
Michael Danti (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania): “An Archaeological Survey of the Tell es-Sweyhat Region, Syria”
Kathryn Slanski (Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University): “The Form and Function of the Babylonian kudurrus”
Bradley Parker (Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles): “Economics and Empire: The Role of Commercial Interaction in Imperial Expansion on the Northern Frontier of Assyria”
Eleonora Cussini (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University): “A Paleographic Study of the Imperial Aramaic Argillary Script”
Stephen Lumsden (Ph.D., Bilkent University, Turkey): “Applications of Remote Sensing for the Study of Nineveh”
Melody Pope (Ph.D. Candidate, SUNY Binghamton): “The Economy and Organization of Chipped Stone Tool Production and Use During the Uruk and Jemdet Nasr Periods in Alluvial Mesopotamia”
Asli Ozyar (Ph.D. Candidate, Bryn Mawr College): “The Program and Context of Southeast Anatolian Relief Orthostats”
John Russell (Assistant Professor, Columbia University): “Sennacherib’s Palace: An Archaeological Test of Cuneiform Sources”
Dianna Bolt (Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Berkeley): “Archaeological and Osteological Analysis of Tell Mohammed ‘Arab Burials: A Study in Social, Occupational and Health Status”
Zainab Bahrani (Ph.D. Candidate, New York University): “The Pottery of al Hiba, Area C”
Edward M. Luby (Ph.D. Candidate, SUNY Stony Brook): “Social Class and Burial Data in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia”
Diana Stein (Harvard Semitic Museum/Oriental Institute, London): “An Archaeological and Sociological Study of the Cylinder Seal Impressions from Nuzi in Iraq”
Susan Pollock (University of Michigan): “Artifacts and Social Categories in the Royal Cemetery of Ur”
Glenn Schwartz (Ph.D., Yale University): “The Tell Leilan Sequence Applied: A Relative Chronology for Northern Mesopotamia and Syria-Palestine”
Daniel Potts
Richard L. Zettler
Yoko Tomabechi
Elizabeth Jewell
Coreitha Qualls
Norman Yoffee
Elizabeth Carter
Stephen Lieberman
Pottery Lottery: The Ancient Pottery of Israel and Its Neighbors from the Iron Age through the Hellenistic Period. Vol. 3
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