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Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, 2013–2014 Bikai Fellow

Sep 21, 2014 Posted in Fellows, Profile

Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky is a Ph.D. candidate in Ottoman and Modern Middle Eastern History at Stanford University. He held the Pierre and Patricia Bikai Fellowship at ACOR in August and September 2014. His work in Jordan was the first part of a 13-month research expedition that includes archival research in Turkey, Bulgaria, Georgia, Russia, and the…

Tracey Eckersley

Sep 21, 2014 Posted in Fellows, Profile Tagged with MacDonald-Sampson Fellowship

Tracey Eckersley, 2013-14 Burton Macdonald and Rosemarie Sampson Fellow Tracey Eckersley was awarded the Burton MacDonald and Rosemarie Sampson Fellowship and was a scholar-in-residence at ACOR in the summer of 2014. While there, Tracey completed the research for her Ph.D. in Byzantine Art and Architecture at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, which she expects…

Alex Brey

Sep 21, 2014 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, Profile

Alex Brey, 2014–2015 CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellow Alex Brey is an ACOR-CAORC pre-doctorate fellow who is enrolled in a Ph. D. program in the Department of Art History at Bryn Mawr College in Philadelphia. A few years ago, Alex came to Jordan while writing his masters thesis on the renowned Ummayyad Palace known Qasr Mshatta. At…

Emanuela Bocancea

Sep 21, 2014 Posted in Fellows, Profile Tagged with MacDonald-Sampson Fellowship

Emmanuela Bocancea, 2014–2015 Burton MacDonald & Rosemarie Sampson Fellow Emanuela Bocancea was awarded the Burton MacDonald and Rosemarie Sampson Fellowship and was a scholar in residence at ACOR in the spring of 2014. Emanuela is completing research for her anticipated Ph.D. degree in Archaeology at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World at…

“Glimpses into Nabataean Culture” by Dr. David Graf

Sep 17, 2014 Posted in CAORC, Lecture, NEH Tagged with david graf, graf, Inscriptions, lecture, nabatean culture, september

Inscriptions and Rock Art from Jabal Manshir (from David F. Graf, Rome and the Arabian Frontier: From the Nabataeans to the Saracens [1997], p. 307)

Glimpses into Nabatean Culture and Society based on Inscriptions from the Hisma (Southern Jordan) Dr. David Graf NEH Fellow, ACOR-CAORC Fellow & Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Miami Wednesday 17 September 2014 at 6:00 pm Reception to Follow About the Lecture: From the perspective of their architecture and sculpture at Petra,…

David Graf

Aug 3, 2014 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, NEH, Profile

Fellow David Graf (NEH & CAORC) 2013-14 David Graf has taught at the University of Miami since 1986 as a specialist in the history and archaeology of the Greco-Roman Near East. He is the author of Rome’s Arabian Frontier from the Nabataeans to the Saracens (1997), an associate editor of the multi-volume Anchor Bible Dictionary…

“A New Monumental Latin Inscription from ‘Ayn Gharandal” by Drs. Robert and Erin Darby

Jun 3, 2014 Posted in Lecture Tagged with Archaeology, ayn gharandal, darby, erin darby, inscription, june, lecture, robert darby

Inscripted block (lower right) as found in 'Ayn Gharandal gate area. Photo Darby 2013.

Words in the Sand: A New Monumental Latin Inscription from ‘Ayn Gharandal Dr. Robert Darby & Dr. Erin Darby University of Tennessee Tuesday 3 June 2014 at 6:00pm Reception to Follow About the Lecture On 17 June 2013, the ‘Ayn Gharandal Archaeological Project discovered a monumental imperial Latin inscription in the ruins of the Late…

“The Ad-Deir Monument and Plateau in Petra” by Dr. Cynthia Finlayson

Apr 29, 2014 Posted in Lecture Tagged with ad-deir, april, Archaeology, cynthia finlayson, drone mapping, finlayson, lecture, Petra

Aerial image of the Ad-Deir Monument, the Great Circles, and the ancient entrance to the Ad-Deir temenos behind the current store,taken in 2013 from 300 meters height by the GATEWING X100. Courtesy the Ad-Deir Monument and Plateau Project.

The Ad-Deir Monument and Plateau in Petra: UAV/Drone Mapping and New Theories Concerning Functions and Importance Dr. Cynthia Finlayson Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Brigham Young University Tuesday 29 April 2014 at 6:00pm Reception to Follow About the Lecture Dr. Finlayson is leading the Ad-Deir Monument and Plateau Project to map scientifically the Monastery at…

“Western Christian Pilgrims to the Holy Land” by Dr. Robert Schick

Mar 19, 2014 Posted in Lecture Tagged with Archaeology, christian pilgrims, lecture, march, ottoman period, robert schick, schick

Heinrich Wölfli arriving in Jerusalem in 1520. (Heinrich Wölflis Reise nach Jerusalem 1520/1521. Edited by Hans Bloesch. Bern: Die Schweizer Bibliophilen Gesellschaft, 1929).

Western Christian Pilgrims to the Holy Land in the Early Ottoman Period Dr. Robert Shick Independent Scholar, Author, and Ongoing ACOR Publication Fellow Wednesday 19 March 2014 at 6:00pm Reception to Follow About the Lecture This talk will examine the varied experiences of some Western Christian pilgrims who traveled to the Holy Land during the…

Elias Saba

Mar 11, 2014 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, Profile

Elias Saba, 2013–2014 CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellow Elias Saba is an ACOR-CAORC Pre-Doctorate Fellow pursuing his research in Jordan between January and May of 2014. He is currently researching the development in Islamic legal-theoretical thinking during the 12th-15th centuries, specifically looking at the genres of lexical and legal distinctions. Lexical distinctions refer to the lexical differences…

Theresa Dazey

Mar 11, 2014 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, Profile

Theresa Dazey, 2013–2014 CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellow Theresa Dazey is an ACOR-CAORC Pre-Doctorate Fellow pursuing her research in Jordan between September 2013 and February 2014. Theresa studies the settlement of Circassian communities in the late 19th century, especially their relations with already-established Jordanian communities. Much of her research is conducted through informal interviews with the descendants…

Christian C. Sahner

Mar 11, 2014 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, Profile

Christian Sahner, 2013–2014 CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellow Christian C. Sahner is an ACOR-CAORC Pre-Doctorate Fellow pursuing research in Jordan between June and August 2014. He is completing his Ph.D. in the Department of History at Princeton on the Christian neomartyrs of the early Islamic period. Christian studies Byzantine history, the transition from late antiquity to the…

“The Late Neolithic Colonization of the Eastern Badia” by Dr. Gary Rollefson

Feb 25, 2014 Posted in Lecture Tagged with black desert, colonization, eastern badia, february, gary rollefson, lecture, rollefson

The Late Neolithic Colonization of the Eastern Badia Dr. Gary Rollefson Professor of Anthropology, Whitman College ACOR-CAORC Senior Fellow Tuesday 25 February 2014 at 6:00pm Reception to Follow About the Lecture Unprecedented population growth, environmental degradation, and a reduction of rainfall by the end of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) period (c. 8,700-7,000 BC) resulted…

“A Kinder, Greener Black Desert” by Dr. Gary Rollefson

Feb 25, 2014 Posted in Lecture Tagged with black desert, february, gary rollefson, lecture, neolithic, rollefson

A Kinder, Greener Black Desert: Results of Archaeological Research of Neolithic Sites Dr. Gary Rollefson Professor of Anthropology, Whitman College ACOR-CAORC Senior Fellow Tuesday 25 February 2014, 6:00 pm Reception to Follow About the Lecture: Passing through the Black Desert in northeastern Jordan, one is struck by the lifeless and forbidding character of the landscape….

“The Lives of Pots” by Dr. Morag Kersel

Jan 14, 2014 Posted in Lecture Tagged with Archaeology, dead sea plain, early bronze age, kersel, lecture, morag kersel, pots, the lives of pots

Excavated pots from the Bad Adh-Dhra Tomb (photo Kersel)

The Lives of Pots: Grave Goods, Excavated Artifacts, Looted Items, and Collected Objects from the Early Bronze Age Mortuary Sites on the Dead Sea Plain of Jordan Dr. Morag Kersel Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at DePaul University, Chicago ACOR-CAORC Senior Fellow Wednesday 29 January 2014 at 6:00pm Reception to Follow About the…

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