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A Passion for Petra’s Archaeology – An Interview with TWLCRM Alum Ahmad Hasanat
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TWLCRM Initiative Earns Top Honor
ACOR’s Temple of the Winged Lions Cultural Resource Management (TWLCRM) Initiative received the Archaeological Institute of America’s 2015 award for Best Practices in Site Preservation in January of this year. Christopher Tuttle, Executive Director of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers and former Associate Director of ACOR, received the award on behalf of the…
“Egypt and the Levant in the Early Bronze Age” by Dr. Matthew J. Adams
Egypt and the Levant in the Early Bronze Age: Implications of a New Radiocarbon Chronology Dr. Matthew J. Adams Director of the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem Tuesday 27 January 2015 at 6:00pm Reception to Follow About the Lecture In a series of recent studies, new radiocarbon dates were offered in support…
Mary Pancoast
Mary Pancoast, 2014–2015 CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellow Mary Pancoast was a lawyer for civil and human rights programs in the U.S. and she worked with recent immigrants and immigrants with refugee status before returning to higher education to receive a Ph.D. in Anthropology. She became interested in the American legal policies concerning resettlement of refugees from…
“Pipe Dreams and Paradise: The Water System of the Petra Garde and Pool Complex” by Dr. Leigh-Ann Bedal
Pipe Dreams and Paradise: The Water System of the Petra Garden and Pool Complex Dr. Leigh-Ann Bedal ACOR-CAORC Fellow and Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Behrend College of the Pennsylvania State University Wednesday 29 October 2014 at 6:00pm Reception to Follow About the Lecture Visitors to Petra are characteristically amazed by its immense scale,…
Patrick Adamiak
Patrick Adamiak, 2013–2014 CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellow Patrick Adamiak was an ACOR pre-doctorate fellow conducting research in Jordan until December 2014. He is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, San Diego in the Department of History. Patrick’s interest in the history of the Modern Middle East brought him to the region. Throughout his fellowship…
Micaela Sinibaldi
Micaeala Sinibaldi, 2013–2014 Fellow Profile Micaela Sinibaldi has been a friend of ACOR since 1994. That was when she first came to Jordan with the University of Florence (Italy) to work in archaeology in Petra. Years later, while conducting excavations in Petra, her colleagues advised her to apply for an ACOR fellowship. She was awarded…
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, 2013–2014 Bikai Fellow
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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…