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Welcome to Insights! Long our quarterly e-update, beginning in 2020, Insights is now a revised platform to host all of ACOR’s blog posts, web-based articles, recorded lectures, and other digital products. Everything at Insights is free and open access. Please share widely!

“Open Jordanian Heritage”: Wikimedians Share Stories of Editing Online

Aug 9, 2020 Posted in Insights, Library Tagged with Archives, Cultural Heritage, Event, Library, Public Programs, students, Volunteers, Wikipedia

A key part of ACOR’s mission is to “promote archaeological research, cultural heritage preservation, and knowledge-sharing through lectures, digital resources, publications, workshops, and training programs.” Over the past year, we have expanded our knowledge-sharing activities online through engagement with the world’s largest open-access knowledge repository: Wikipedia. Articles on wikipedia.org—about any number of subjects, and in…

Jordan’s Tourism Sector in the Wake of COVID-19: Where Do We Go From Here?

Jul 15, 2020 Posted in Insights

by Nizar Al Adarbeh, Starling Carter, Hussein Khirfan, and Shatha Abu Aballi, USAID SCHEP* Steady Growth and Increasing Opportunities: The Tourism Sector in Jordan In recent years, Jordan’s tourism industry has grown steadily to become one of the most important sectors for the country’s employment and GDP. Jordan’s World Heritage Sites, including Petra and Wadi…

“Sustainability at the Margins” in Jordan – Notes from an Ecologist

Jul 14, 2020 Posted in Insights Tagged with FDS

by Marjolein Schat, Ph.D. As an ecologist who teaches a wide array of biology and environmental science courses, I was intrigued by the announcement for “Jordan: Sustainability at the Margins,” an ACOR-CAORC faculty development seminar. CAORC’s summary about the importance of bringing a global perspective to the classroom resonated with me, the topic sounded like…

Nabataeans on the Shores of the Dead Sea

Jun 22, 2020 Posted in Insights, Lecture, VideoLectures Tagged with dead sea, excavation, History, lecture, lecture recording, nabataean, nabatean culture, preservation, public lecture, south, southern jordan

ACOR Proudly Presents:“Nabataeans on the Shores of the Dead Sea”An ACOR Public Lecture by Dr. Konstantinos D. Politis on March 10, 2020 About the Lecture: Ancient sites that have recently come to light on the Dead Sea littoral reveal what life was like for the average Nabataean some two thousand years ago. Ancient texts also…

The Movement to Abolish Article 308: A Brief Reflection on Women’s Activism in Amman, Jordan

Jun 15, 2020 Posted in Insights

by Josephine Chaet, ACOR-CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellow 2019 Since returning to my home institution in 2019, following almost two years of intermittent fieldwork in Jordan, I have slowly begun the process of analyzing the ethnographic data collected over sixteen months of research with three non-governmental women’s organizations located in the urban core of Amman. This endeavor…

Exploring the tourism development landscape in Aqaba

May 15, 2020 Posted in ACOR, Fellows, Fellowships, Research Tagged with anthropology, ASOR, research, tourism

Kimberly Cavanagh was a Fulbright Scholar (2019–2020) residing at ACOR while undertaking research to complete her book manuscript exploring tourism development in Aqaba, with the working title “Shifting Landscapes: The Social and Economic Development of Aqaba, A Red Sea City.” Dr. Cavanagh is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Carolina Beaufort…

The ACOR Photo Archive: Mobilizing Digital Tools to Preserve Visual Heritage

May 12, 2020 Posted in ACOR, Lecture, Library, VideoLectures Tagged with Archaeology, archive, Archives, archivist, History, lecture, lecture recording, Library, photo archive, public lecture, research

للتنويه: هنا يتوفر محاضرة توجيهية عن أرشيف أكور باللغة العربية ACOR Proudly Presents:“The ACOR Photo Archive: Mobilizing Digital Tools to Preserve Visual Heritage”An ACOR Public Lecture by Dr. Jack Green and Jessica Holland on February 11, 2020 About the Lecture: The ACOR Photo Archive contains rich collections of tens of thousands of photographs, but its…

Cosmetic Adornment during the Iron Age in the Southern Levant

Apr 30, 2020 Posted in ACOR, Fellows, Fellowships, Named Fellowships, Profile, Research Tagged with Archaeology, ASOR, Bikai Fellowship, Fellows

A Pierre and Patricia Bikai Fellowship at ACOR was awarded to Betty Adams for spring 2020. She is a graduate student in Near Eastern Archaeology at La Sierra University in Riverside, California, where her studies have concentrated on the chemistry and composition of ancient makeup as represented by traces remaining on artifacts from ancient Jordan….

Religious Change in Southern Jordan in the Byzantine and Islamic Periods

Apr 23, 2020 Posted in ACOR, Lecture, VideoLectures Tagged with Archaeology, History, lecture, lecture recording, public lecture, research

ACOR Proudly Presents: “Religious Change in Southern Jordan in the Byzantine and Islamic Periods” An ACOR Public Lecture by Dr. Robert Schick on December 10, 2019 About the Lecture: In the first centuries AD, everybody in the area of Jordan south of the Wadi Mujib were devotees of some Nabataean or Roman religion or another….

“Jordan: Sustainability at the Margins” | Looking back at the 2020 ACOR-CAORC Faculty Development Seminar

Apr 10, 2020 Posted in ACOR, CAORC, Hostel, SCHEP, Uncategorized Tagged with FDS

By Jacqueline Salzinger, Development and Communications Officer In January 2020, ACOR kicked off the new decade in the company of twelve faculty members visiting Jordan from the U.S. They were joining us for just over two weeks through a program put on in partnership with the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) under the…

The unexpected discovery of Khirbet Qazone and the revealing of Nabataeans on the shores of the Dead Sea

Feb 27, 2020 Posted in ACOR, CAORC, Fellows, Fellowships, Research Tagged with Archaeology, ASOR, Fellows

Konstantinos D. Politis is an ACOR-CAORC Post-Doctoral Fellow and chairperson of the Hellenic Society for Near Eastern Studies. As part of his fellowship he will be giving a public presentation on his findings from archaeological fieldwork at Khirbet Qazone. In this blog, he provides a background to his work at this important Nabataean site. Dr….

Christine Sargent, NEH Fellow, Spring 2020

Feb 14, 2020 Posted in ACOR, Fellows, Fellowships, NEH, Profile, Research Tagged with anthropology, ASOR, Fellows

Christine Sargent is the Spring 2019–2020 ACOR-NEH fellow and an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado Denver. During her ACOR fellowship, Dr. Sargent will be working on her first ethnographic monograph, which is based on her Ph.D. dissertation. Dr. Sargent began research for this project in 2013–2014, with support from the University…

ACOR Supports Jordanian Researchers: Dr. Sahar al Khasawneh Presents at 2019 ASOR Meeting

Feb 6, 2020 Posted in ACOR, Fellows, Fellowships, Research, أكور بالعربي Tagged with Arabic, Arabic language, Archaeology, Fellows, Jordanian scholars

المقال باللغة العربية في أسفل الصفحة Every year ACOR funds travel scholarships for two Jordanian researchers to attend the annual meeting of ASOR (American Schools of Oriental Research). Sahar al Khasawneh, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology at Yarmouk University in Jordan is an awardee of a Jordanian Travel Scholarship to attend…

Bilal Al Burini’s Conservation Efforts of the Jerash Sarcophagus

Dec 15, 2019 Posted in ACOR, ACOR Interns, Fellows, Fellowships, Named Fellowships, Research, أكور بالعربي Tagged with Arabic language, Archaeology, named fellowship, Sauer Fellowship

By Bilal Al Burini المقال باللغة العربية في أسفل الصفحة In 2003, the discovery of a Byzantine era lead coffin in the village of Jerash caused a wave of excitement throughout the region, especially for historians and archaeologists, but also for Jerash locals looking forward to the influx of tourists who may want to see…

The Archaeology of Olive Oil: New Excavations at Khirbet Ghozlan in the Wadi Ar-Rayyan

Dec 11, 2019 Posted in Lecture, VideoLectures Tagged with Archaeology, James Fraser, lecture, lecture recording, olive oil, olive press, public lecture, research, Sydney

ACOR Proudly Presents: “The Archaeology of Olive Oil: New Excavations at Khirbet Ghozlan in the Wadi Ar-Rayyan” A public lecture at ACOR delivered by Dr. James Fraser on October 30, 2019 About the Lecture: In the mid 3rd millennium BCE, people abandoned their fortified “urban” settlements and dispersed across the countryside into small village sites….

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