Insights

Welcome to Insights! Formerly our long-running quarterly e-update, since 2020, Insights has been our blog, hosting essays by fellows, interns, staff, and others.

“Continuity and Change in Mortuary Customs” a public lecture

Mar 13, 2018 Posted in Lecture, News & Event Tagged with Archaeology, burial practices

A public lecture Continuity and change in mortuary customs: the Jordan Valley in the second and first millennia BC A lecture given by Dr. John (Jack) D.M. Green ACOR Associate Director Wednesday April 18, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. About the Lecture: Throughout human history there have been elaborate and simple ways to assist…

Celebrating HRH Prince Raad Bin Zeid

Mar 7, 2018 Posted in Library, Life@ACOR Tagged with 50th anniversary, ACOR History, Celebration, HRH Prince Raad bin Zeid, Library

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”60948″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text] On January 10, 2018 a celebration was held at ACOR to honor HRH Prince Raad Bin Zeid and to inaugurate a year of events to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of ACOR. We share below some of our favorite photos from that evening. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] HRH Prince Raad has been First Vice…

ACOR Strategic Planning Survey

Mar 3, 2018 Posted in ACOR, Life@ACOR Tagged with strategic plan, survey

[vc_row el_class=”aboutme_content”][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_single_image image=”60792″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text] WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! [/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”60870″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text] Please participate in a survey about ACOR. [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]As a part of our effort to develop ACOR’s strategic plan for the future, we are conducting a survey and would like you to take part. We know that ACOR means a great deal…

Lecture “Palestinian Reproductive Death and Life” on Wed. March 14, 2018 @ 6 pm

Feb 28, 2018 Posted in ACOR, Lecture, News & Event Tagged with History, reproduction, Women

A public lecture Palestinian Reproductive Death and Life during the British Mandate A lecture given by Frances S. Hasso Duke University 2018 ACOR CAORC Post-Graduate Fellow Wednesday March 14, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. About the Lecture: This lecture emerges from a book project that examines Palestinian women’s experiences of perinatal and child death during…

ACOR Petra Church Mini-Video

Feb 26, 2018 Posted in ACOR, VideoLectures Tagged with 50th anniversary, Archaeology, Petra

For ACOR’s 50th Anniversary, we have created a series of small videos which highlight projects, people and scholarly work that we are most proud of supporting. One of our major projects has been the Petra Church. Please follow the link to see a two minute YouTube video about this project. This video has been produced…

Understanding Aid Work

Feb 6, 2018 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, Research Tagged with aid workers, economy, refugees, sociology

Place Matters: Understanding Aid Work in Jordan through Cafe Interviews Patricia “Trish” Ward is an ACOR-CAORC Fellow, Fall 2017 and a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at Boston University. Her research looks at questions related to humanitarian aid, migration management, and labor in contexts considered crisis zones. She writes below about her experiences interviewing aid workers…

Southern Jordan’s Medieval Copper Industry

Feb 1, 2018 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, Research Tagged with Archaeology, copper, Feynan, Industrial archaeology

Ian W. N. Jones was an ACOR-CAORC Fellow, Fall 2017. He is a Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. He writes below about his research into copper production in the Feynan region during the Ayyubid period (late 12th to mid 13th century). It is a little ironic that southern Jordan’s Faynan…

ACOR @ 50: Past, Present, and Future

Feb 1, 2018 Posted in ACOR, Lecture, News & Event Tagged with ACOR History, Archaeology, Jordan, retrospective

A public lecture ACOR @ 50: Past, Present, and Future Wednesday February 28, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. A lecture given by Dr. Barbara A. Porter, ACOR Director Reception to Follow About the Lecture: To inaugurate the ACOR lecture series for our 50th anniversary year, the Director Barbara Porter will reflect on past projects, current accomplishments,…

Frances Hasso, ACOR-CAORC Postdoctoral Fellow, Spring 2018

Jan 27, 2018 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, Profile Tagged with CAORC Fellow, History, sociology

Frances S. Hasso is an Associate Professor in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University with secondary appointments in the faculties of Sociology and History. She is an Editor of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies. Before she joined Duke University in 2010, she taught for 10 years as a faculty member at…

Patriots without Passports

Jan 18, 2018 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, Research Tagged with citizenship, Jordan, legal reform, protest, Women

Lillian Frost was an ACOR-CAORC Fellow, Fall 2017. She is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the George Washington University. Her research focuses on citizenship and refugee policies in Jordan. She writes below on gender and Jordan’s nationality law, drawing from extensive interview research over 12 months in Jordan. Jordanian women cannot pass their…

Nationality, Class, and Iraqi Migrants in Jordan

Jan 2, 2018 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, Research Tagged with anthropology, Iraqis, refugees

Zachary Sheldon is an ACOR-CAORC Fellow and a Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He writes below about his ongoing research which is focused on the Iraqi communities living in Jordan and particularly the experience of Iraqi young adults who have come of age in Amman. Today, there are about 140,000 Iraqis…

The Administrative Judiciary in Jordan

Dec 21, 2017 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, Research Tagged with administrative courts, administrative law, judiciary, legal studies

Steven Schaaf is an ACOR-CAORC Fellow and a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the George Washington University. His research focuses on the comparative analysis of administrative courts in Jordan, Palestine and Egypt. Below he writes about the Jordanian administrative court system. When individuals and groups in the Arab world have grievances that involve state actors and…

Albright Award given to HRH Prince Raad bin Zeid

Dec 20, 2017 Posted in ACOR, Life@ACOR Tagged with ACOR Trustee, Albright Award

The American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) awarded the W.F. Albright Service Award to His Royal Highness Prince Raad bin Zeid during the recent ASOR annual meetings in Boston, Massachusetts in November 2017. Prince Raad and Princess Majda visited ACOR on December 17, 2017, and Director Dr. Barbara A. Porter presented him with the award…

Light from the East

Dec 14, 2017 Posted in Fellowships, NEH, Research Tagged with Archaeology, black desert, neolithic era

Dr. Gary Rollefson, anthropologist and recent National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellow at ACOR, writes below about his ongoing research in the desolate Black Desert of eastern Jordan. In 1980, Alison Betts, a doctoral student at the time, invited me to Jordan’s Black Desert to see what her research area looked like. After climbing to…

Catreena Hamarneh, James A. Sauer Fellow at ACOR, Fall 2017

Dec 12, 2017 Posted in Fellowships, Named Fellowships, Profile Tagged with Archaeology, Jordanian scholars, Sauer Fellowship

Catreena Hamarneh is a Jordanian archaeologist and a Ph.D. candidate in Classical Archaeology at Von Humboldt University. In 2017, she was awarded the James A. Sauer ACOR Fellowship. She began her professional career in archaeology working in mosaic conservation and documentation at the Madaba Mosaic School. This inspired her to specialize in mosaic restoration in…

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