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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.

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…

Who Were the People in the Neolithic Black Desert? — An ACOR Video Lecture

Nov 16, 2017 Posted in Fellowships, NEH, VideoLectures Tagged with Archaeology, black desert, lecture, NEH Fellowship, neolithic era, video lecture

The ACOR Video Lecture Series provides accessible discussions of new research into the past and present of Jordan and the broader Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean worlds. This video was adapted from the October 2017 public lecture delivered at ACOR by Dr. Gary Rollefson, ACOR-NEH Fellow and Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Whitman College. Dr. Rollefson’s…

Steve Meyer, Project Archivist at ACOR, Fall 2017

Oct 26, 2017 Posted in ACOR, Library, Life@ACOR Tagged with internship, Photo archives, Photography

Steve Meyer is the Project Archivist for ACOR’s Photo Archive Project. He arrived in Jordan at the end of August 2017 and will be working in the ACOR Library through much of 2018 as part of the Photo Archive Internship Program. Steve is a professional photographer based in New York City. Wanting to develop his…

ACOR Profile: Journalist Saeb Rawashdeh

Oct 25, 2017 Posted in Life@ACOR Tagged with Jordan Times, Journalist

ACOR Profile: Journalist Saeb Rawashdeh Saeb Rawashdeh is a journalist and style editor for The Jordan Times newspaper. He is a familiar face at ACOR, where he is often to be found working on his writing at one of the computer workstations in the lower library. Believing journalists should be specialized in order to present…

Announcing ACOR 2018–2019 Fellowships

Oct 18, 2017 Posted in ACOR, CAORC, Fellowships, Life@ACOR Tagged with CAORC, fellowships, NEH

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1508413626381{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;}”][rev_slider alias=”Fellowships18-19″][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] ACOR Fellowship Opportunities for the 2018–2019 academic year Complete information about all the ACOR Fellowships is online at https://www.acorjordan.org/about-acor-fellowships/. The application portal is open. We encourage you to share these opportunities widely with your networks. The deadline for applications is February 1, 2018 and awards will…

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