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.

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….

The Petra Papyri: A city’s diary from the 6th century CE (Lecture in Arabic)

Dec 11, 2019 Posted in ACOR Projects, Lecture, Petra, Research, Uncategorized, VideoLectures, أكور بالعربي Tagged with Arabic, Epigraphy, linguistics, papyri

To see other ACOR lectures in English, please click here. (يوم الثلاثاء 24 أيلول 2019 الساعة 6 مساءً في المركز الأمريكي للأبحاث الشرقية (أكور برديات بترا: ذاكرة المدينة و أهلها في القرن السادس الميلادي في عام 1993 اكتُشف أرشيف من البرديات اليونانية في الكنيسة البيزنطية ببترا، يتضمن 140 بردية تقريبًا، مؤرخة في القرن السادس الميلادي،…

Konstantinos D. Politis, ACOR-CAORC Post-Doctoral Fellow Fall 2019

Dec 8, 2019 Posted in ACOR, CAORC, Fellows, Profile, Research Tagged with Archaeology, CAORC Fellow

Dr. Konstantinos D. Politis is an ACOR-CAORC Post-Doctoral Fellow in the fall of 2019. Dr. Politis is chairperson of the Hellenic Society for Near Eastern Studies, and he leads an ongoing excavation of Zoara, modern Safi in Jordan. During his ACOR fellowship, he plans to complete studies of the finds from Khirbet Qazone where he…

Reviewing the Temple of the Winged Lions (TWL), Petra: Digging through Forty Years of Archives

Dec 1, 2019 Posted in ACOR, ACOR Interns, ACOR Projects, Fellows, Fellowships, Petra, Profile, Research, TWLCRM Tagged with Archaeology, CAORC Fellow, Petra, SCHEP, TWLCRM

Dr. Pauline Piraud-Fournet is an archaeologist, architect, and associate researcher at the French Institute of the Near East. In 2019, she was the recipient of a six month TWL Publication Fellowship at ACOR. In 2016, she received her Ph.D. in Archaeology on the topic of ‘the city of Bosra’ (Southern Syria) in Late Antiquity from…

ASOR Albright Service Award Given to ACOR Board President Randolph B. Old

Nov 28, 2019 Posted in ACOR

On Saturday November 23rd, 2019, ACOR Board President Randolph B. Old (also known as Randy Old) was awarded the W.F. Albright Award by the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR). The Award was presented to Mr. Old at the ASOR Annual Meeting in San Diego, California. In the words of ASOR, this award serves…

History of Legal Challenges in Jordan in the 1950s

Oct 16, 2019 Posted in ACOR, CAORC, Fellows, Fellowships, MESA, politic, Research Tagged with Arabic language, CAORC Fellow, History, legal studies, political science

Kimberly Katz was an ACOR-CAORC post-doctoral fellow for summer 2019, and she will return in summer 2020 to complete her fellowship. She was also awarded the ACOR-MESA Travel Award for 2019. She is the Professor of Middle East History at Towson University in Maryland. Her research interests focus on legal history in Jordan and the…

Ashley Lumb, Project Archivist at ACOR, Summer–Winter 2019

Sep 26, 2019 Posted in ACOR, ACOR Projects, Photo Archive, Profile Tagged with archival photos, Archives, Photography

Ashley Lumb has joined us as the next Project Archivist for ACOR’s Photo Archive Project. Ashley is working with the archive from July to December, thanks to support from a grant from the US Department of Education (Title VI, 2016 to 2020). Ashley obtained a master’s degree in the History of Photography from the University…

ACOR Archival Methods Workshop 2019

Sep 17, 2019 Posted in ACOR, ACOR Projects, Library, Photo Archive, Workshop, أكور بالعربي Tagged with ACOR, Archives, Library, Photo archives

On July 2-3, 2019, the ACOR Library and Archive hosted the third annual Archival Methods Workshop. Here you will find blog posts written by Jessica Holland (ACOR Archivist) and Samya Khalaf Kafafi (ACOR Assistant Librarian) detailing the events of these two days, as well as the slide shows for workshop presentations. Making Sense of Digital…

William Tamplin , ACOR-CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellow Fall 2019

Sep 10, 2019 Posted in ACOR, CAORC, Fellows, Profile, Research Tagged with Arabic language, CAORC Fellow, Literature

William Tamplin is a doctoral candidate (2020) in Comparative Literature at Harvard University and an ACOR-CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellow for the fall of 2019. While at ACOR, he will research and interview for his dissertation on apocalypticism in the modern Jordanian novel. Will’s dissertation is on apocalypticism in the modern Arabic novel. An analytic category associated…

José Ciro Martínez, ACOR-CAORC Post-Doctoral Fellow Summer 2019

Aug 5, 2019 Posted in ACOR, CAORC, Fellows, Profile, Research Tagged with CAORC Fellow, political science, sociology

Dr. José Ciro Martínez is an ACOR-CAORC post-doctoral fellow for summer 2019, and also Title A Research Fellow at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. During his ACOR fellowship, Dr. Martínez will be completing his first monograph, based on his PhD dissertation. It is provisionally entitled, The Politics of Bread: Performing the State in Hashemite Jordan….

Josephine Chaet, ACOR-CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Summer / Fall 2019

Jul 29, 2019 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, Research Tagged with CAORC Fellowship, History, political science, Women

Josephine Chaet is a doctoral candidate in the anthropology department at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and an ACOR-CAORC pre-doctoral fellow for the summer and fall of 2019. Prior to her current fellowship at ACOR, Josephine was a Fulbright Research Scholar in Jordan during the 2018-2019 academic year. Her research while at ACOR…

Piecing Together the Wall Paintings from Humayma

Jul 22, 2019 Posted in Fellows, Fellowships, Named Fellowships, Profile Tagged with Archaeology, nabatean culture, Petra region, profile, research, Russell Fellowship, survey archaeology

Craig A. Harvey is the recipient of a Kenneth W. Russell Fellowship (Summer 2019). He is a PhD candidate in Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Michigan. Through this fellowship, Craig participated in a study season in Jordan alongside team members of the Humayma Excavation Project. When visiting the archaeological sites of southern…

Kimberly Katz, ACOR-CAORC Post-Doctoral Fellow Summer 2019

Jul 14, 2019 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, Profile, Research Tagged with administrative law, CAORC Fellow, Fellows, History, legal studies, profile, research

Kimberly Katz is an ACOR-CAORC post-doctoral fellow for summer 2019 and Professor of Middle East History at Towson University in Maryland. Her current research interests focus on legal history in Jordan and the West Bank. She is analyzing the transition from the British Mandate-era Penal Code to the Jordanian Penal Code that followed the Unification…

Images from a Lifetime Dedicated to Archaeology: The Paul and Nancy Lapp Collection at ACOR

Jun 29, 2019 Posted in ACOR, ACOR Interns, ACOR Projects, Petra, Photo Archive Tagged with Archaeology, Photo archives, Photography

By Rachael McGlensey Half a century is a long time to be an archaeologist- but Nancy Lapp has been working for 50 years and then some. Born in 1930, Nancy has been engaging with the archaeology of Jordan and Palestine since 1957. In recent decades, her primary focus has been publishing volumes on the excavations…

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