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.

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….

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…

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