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.

ACOR Celebrates its 50th Anniversary in Washington, D.C.

Apr 23, 2019 Posted in ACOR, Life@ACOR, News & Event, أخبار وأحداث Tagged with 50th anniversary, ACOR, Life at ACOR

By Starling Carter, Development Officer On April 4, 2019, ACOR gathered many of its long-time supporters and friends together at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. for our final 50th Anniversary Celebration. This special occasion provided opportunity for old friends to reunite, for new friends to be welcomed, and for ACOR to celebrate our…

Pauline Piraud-Fournet: Temple of the Winged Lions Publication Fellow, Spring-Summer 2019

Apr 7, 2019 Posted in ACOR, ACOR Projects, Fellowships, Petra, Research, TWLCRM, TWLCRM News & Video Tagged with Photo archives, Photography, TWL

Pauline Piraud-Fournet is an archaeologist and architect, and the recent recipient of a new 6 month Fellowship from ACOR in 2019: the Temple of the Winged Lions (TWL) Publication Fellowship. As part of this Fellowship, which is funded from the ACOR Publication Fund, Pauline is working on the assessment of the Temple of the Winged…

Machaerus @ 50: Book Launch of the Final Report on the Herodian Citadel

Mar 26, 2019 Posted in ACOR, Lecture, Library, VideoLectures Tagged with Archaeology, lecture, video lecture

The 2019 ACOR Public Lecture Series presents: “Machaerus @ 50: Book Launch of the Final Report on the Herodian Citadel,” by Győző Vörös. This lecture took place at ACOR in Amman on March 13, 2019. About the Lecture The book launch of MACHAERUS III marks the 50th anniversary of the archaeological excavations at Machaerus, which began…

Rachael McGlensey, Project Archivist at ACOR, Spring–Summer 2019

Mar 25, 2019 Posted in ACOR, ACOR Interns, Library, Life@ACOR, Photo Archive Tagged with internship, Photo archives, Photography

Rachael McGlensey joins us as our current Project Archivist Intern for ACOR’s Photo Archive Project. She arrived in Jordan in mid-January and will be working with the ACOR Library and Archives through July 2019, thanks to support from a grant from the US Department of Education (Title VI, 2016 to present). Rachael earned B.A.s in History and…

An Experience for All: The Temple of the Winged Lions in Petra

Mar 21, 2019 Posted in ACOR, ACOR Interns, TWLCRM, TWLCRM News & Video Tagged with ACOR, Petra, TWLCRM

ACOR cannot thrive without the help of great interns – they are often current university students and recent graduates from the U.S. and Jordan. Safa’ Joudeh and Libby Trowbridge worked together as a great intern team to help document a large number of objects excavated and sifted from the Temple of the Winged Lions (TWL), a…

Pella @ 40: The 2019 Field Season at Pella in Jordan

Mar 20, 2019 Posted in ACOR, Lecture, Library, VideoLectures Tagged with Archaeology, lecture, video lecture

The 2018 ACOR Public Lecture Series and the Embassy of Australia in Amman present: “Pella @ 40: The 2019 Field Season at Pella in Jordan,” by Stephen Bourke. This lecture took place at ACOR in Amman on February 25, 2019. About the Lecture The lecture presents first impression of the results of the 2019 field…

Julia Gettle, ACOR-CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellow Spring 2019

Mar 4, 2019 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, Profile Tagged with CAORC, CAORC Fellow, History, Syria

Julia Gettle is a Ph.D. candidate in History at Brown University and an ACOR-CAORC pre-doctoral fellow for spring 2019. Her research while at ACOR focuses on the social and intellectual history of popular politics in mid-20th century Greater Syria, particularly centering on Pan-Arab nationalist, nation-state nationalist, and Marxist political mobilization in the 1950s and 1960s….

Signing the Way at the Temple of the Winged Lions, Petra

Feb 24, 2019 Posted in ACOR Projects, Petra, SCHEP, TWLCRM Tagged with ACOR, Archaeology, Petra, TWLCRM

Jack Green, PhD, Associate Director of ACOR and Project Director of the Temple of the Winged Lions Cultural Resource Management (TWLCRM) Initiative writes about the recent efforts in site presentation and interpretation at the Temple of the Winged Lions. The Temple of the Winged Lions (TWL) in the World Heritage Site of Petra is a…

Bridget Guarasci, NEH Fellow, Spring 2019

Feb 24, 2019 Posted in Fellows, Fellowships, NEH, Profile, Research Tagged with anthropology, History, Iraq, Iraqis, modern area studies, NEH Fellowship, research

Bridget Guarasci is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She is an NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Fellow at ACOR for spring 2019. During her fellowship Dr. Guarasci is completing a book manuscript on the wartime restoration of Iraq’s marshes, preliminarily titled Warzone Ecologies: Iraq’s Marshes on…

Amy Karoll, ACOR-CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellow Spring 2019

Jan 21, 2019 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, Profile Tagged with Archaeology, Bronze Age, CAORC Fellow, fellowship

Amy Karoll is a Ph.D. candidate in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles and an ACOR-CAORC Pre-doctoral Fellow in spring 2019. Prior to arrival at Amman, she was at the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem as an ECA Predoctoral Fellow in fall 2018. Her research focuses…

“Call me Galib”: Navigating Gender as a Local Humanitarian Aid Worker

Jan 10, 2019 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, Profile Tagged with fellowship, refugee studies, Syrian refugees

Rawan Arar was a pre-doctoral ACOR-CAORC Fellow for the spring of 2018. She earned a Ph.D. in sociology at the University of California San Diego soon after the fellowship, and she is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Rawan’s research contributes to scholarly debates about states,…

ACOR Thanks Our Summer 2017 – Spring 2018 Interns

Dec 23, 2018 Posted in Uncategorized

ACOR benefits tremendously from the work of the smart, talented graduate and undergraduate students who work with us in voluntary or for-credit internships. We would like to show our gratitude for these interns by sharing here on our blog their accomplished backgrounds and some of the projects to which they contributed during their time with…

The Origins of the Sugar Industry in Jordan: Latest results of the Ghawr as-Sāfī Project

Dec 12, 2018 Posted in ACOR, Lecture, Library, VideoLectures Tagged with Archaeology

The 2018 ACOR Public Lecture Series Presents: “The Origins of the Sugar Industry in Jordan: Latest results of the Ghawr aṣ-Ṣāfī Project,” an ACOR & USAID SCHEP Lecture by Konstantinos D. Politis. This blog post is adapted from Dino’s lecture on November 7, 2018. About the Lecture: The Ghawr aṣ-Ṣāfī project, which began in 1997, conducted…

Michael Morris, ACOR-CAORC Post-Doctoral Fellow Fall 2018

Nov 11, 2018 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, Profile Tagged with Archaeology, art, CAORC Fellowship, fellowship, Petra, Restoration

Michael Morris is an ACOR-CAORC post-doctoral fellow in fall 2018, currently working to conserve two marble Aphrodite figures found at Petra’s North Ridge Excavations conducted under ACOR Board members S. Thomas Parker and Megan Perry. After an initial polychrome study by Mark Abbe, these extraordinary figures will be conserved and exhibited in the new Petra…

Jennifer Olmsted, ACOR-CAORC Post-Doctoral Fellow Fall 2018

Nov 8, 2018 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, Profile Tagged with CAORC Fellowship, economics, fellowship, refugee studies

Jennifer Olmsted is an ACOR-CAORC post-doctoral fellow in fall 2018. She is a Professor of Economics and Business and the Director of the Social Entrepreneurship Semester at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. Her research while at ACOR centers on gender, displacement, and economic and social sustainability. Growing up in Beirut and witnessing the beginning…

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