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Welcome to Insights! Long our quarterly e-update, beginning in 2020, Insights is now a revised platform to host all of ACOR’s blog posts, web-based articles, recorded lectures, and other digital products. Everything at Insights is free and open access. Please share widely!

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 recent…

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…

Lillian Frost, ACOR-CAORC Fellow, Fall 2017

Oct 4, 2017 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, Profile Tagged with nationalism, political science, refugee studies

Lillian Frost is a Ph.D. Candidate in George Washington University’s (GWU) Political Science Department and an ACOR-CAORC Fellow for Fall 2017. Her research focuses on citizenship, refugees, nationalism, and political identity. Lillian’s dissertation aims to explain variations in the sets of rights and forms of citizenship statuses that host states offer to protracted refugee…

Community Engagement in Rock Art Management in Wadi Rum – An ACOR & USAID SCHEP Video Lecture by Dr. Kaelin Groom

Sep 27, 2017 Posted in SCHEP, VideoLectures Tagged with geology, Heritage, Rock Art, SCHEP, wadi rum

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 August 2017 public lecture delivered at ACOR by Dr. Kaelin Groom, whose research interests in environmental science include cultural stone decay and quantifying tangible…

Patricia Ward, ACOR-CAORC Fellow, Fall 2017

Sep 24, 2017 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, Profile Tagged with humanitarian relief, local staff, organizational studies

Patricia “Trish” Ward is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at Boston University and an ACOR-CAORC Fellow, Fall 2017. Her research looks at questions related to humanitarian aid, migration management, and labor in contexts considered crisis zones. Trish’s project in Jordan is titled “How Humanitarian Relief Really ‘Works’: Examining International Organizations’ Use of Local Labor in Crisis…

Ian W. N. Jones, ACOR-CAORC Fellow, Fall 2017

Sep 19, 2017 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, Profile Tagged with Archaeology, CAORC Fellow

Ian W. N. Jones is a Ph.D. candidate in the Anthropology program at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and an ACOR-CAORC Fellow in fall 2017. His research project is titled “Economy, Society, and Small-Scale Industry: Social Approaches to Middle Islamic Copper Production in Southern Jordan.” During his fellowship at ACOR, Ian is focused…

Steven Schaaf, ACOR-CAORC Fellow, Fall 2017

Sep 18, 2017 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, Profile Tagged with CAORC Fellow, judiciary, political science

Steven Schaaf is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the George Washington University and an ACOR-CAORC fellow in fall 2017. His research focuses on the comparative analysis of administrative courts in Jordan, Palestine and Egypt. Why do some people choose to pursue their grievances through legal channels, while others do not? What is the…

Who Were the People in the Neolithic Black Desert?

Sep 1, 2017 Posted in Lecture, NEH Tagged with Archaeology, black desert, Jordan, NEH Fellowship, neolithic

An ACOR Public Lecture Who Were the People in the Neolithic Black Desert? Wednesday 18 October 2017 at 6:00 pm Dr. Gary Rollefson ACOR National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow & Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Whitman College Wednesday 18 October 2017 at 6:00 pm To be followed by a reception About the lecture Before…

Lithics and Learning—Communities of Practice at Kharaneh IV

Aug 27, 2017 Posted in Fellows, Fellowships, Life@ACOR, Named Fellowships, Research Tagged with Archaeology, Flint, flintknapping, Russell Fellowship

An ACOR Blog article by recent ACOR fellow Felicia De Peña on her research into stone tool making and experimental archaeology. Felicia was awarded the Kenneth W. Russell Fellowship (2017-2018). For years, I have been drawn to stone tools and the stories that they can tell us about our prehistoric ancestors; from subsistence strategies to…

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