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.

An Evening of Presentations to Celebrate the Petra Papyri Final Publication

Nov 8, 2018 Posted in ACOR, Lecture, VideoLectures Tagged with papyri, Petra, publication, 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 public lectures delivered at ACOR by Dr. Jaakko Frösén and Dr. Antti Arjava from the University of Helsinki to discuss the final…

Thirty Years of Mosaic Restoration and Beyond

Oct 17, 2018 Posted in Lecture, VideoLectures

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 September 2018 public lecture delivered at ACOR by Mr. Franco Sciorilli, a professional conservationist with a focus on mosaic restoration who has…

Remembering Father Michele Piccirillo

Oct 7, 2018 Posted in ACOR, Lecture, Library

By Father Rosario Pierri, Dean of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum. This blog post is adapted from Father Pieri’s remarks at ACOR’s public lecture, “A Memorial Evening for Father Michele Piccirillo,” on September 19, 2018. This year we commemorate Michele Piccirillo’s life on the 10th anniversary of his death. Father Piccirillo was a Franciscan priest by…

Community Archaeology at Tall Hisban

Oct 5, 2018 Posted in ACOR, Fellows, Fellowships, Named Fellowships, Profile, Research Tagged with anthropology, fellowship, groot fellow

Brittany Ellis was a Jennifer C. Groot Memorial Fellow in Summer 2018. She is an A.B. candidate in Anthropology at Harvard University. With the fellowship, she participated in the archaeological field school at Tall Hisban in the Madaba Plains region to write her thesis on community-based archaeology. This year marked the 50th anniversary of the…

البيانات الوصفية للصور والوثائق – مشروع أرشفة الصور في أكور (Metadata – ACOR Photo Archive)

Sep 24, 2018 Posted in ACOR, Photo Archive, Workshop Tagged with ACOR, Photo archives

On July 18, 2018, ACOR Photo Archive team held the workshop, “Archival Methods: 2nd Annual Skill-Sharing Workshop for Libraries, Archives and Museums”. Assistant Librarian Samya Khalaf presented how she handles metadata in the ACOR Photo Archive Project. تناولت ورشة العمل التي عُقدت في المركز الأمريكي للابحاث الشرقية (أكور) في شهر تموز الماضي والتي كانت بعنوان الارشفة …

Sharing Reflections from ACOR Photo Archive’s Workshop 2018

Sep 23, 2018 Posted in ACOR, Photo Archive, Workshop Tagged with ACOR, Photo archives

On July 18, 2018, the ACOR Photo Archive team held the workshop, “Archival Methods: 2nd Annual Skill-Sharing Workshop for Libraries, Archives and Museums”. Current and former Project Archivists, Jessica Holland and Steve Meyer shared their reflections from this successful workshop. All Photographs were taken by Njoud Abu Hweij unless otherwise stated. Since we started our ACOR…

Reading the Bones of Ottoman Era Hesban

Aug 28, 2018 Posted in ACOR, Fellows, Fellowships, Named Fellowships, Profile, Research Tagged with anthropology, Bikai Fellowship, bones, fellowship

My name is Emily Edwards, and I was a Pierre and Patricia Bikai fellow at ACOR in Summer 2018. I am currently a student of Dr. Megan Perry in the Anthropology M.A. program at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC. My current research project concerns the presence of metabolic diseases in the juvenile skeletal remains…

The Biodiversity Value of Archaeological Sites

Aug 2, 2018 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, Profile Tagged with biology, fellowship, wildlife

Omar Attum was an ACOR-CAORC Post Doctoral Fellow in Summer 2018. He is an Associate Professor of Biology at Indiana University Southeast (IUS). His scholarly activity centers around his passion for conservation of wildlife in the Middle East, Saharan and Arabian deserts, and the Red Sea. He is also interested in studying which heritage and…

ACOR Celebrates its 50th Anniversary in Amman

Jul 9, 2018 Posted in ACOR, Life@ACOR, News & Event Tagged with 50th anniversary, ACOR, Amman, Jordan, Life at ACOR

ACOR staff, past and present, gathered at the Grand Hyatt in Amman together with more than 250 of our valued supporters, colleagues, and friends on June 25, 2018 to celebrate our first 50 years in Jordan. This was an occasion to look back on all we have accomplished together over the past half century and…

Allison Spencer Hartnett, ACOR-CAORC Predoctoral Fellow, Summer 2018

Jun 28, 2018 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, Profile Tagged with fellowship, political science

Allison Spencer Hartnett is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Oxford and an ACOR-CAORC fellow for the summer of 2018. Her research focuses on the relationship between land, political power, and state-building in the MENA region. Allison’s dissertation contributes a new understanding of land distribution in non-democratic contexts and challenges prevailing…

From Virginia to the Dead Sea: Lieutenant William Francis Lynch and the 21st Century

Jun 20, 2018 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, Research Tagged with 50th anniversary, ACOR, Archaeology, CAORC Fellow, History, research

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In preparation for ACOR’s 50th Anniversary and twenty-five years after I first ‘discovered’ Lieutenant Lynch, I finally visited him. Commodore Lynch rests, posthumously, in Baltimore’s famous Greenmount Cemetery, less than ten miles from my home in Baltimore. His gravestone attests to his command of the Dead Sea Expedition of 1848, bears the name of his…

Omar Attum, ACOR-CAORC Postdoctoral Fellow, Summer 2018

Jun 7, 2018 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, Profile Tagged with biology, fellowship, wildlife

Omar Attum is an Associate Professor of Biology at Indiana University Southeast (IUS). His scholarly activity centers around his passion for conservation of wildlife in the Middle East, Saharan and Arabian deserts, and the Red Sea. He is also interested in studying which heritage and cultural practices allow wildlife to persist in semi-modified landscapes….

The Temple of the Winged Lions: Preserving and Presenting History

Jun 5, 2018 Posted in ACOR, ACOR Interns, TWLCRM, TWLCRM News & Video Tagged with Archives, internships, Petra, Photo archives, TWLCRM

The first time I came to Petra, it was as a wide-eyed tourist; I walked through the Siq and followed the winding path to the Treasury, marveling at the banded colors in the rock and the intricate carvings that made this place so special. The second time I came to Petra, it was through the…

What Can You Do With A Photo Archive?

May 10, 2018 Posted in ACOR, General, Library Tagged with Jane Taylor, Photo archives, photo mosaic, Photography

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A photomosaic—a “mosaic of photos”—is a photo that basically consists of a single image, which in turn is made up of a number of smaller ones. If one looks at such an image from up close, one can pick out each of the separate photographs that form the overall photomosaic. From a distance, the original…

Continuity and change in mortuary customs: the Jordan Valley in the second and first millennia BC

May 3, 2018 Posted in ACOR, Lecture, News & Event, VideoLectures Tagged with ACOR, Archaeology, Green, Jack Green, lecture, research, 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 April 2018 public lecture delivered at ACOR by Dr. Jack Green, ACOR Associate Director. Dr. Green’s recent research and publication focus is…

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