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.

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…

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…

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