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.

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…

ACOR@50

May 1, 2018 Posted in ACOR, Life@ACOR Tagged with 50th anniversary, ACOR

Miriam Saleh, Development Officer, reflects on ACOR’s past, present and future. PAST In 2018, ACOR will celebrate its 50th anniversary. Like many in Jordan, our research center relocated in 1968 to Amman in response to the Six-Day War. In a small flat, with a handful of books that one could scarcely call a library,…

Rawan Arar, ACOR-CAORC Fellow, Spring 2018

Apr 30, 2018 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, Profile Tagged with fellowship, refugees, sociology

Rawan Arar is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and a ACOR-CAORC Fellow for the spring of 2018. With an emphasis on refugees, Rawan’s research contributes to scholarly debates about states, rights, and theories of international immigration. She critiques global inequality and studies the interrelated politics between states….

Palestinian Reproductive Death and Life during the British Mandate

Apr 19, 2018 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, Research Tagged with Feminism, History, sociology

Dr. Frances S. Hasso is an ACOR-CAORC Post Doctoral Fellow in residence at ACOR in the Spring of 2018. She is an Associate Professor in the Program in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke with secondary appointments in the History Department and the Sociology Department and an affiliate appointment in the Duke Middle East Studies…

Discovery in Bayt Ras

Apr 11, 2018 Posted in SCHEP

ACOR is proud to share with you one of the newest discoveries in Jordan, a spectacular tomb in Bayt Ras. Tremendous work was done by USAID SCHEP and their consortium of international and local partners. To learn more about the discovery, the rapid emergency conservation process, and the incredible documentation which has been done thus…

The Year of Living Dangerously

Apr 8, 2018 Posted in ACOR, General, Library, Life@ACOR

Dr. Linda K. Jacobs is an archaeologist, author, and founder of the Violet Jabara Charitable Trust, which is dedicated to improving the lives of people in developing countries in the Middle East and to fostering greater understanding of Middle Eastern culture in the United States. She has been a great friend and supporter through the…

JGSS – The Jordanian Graduate Student Scholarship

Mar 26, 2018 Posted in ACOR, Fellowships, Named Fellowships Tagged with Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Jordan, students

Spotlight on selected 2016–17 JGSS Scholars The Jordanian Graduate Student Scholarship (JGSS) was first awarded in 2009. Students must be enrolled in the first year of an M.A. or Ph.D. program in Jordan in a subject related to cultural heritage. Typically, the applicants apply during their first year of graduate study and the award is to help them…

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