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.

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…

50th Anniversary Lecture by Dr. Barbara A. Porter

Mar 19, 2018 Posted in ACOR, VideoLectures Tagged with 50th anniversary, Archaeology, Petra

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, adapted from the February 2018 public lecture delivered by ACOR Director Dr. Barbara A. Porter, highlights achievements and memories from ACOR’s 50 years and looks forward…

“Continuity and Change in Mortuary Customs” a public lecture

Mar 13, 2018 Posted in Lecture, News & Event Tagged with Archaeology, burial practices

A public lecture Continuity and change in mortuary customs: the Jordan Valley in the second and first millennia BC A lecture given by Dr. John (Jack) D.M. Green ACOR Associate Director Wednesday April 18, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. About the Lecture: Throughout human history there have been elaborate and simple ways to assist…

Celebrating HRH Prince Raad Bin Zeid

Mar 7, 2018 Posted in Library, Life@ACOR Tagged with 50th anniversary, ACOR History, Celebration, HRH Prince Raad bin Zeid, Library

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”60948″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text] On January 10, 2018 a celebration was held at ACOR to honor HRH Prince Raad Bin Zeid and to inaugurate a year of events to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of ACOR. We share below some of our favorite photos from that evening. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] HRH Prince Raad has been First Vice…

ACOR Strategic Planning Survey

Mar 3, 2018 Posted in ACOR, Life@ACOR Tagged with strategic plan, survey

[vc_row el_class=”aboutme_content”][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_single_image image=”60792″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text] WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! [/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”60870″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text] Please participate in a survey about ACOR. [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]As a part of our effort to develop ACOR’s strategic plan for the future, we are conducting a survey and would like you to take part. We know that ACOR means a great deal…

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