2017–2018 Fellowship Awardees Announcement
National Endowment for The Humanities Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
Gary Rollefson (Anthropology, Whitman College) Lithic Technologies and Social Identities: A Comparative Analysis of Chipped Stone Tool Production in Jordan’s Badia
ACOR-CAORC Post-Graduate Fellowship
Omar Attum (Biology, Indiana University Southeast) The Biodiversity Value of Cultural and Archaeological Landscapes in Northern Jordan
Frances Hasso (Sociology and History, Duke University) Palestinian Young Child and Pre-Natal Death during the British Mandate
ACOR-CAORC Fellowship
Rawan Arar (Sociology, University of California, San Diego) Shouldering the Refugee Burden: Jordan and the Global Refugee Crisis
Allison Spencer Hartnett (Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford) Land, Property Rights, and Distributive Politics in Jordan
Ian Jones (Anthropology, University of California, San Diego) Settlement and Movement on the Karak Plateau in the Middle Islamic Period: The Case of Khirbat al-Balu’a
Steven Dean Schaaf (Political Science, George Washington University) Lawful Resistance: Legal and Political Contention in Jordan
Patricia Ward (Sociology, Boston University) How Humanitarian Relief Really ‘Works’: Examining International Organizations’ Use of Local Labor in Crisis Contexts
Pierre and Patricia Bikai Fellowship
Vivian Laughlin (Graduate student, Archaeology, Andrews University) Serapis in Hisban: A Historical Narrative of Enculturation of an Ancient Jordanian City
Bert and Sally de Vries Fellowship
Craig Harvey (Graduate Student, Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology, University of Michigan) The Roman Baths of Jordan: A Study of Their Construction Materials and Techniques
Harrell Family Fellowship
Jeremy Beller (Graduate Student, Archaeology/Anthropology, University of Victoria) Neanderthal Resource Procurement and Survival at a Levantine Refugium during Periods of Climatic Stress
Burton MacDonald and Rosemarie Sampson Fellowship
Ashley Paling (Undergraduate Student, Near Eastern and Classical Archaeology, Wilfred Laurier University) Town of Nebo Archaeological Project (TNAP) or Khirbat al-Mukhayyat Archaeological Project (KMAP)
Kenneth W. Russell Memorial Fellowship
Felicia de Pena (Graduate Student, Archaeology/Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley) Reduction Sequences of the Epipaleolithic in the Levant: Communities of Practice and Knowledge Transmission
ACOR Jordanian Graduate Student Scholarship
Safa’ Al Daajah (Graduate Student, Archaeology of Ancient Arab Civilizations, The Hashemite University) Rock-Cut Architecture and Landscape in Nabataean Petra
Rawan Hasan (Graduate Student, Spatial Planning, German Jordanian University Understanding the Urban Ambiance of Heritage Cities–Between Preservation and Change: The Case of Madaba Historic City Center
Neda’a Al Khazali (Graduate Student, Epigraphy, Yarmouk University) The Late Aramaic Tomb Inscriptions from Ghor al-Safi in their Historical, Religious and Linguistic Contexts
Safa’a Younis (Graduate Student, Educational Sciences, The Hashemite University) The Effect of Teaching Geography Using Modern Technologies on Developing Heritage Awareness of Jordan’s Geographical and Archaeological Sites among 7th Graders
Frederick-Wenger Jordanian Educational Fellowship
Wafaa Al Shalabi (Undergraduate student, Archaeology, University of Jordan) Archaeology
Ruba al-Omary (Graduate Student, Conservation and Management of Cultural Resources, Yarmouk University) Using Nanoparticles for Consolidation of Limestone in Jordan
James A. Sauer Fellowship
Catreena Hamarneh (Graduate Student, Geoarchaeology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Investigating Man-Made Terraces of Petra, Jordan
ACOR Fellow MESA Award
José Ciro Martínez (Graduate Student, Politics, University of Cambridge) Site of Resistance or Apparatus of Acquiescence? Everyday Tactics at the Bakery
ACOR Jordanian Travel Scholarship for ASOR Annual Meetings
San Antonio, November 2016
Husam Hijazeen (Department of Antiquities) “Hercules Temple (Great Temple of Amman) Marcus Aurelius time (161 – 166 A.D)”
Hussein Al Sababha (Bonn University) Islamic Pottery and its Distribution in Agricultural Fields as a Marker of Land Use throughout the Islamic Period in Northern Jordan
Boston, November 2017
Sahar Al Khasawneh (Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University) “Dating a Near Eastern Desert Hunting Trap (Kite) Using Luminescene Rock Surface Dating”
Arwa Massa’deh (Head of Publication, Registration, and Library, Department of Antiquities of Jordan) “Al Balu’ Between the Site and People”
Kenneth Russell Annual Tawjihi Prize for Umm Sayhoun 2016
Amani Ali Hammad
