CAORC

Julia Gettle, ACOR-CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellow Spring 2019

Leave a Comment / CAORC, Fellows, Profile /

Julia Gettle is a Ph.D. candidate in History at Brown University and an ACOR-CAORC pre-doctoral fellow for spring 2019. Her research while at ACOR focuses on the social and intellectual history of popular politics in mid-20th century Greater Syria, particularly centering on Pan-Arab nationalist, nation-state nationalist, and Marxist political mobilization in the 1950s and 1960s. […]

Julia Gettle, ACOR-CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellow Spring 2019 Read More »

Amy Karoll, ACOR-CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellow Spring 2019

Leave a Comment / CAORC, Fellows, Profile /

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

Amy Karoll, ACOR-CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellow Spring 2019 Read More »

“Call me Galib”: Navigating Gender as a Local Humanitarian Aid Worker

Leave a Comment / CAORC, Fellows, Profile /

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,

“Call me Galib”: Navigating Gender as a Local Humanitarian Aid Worker Read More »

Michael Morris, ACOR-CAORC Post-Doctoral Fellow Fall 2018

1 Comment / CAORC, Fellows, Profile /

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

Michael Morris, ACOR-CAORC Post-Doctoral Fellow Fall 2018 Read More »

Jennifer Olmsted, ACOR-CAORC Post-Doctoral Fellow Fall 2018

Leave a Comment / CAORC, Fellows, Profile /

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

Jennifer Olmsted, ACOR-CAORC Post-Doctoral Fellow Fall 2018 Read More »

The Biodiversity Value of Archaeological Sites

Leave a Comment / CAORC, Fellows, Profile /

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

The Biodiversity Value of Archaeological Sites Read More »

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

2 Comments / CAORC, Fellows, Profile /

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

Allison Spencer Hartnett, ACOR-CAORC Predoctoral Fellow, Summer 2018 Read More »

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

Leave a Comment / CAORC, Fellows, Research /

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

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

Omar Attum, ACOR-CAORC Postdoctoral Fellow, Summer 2018

Leave a Comment / CAORC, Fellows, Profile /

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.

Omar Attum, ACOR-CAORC Postdoctoral Fellow, Summer 2018 Read More »

Rawan Arar, ACOR-CAORC Fellow, Spring 2018

Leave a Comment / CAORC, Fellows, Profile /

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.

Rawan Arar, ACOR-CAORC Fellow, Spring 2018 Read More »

Scroll to Top