José Ciro MartÃnez, 2015–2016 CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellow José Ciro MartÃnez is a pre-doctorate Fellow at ACOR conducting research in Jordan until December 2015. He is completing his Ph.D. in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge. Before his ACOR-CAORC fellowship, he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship that gave him the opportunity […]
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 Kathleen Bennallack, 2015–2016 CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellow  Kathleen Bennalack (center) excavating in the Feynan region in 2011. Photo courtesy of K. Bennallack. Kathleen Bennallack is a ACOR–CAORC Pre-Doctoral fellow at ACOR in the 2015-2016 academic year. Her research focuses on the Late Neolithic Era in the Southern Levant (6400-5000 BCE). These were early human societies engaged
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Ali Hamdan, 2015–2016 CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellow Ali Hamdan is an ACOR-CAORC pre-doctorate Fellow conducting research in Jordan in the fall of 2015 until January 2016. He is completing his PhD. in the Department of Geography at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Before coming to Jordan, Ali lived and conducted research in Beirut,
Craig Harvey, 2015–2016 Bikai Fellowship & Harrell Family Fellowship Craig Harvey is conducting research in Jordan in the summer of 2015 on ceramic building materials from a Roman fort at Humayma and from a Roman bath house at ‘Ayn Gharandal. Craig has always been interested in bath houses, heating systems, and construction materials. He is
Tareq Ramadan, 2014–2015 CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellow Tareq Ramadan is researching Umayyad-era coins, seals, weights, documents and other inscribed objects in Jordan. He is interested in reconstructing the political and economic environment of the Umayyad culture in Jordan in the 7th and 8th centuries CE. Tareq is a CAORC Pre-Doctorate Fellow in the 2014-2015 cycle. A
Mary Pancoast, 2014–2015 CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellow Mary Pancoast was a lawyer for civil and human rights programs in the U.S. and she worked with recent immigrants and immigrants with refugee status before returning to higher education to receive a Ph.D. in Anthropology. She became interested in the American legal policies concerning resettlement of refugees from
Patrick Adamiak, 2013–2014 CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellow Patrick Adamiak was an ACOR pre-doctorate fellow conducting research in Jordan until December 2014. He is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, San Diego in the Department of History. Patrick’s interest in the history of the Modern Middle East brought him to the region. Throughout his fellowship
Micaeala Sinibaldi, 2013–2014 Fellow Profile Micaela Sinibaldi has been a friend of ACOR since 1994. That was when she first came to Jordan with the University of Florence (Italy) to work in archaeology in Petra. Years later, while conducting excavations in Petra, her colleagues advised her to apply for an ACOR fellowship. She was awarded
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Emmanuela Bocancea, 2014–2015 Burton MacDonald & Rosemarie Sampson Fellow Emanuela Bocancea was awarded the Burton MacDonald and Rosemarie Sampson Fellowship and was a scholar in residence at ACOR in the spring of 2014. Emanuela is completing research for her anticipated Ph.D. degree in Archaeology at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World at
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