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Alhareth Aldmour
Frederick-Wenger Jordanian Educational Fellowship
University of Jordan
Archaeology
University Study

Esra’a Alhunaity
Frederick-Wenger Jordanian Educational Fellowship
University of Jordan
Archaeology
University Study

Leigh-Ann Bedal
ACOR-CAORC Postdoctoral Fellowship
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
Anthropology
“The Petra Pool and Garden Complex Volume 1: History, Excavation, and Interpretation”

Joel Burnett
ACOR-CAORC Postdoctoral Fellowship
Baylor University
Religion
“Interpreting Iron Age Religious Evidence from Jordan”

Carolina Cioffi
James A. Sauer Fellowship
University of Rome, Sapienza
Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
Khirbat Iskandar Expedition

Tucker Deady
Harrell Family Fellowship
University of Toronto
Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
Khirbat Iskandar Expedition

Joshua Feland
Burton MacDonald and Rosemarie Sampson Fellowship
University of Alberta
History, Classics, and Religion
“Exploring Continuity and Transition in Southern Jordan”

Sherihan Inalo
Bert and Sally de Vries Fellowship
University of Bonn
Islamic Archaeology
Tall Hisban, Madaba Plains Project

Sarah Islam
National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Princeton/University of Bern, Bern
Religion
“Blasphemy (Sabb al-Rasul) as a Legal Category in Medieval Islamic History“

Fadi Kafeety
ACOR-CAORC Predoctoral Fellowship
University of Houston
History
“A History of the Jordanian Communist Party, 1951–1993”

Lama Khaled Maabreh
S. Thomas Parker Memorial Fund
Yarmouk University
Social Studies Curriculum and Instruction
“New Technologies for the Presentation of Cultural Heritage Environments in Education”

Eliza Marks
ACOR-CAORC Predoctoral Fellowship
City University of New York
Cultural Anthropology
“Experimentation and Betweenness: The Formation and Mobilization of Sound Collectives in/between Amman, Outside, and Online”
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Megan Nishida
Pierre and Patricia Bikai Fellowship
University of Notre Dame
Anthropology
Expedition to the Dead Sea Plain

Konstantine Politis
ACOR-CAORC Postdoctoral Fellowship
Hellenic Society for Near Eastern Studies
Kalliroe (‘Ain ez-Zara, Jordan) Documentation and Study Project

Gary Rollefson
National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Whitman College
Anthropology
“Final Report on the Excavations at ‘Ain Ghazal, ‘Ain Ghazal, Excavation Reports Volume 1”

Nina Rozic
Jennifer C. Groot Memorial Fellowship
Wilfrid Laurier University
Archaeology and Heritage Studies
Town of Nebo Archaeological Project

Kayssa Mavrides Sales
Lawrence T. Geraty Travel Scholarship
Sapienza University of Rome
Cultural Heritage in the Near and Middle East and Africa
Khirbat Iskandar Expedition

Robert Schick
ACOR-CAORC Postdoctoral Fellowship
Independent Scholar
Near Eastern Studies
“Identifying the Sites that Alois Musil Recorded in His Travels in Southern Jordan and the Negev in 1896-1902”

Ahmad Thaher
Kenneth W. Russell Memorial Fellowship
The University of Tulsa
Anthropology
“Nizzanan Technology at Kharaneh IV: A Comparative Study of Epipalaeolithic Cultural Diversity and Technological Innovation of Stone Tools in the Southern Levant“

Qais Wedyan
Jordanian Graduate Student Scholarship
University of Jordan
Archaeology and Tourism
“Tell Abu Suwwan: A Socio-Economic Study during the Neolithic Period”

Asad Zaman
Jennifer C. Groot Memorial Fellowship
Ohio State University
Near East and South Asian Languages and Cultures