News and Events

9 July 2024 “This year I was able to participate in the study season for the Khirbet al-Muhkayyat Project, along with Kathleen Macleod Kerr, a fellow undergraduate student from Wilfrid Laurier University. We were delighted to return to the dig house in Madaba where we had stayed in 2023 while completing the field-school credit for […]

30 May 2024 “Addressing the cost of fuel subsidies is one of the most politically challenging reforms a government can attempt. While subsidies pose a heavy burden on budgets and tend to accrue benefits toward the wealthy, they are quite popular with a large segment of the population, as they serve as a key supplement

21 May 2024 We are pleased to announce the selection of our 2024–2025 fellowship awardees. Twenty fellows were chosen for both short- and long-term fellowships, at all levels from undergraduate to postdoctoral. For further details, please see our current fellows page.

21 May 2024 The American Center of Research has added a new recorded lecture to its YouTube channel. In it, Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, an historian of global migration and forced displacement and an assistant professor of global studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, —talks about his newly published book, Empire of Refugees: North

9 May 2024 The lecture originally scheduled for May 13, 2024, has been postponed. We hope to reschedule it later in the year.

May 5, 2024 We are pleased to announce that our annual report for FY 2023 is now available online. Through its thirty-two illustrated pages you will learn about our mission, fellowship programs and awards, highlights of our projects, activities of our library, archive, and publication staff, and more. Last year was a productive one for

14 April 2024 My ACOR-CAORC Postdoctoral Fellowship, which I undertook in spring 2024, focused on the preparation of an upcoming volume entitled Archaeological Expedition to Khirbat Iskandar and Its Environs, Vol. 2: Final Report on the Early Bronze IV Area B Settlements. [….] For the purposes of this brief essay, I choose to discuss one

1 March 2024 The next issue of our newsletter (35.2) is now available online! It will be arriving in mailboxes later this month. This issue features: Download your copy!

21 February 2024 In November 1980, the Arab League met in Amman, Jordan, for a summit aimed at promoting Arab unity, particularly against Israel and Egypt, which had concluded a peace treaty the previous year. But the summit rapidly fell apart, as members of the Steadfastness and Confrontation Front (جبهة الصمود والتّصدي) — Syria, Algeria, Libya,

7 February 2024 As we come to the close of SCHEP today, February 7, 2024, we just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who has been involved in the project over the past more than nine years. The engagement of local communities is widely recognized as key to sustainable efforts in the field