2011–2012 Fellowship Awardees Announcement
National Endowment for The Humanities Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
Karen Britt (Art History Program, University of Louisville)
Eudokia: Byzantine Palestine and Arabia hath no better Patron than an Empress Scorned
Glenn Corbett (Independent Scholar)
Mapping the Mute Immortals: Thamudic Inscriptions and Rock Drawings in Context
ACOR-CAORC Post-Graduate Fellowship
Katherine Adelsberger (Environmental Studies, Knox College)
Small-Scale Hydrologic Interactions on the Dhiban Plateau
Björn Anderson (Art History, Minnesota State University, Moorhead)
Negotiating Identity in Nabataean Arabia
Karen Britt (Art History Program, University of Louisville)
Eudokia: Byzantine Palestine and Arabia hath no better Patron than an Empress Scorned
Patricia Fall (Geographical Sciences, Arizona State University)
Long-term Formation of Natural and Human Landscapes in the Middle East
Bridget Guarasci (Program in the Environment, University of Michigan)
Neoliberal Ecologies and Environmental Hazards: Iraqi Refugees in Amman
Nancy Lapp (Museum Curator Emerita, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary)
Research and Editing for the Final Publication of the Tell er-Rumeith Excavations of Paul W. Lapp in 1962 and 1967
Jason Rech (Geology, Miami University)
Assessing the Early Holocene Wet Phase in Southern Jordan: A Case Study from Wadi Hasa
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation East-Central European Research Fellowship
István Hajnal (Institute of Oriental Studies, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary)
Relations between the Nizari Isma’ilis [Assassins] and the Crusaders and other Muslim Political Powers in the 11th–13th Centuries
Beata Kowalska (Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland)
Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East: the Jordanian Case
Űlle Rannut (Integration Research Institute, Estonia)
The Rise of Ethno-linguistic Awareness within Circassian Community in Jordan
Tomász Waliszewski (Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, Poland)
Farming the Borderland: Agriculture in Late Antique and Early Islamic Transjordan
ACOR-CAORC Fellowship
Nora Barakat (History, University of California, Berkeley)
Rethinking the Modern: Animals, Pastoral Nomads and Property Relations in Late Ottoman Syria
Kristen Kao (Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles)
Voting Preferences in the Middle East: Do Voters Equate Tribalism or Islamism with Patronage?
Brita Lorentzen (Geological Sciences, Cornell University)
Increasing the Precision and Accuracy of Levantine Chronologies Through Dendrochronological Dating of Historic and Archaeological Timbers in Jordan
Michael Makara (Political Science, Syracuse University)
Defiant Legislatures: Understanding Legislative Strength in the Middle East
Theodore Van Loan (History of Art, University of Pennsylvania)
Umar’s Bargain: Image Making and Image Beholding in Early Islam
ACOR Publication Fellowship
Steven Falconer (School of Human Evolution & Social Change, Arizona State University) Early Bronze IV Village Life During Urban Collapse in the Southern Levant: Publication of the Tell Abu en-Ni’aj Excavations
Reem Al-Shqour (Institute of Archaeology, Andrews University)
The Aqaba Castle Material Culture Publication Project
Jennifer C. Groot Fellowship
Nermin Abdulla (Graduate Student, Classical Art and Archaeology,King’s College London)
Bir Madhkur Project
Adam Bean (Graduate Student, Emmanuel School of Religion, A Graduate Seminary)
Karak Resources Project
Tiffany Key (Undergraduate, History, North Carolina State University)
Petra Pool and Garden Project
Harrell Family Fellowship
Heather Parker (Graduate Student, Near Eastern Studies, The Johns Hopkins University)
The Levant Comes of Age: The Ninth Century B.C.E. through Script Traditions
Pierre and Patricia Bikai Fellowship
Cassandra Bennett (Graduate Student, Ancient History, Macquarie University)
The Religious Beliefs of the Pre-Islamic Bedouin of Ancient North Arabian – As Seen in the Safaitic, Hismaic, Thamudic, Dedanite/Lihyanitic, Taymanite, and Dumaitic Inscriptions
Bert and Sally de Vries Fellowship and James A. Sauer Fellowship
Monique Vincent (Graduate Student, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, University of Chicago) Madaba Plains Project – Tall al-‘Umayri
MacDonald/Sampson Fellowship
Christopher Ames (Graduate Student, Anthropology, McGill University)
Druze Marsh Archaeology and Palaeoecology Project
Kenneth W. Russell Fellowship
Autumn Whiteway (Graduate Student, Anthropology, University of Calgary)
Ethnomedicine and Ethnobotany amongst the Bedouin of Jordan: Archaeological and Paleoecological Applications to Increase the Visibility of Pastoral Nomads through the Identification of Plant Subfossils
Frederick-Wenger Jordanian Educational Fellowship
Muaffaq Al-Khadir (Undergratuate Student, Archaeology, Yarmouk University)
Completion of BA in Archaeology and Epigraphy at Yarmouk University
ACOR Jordanian Graduate Student Scholarship
Wael Al-Hajaj (Graduate Student, Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University)
Ethnoarchaeology Study, Grain Storage Unit in Rhaba Village
Luma Haddad (Graduate Student, Archaeology and Sustainable Tourism, Queen Rania Institute, Hashemite University)
Amman and its Surrounding Areas in the Late Bronze Age: Sahab, a Case Study
Dima Khraishan (Graduate Student, Archaeology and Sustainable Tourism, Queen Rania Institute, Hashemite University)
The Role of Museums in Children’s Education: A Case Study of the Children’s Museum in Jordan
Amira Laban (Graduate Student, Archaeology of Ancient Arab Civilizations, Hashemite University) Functional and Geographical Analysis of the Distribution of the Stone Cairns in the Upper Wadi al-Zarqa
ACOR Jordanian Travel Scholarship for ASOR Annual Meeting
Reem Al-Shqour (Institute of Archaeology, Andrews University)
The Excavations at Aqaba Castle: A Window into the Islamic History of Jordan
Zakariya Na’imat (Archaeology, Mu’tah University)
Shuqayra al-Gharbiyya: An Early Islamic Elite Community on the Karak Plateau
