2025 PROJECT GRANT °µÍø½ûÇø RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP AWARDEES
Grants for Archaeological Projects
Stevan B. Dana Project Grants
- Silvia Amicone (University of Tübingen) Rediscovering Ancient Clay Landscapes: Geological Prospection for Pottery Making in the Mosul Dam Region
- Kathryn Grossman (North Carolina State University) Makounta-Voules Archaeological Project
- Elise LaugierÌý(Utah State University) Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey
Stevan B. Dana Project Grants for Israel
- Zachary Dunseth (University of California San Diego) Early Desert Cities: An Investigation into 3rd Millennium BCE Urbanism at the Macro- and Microscales
- Gregg Gardner (University of British Columbia) and Orit Peleg-Barkat (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) The Horvat Midras (Israel) Archaeological Project
- Kathryn Gleason (Cornell University) and Barbara Burrell (University of Cincinnati) Promonotory Palace Project at Caesarea Maritima
Charles Harris Project Grants
- Jacob Lauinger and Zeynep Türker (Johns Hopkins University) Tell Atchana/Alalakh Excavations
- Claire Padovani (CNRS Archéorient) Crafting Landscape: Resources Exploitation and Production Strategies in Iraqi Kurdistan during Urbanisation and State Formation (CraftLand)
Joe D. Seger Grant
- Hanna Erfetnbeck (Colgate University) and Natalia Handziuk (University of Notre Dame) Tall al-Handaquq South Archaeological Project
Shepard Urgent Action Grants
- Khaled Abu Jayyab (University of Toronto) The Tell ‘Arna Site Preservation Initiative
- Tiffany Earley-Spadoni (University of Central Florida) Conservation of Middle Bronze Age Cuneiform Tablets from Kurd Qaburstan
- Kathryn GrossmanÌý(North Carolina State University): Assessing the State of the Hamoukar Collection: From the Deir ez-Zor Museum to the National Museum, Syria
- Julia Nikolaus,ÌýNick Ray (Ulster University), and Ahmad Emrage (University of Benghazi) ÌýThe Al Haniyah Emergency Documentation Project
Lawrence T. Geraty Community Archaeological Grants
- Madaba Regional Archaeological Museum Project
- Tourism Development at Tall Hisban
Research Fellowships
Study of Collections Fellowships
- Laura AlvarezÌý(University of Cambridge) Me and We in the Mirror. A Study of Self and Other from Mesopotamia to the Levantine Coast during the Fourth and Second Millennia BCE
- Erin Darby (University of Tennessee) Missing Ritual Objects from the Nelson Glueck Excavations of Kheleifeh
Herbert Warren Mason Fellowship
- Nicholas Gill (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) The Celestial Scorpion: A Renegade Constellation in Early Mesopotamia
Mesopotamian Fellowship
- Ella Egberts (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) The Iraqi Western Desert PLACES Project: Pleistocene LAndsCapes and Early human behavior in the Shbicha region
- Aqeel Al-Mansrawi (State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, Iraq) Before the Catastrophe: The archaeological sites in northern of Nasiriya province Threatened by Climate Change