2020 ASOR HONORS & AWARDS
Each year at the Annual Meeting, ASOR recognizes individuals who have performed outstanding service for the organization, those who have published exceptional academic work, and those who made significant contributions to our field. The following award recipients were honored at the 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting. Awards were presented by Lynn Welton, Chair of ASOR’s Honors and Awards Committee.
The W. F. Albright Award. This award honors an individual who has shown special support or made outstanding service contributions to one of the overseas centers, ACOR, AIAR, CAARI, or to one of the overseas committees – the Baghdad Committee and the Damascus Committee. (This award is given when such an individual is identified.)
Nisreen Abu Al Shaikh
ACOR: Awarded to Nisreen Abu Al Shaikh, Chief Financial Officer & Deputy Director, ACOR.
ASOR: Awarded to Lisa Cooper, Committee Member, ASOR Damascus Committee
CAARI: Awarded to Achilleas Demetriades, Legal Counsel, CAARI.
The P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award. This award honors an archaeologist who, during his/her career, has made outstanding contributions to ancient Near Eastern and eastern Mediterranean archaeology. (One award is given annually.)
Awarded to Mary M. Voigt, Chancellor Professor of Anthropology, Emerita, College of William and Mary.
ASOR Membership Service Award. This award recognizes individuals who have made special contributions on behalf of the ASOR membership, through committee, editorial, or office services.
Emily Miller Bonney
Awarded to Laura Mazow, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, East Carolina University
Awarded to Emily Miller Bonney, Professor, Department of Liberal Studies, California State University, Fullerton
Awarded to Christopher Rollston, Associate Professor, George Washington University
Awarded to Eric H. Cline, Professor, George Washington University
ASOR Special Recognition Book Award
Awarded to Pinar Durgun for An Educator’s Handbook for Teaching About the Ancient World, Archaeopress Publishing, Oxford.
The G. Ernest Wright Award. This award is given to the editor/author of the most substantial volume(s) dealing with archaeological material, excavation reports and material culture from the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean. This work must be the result of original research published within the past two years. (One award is given annually.)
Awarded to Raphael Greenberg, Associate Professor, Tel Aviv University, for The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant: From Urban Origins to the Demise of City-States, 3700-1000 BCE, Cambridge University Press.
The Frank Moore Cross Award. This award is presented to the author/editor of the most substantial volume(s) related to the history and/or religion of the ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean. Primary consideration will be given to historical, epigraphic, textual, and comparative literary studies; or to works that advance and/or evaluate new methodological approaches to the literary record(s). This work must be the result of original research published during the past two years. (One award is given annually.)
Awarded to Theodore J. Lewis, Blum-Iwry Professor, Johns Hopkins University, for The Origin and Character of God: Ancient Israelite Religion Through the Lens of Divinity, Oxford University Press.
The Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award. This award is presented to the author/editor of a book published in the last two years that offers a new synthesis of archaeological or textual evidence intended to reach an audience of scholars as well as students and the broader public. (One award is given annually.)
Awarded to D. Fairchild Ruggles, Professor, University of Illinois, for Tree of Pearls: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar al-Durr, Oxford University Press.
The Joy Ungerleider Poster Award. This award is conferred upon the author(s) of the poster presenting the results of a study about ancient Near Eastern societies in a clear, legible fashion using original graphic content. Subject matter may be based in archaeological sciences, history, anthropology, epigraphy, ethnography, heritage or other scholarly approaches to understanding ancient people in the areas covered by ASOR.(One award is given annually.)
Awarded to Rachel Banks, Cassandra DeGaglia, Amy Dixon, and Kara Larson, for their poster: “The Spaces Between: Spatial Reconstruction of a Proposed Iron Age IIB Domestic House at Tel Halif, Israel.”
Student Paper Award. This award is conferred upon the author(s) of a paper presented during the Annual Meeting that conveys the results of a study about ancient Near Eastern and wider Mediterranean societies in a clear, understandable and convincing fashion. The first author and presenter of the paper must be a registered student at the time of presentation in order to be eligible for consideration for this award.
Awarded to Noam Cohen, New York University, for the paper: “How to Talk about Domestic Abuse in Old Babylonian.”
