2025 EARLY CAREER SCHOLARS COMMITTEE

The Early Career Scholars Committee takes responsibility for championing the views and needs of ASOR’s early career scholars (a group defined as including all ASOR members who qualify for the Undergraduate, Graduate, and Early Career membership rates); hosting a luncheon and other programming as deemed appropriate for Early Career Scholars at the ASOR Annual Meeting; and working with the ASOR staff, ASOR leadership, and the ASOR Board of Trustees to further the goal articulated in the ASOR 2021-2025 Strategic Plan, to develop strategies to foster the next generation of scholars of the Near East and wider Mediterranean and promote their success. ASOR Early Career Scholars include all ASOR members who qualify for the following levels of membership: Early Career, Graduate, and Undergraduate.

Join ASOR’s Early Career Scholars Committee

• Co-Chair (TBD)
• Vanessa Workman, Co-Chair (until December 31, 2025)
• Shira Albaz, Early Career Scholar Member (until December 31, 2026)
• Cecelia Chisdock, Graduate Student Member (until December 31, 2026)
• Elena De Rosa, Early Career Scholar Member (until December 31, 2027)
• Maggie Geoga, Early Career Scholar Member (until December 31, 2027)
• Leigh Anne Lieberman, Early Career Scholar Member, (until December 31, 2026)
• Brook Norton, Early Career Scholar Member (until December 31, 2027)
• Marta Ostovich, ASOR Staff Member (ex officio, non-voting)
• Avary Taylor, Early Career Scholar Member (until December 31, 2027), Liaison to the DEI Committee
• Sarah Wenner, Early Career Scholar Member, (until December 31, 2026), Liaison to the Program Committee

Subcommittees

Community & Networking

Cecilia Chisdock, Elena De Rosa

Academic and Professionalization Programming

Vanessa Workman (chair), Shira Albaz, Maggie Geoga, Luiza Osorio G. Silva

Early Career Member Resources

ASOR Early Career Scholars Facebook Page