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2023 Recipients

Community Engagement and Public Outreach Award: Marilyn Lundberg Melzian
The Charles U. Harris Service Award: Paul Flesher
The P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award: Bethany Walker
ASOR Membership Service Award: Leigh Anne Lieberman, Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, and Melissa Cradic, Digging Up Data
ASOR Membership Service Award: Piotr Michalowski
ASOR Membership Service Award: Beth Alpert Nakhai
The G. Ernest Wright Award: James Osborne, The Syro-Anatolian City States: An Iron Age Culture (Oxford University Press)
The Frank Moore Cross Award: Megan Nutzman, Contested Cures: Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine (Edinburgh University Press)
The Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award: Amanda H. Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East (Oxford University Press)
The Joy Ungerleider Poster Award: Efrat Nakash, “Copper circulation in the southern Levant during the EBIIIA: Tell el-Hesi as a case study”
Student Paper Award: Morganne Ottobre, “Between Two Cultures: Translation and Multimodality in the Tell Fekheriyeh Inscription”

2022 Recipients

The W. F. Albright Award (ACOR): John P. Oleson
The Charles U. Harris Service Award: Richard L. Coffman
The P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award: Glenn Schwartz
ASOR Membership Service Award: Helen Dixon
ASOR Membership Service Award: Ann-Marie Knoblauch
ASOR Community Outreach and Public Engagement: Melissa Cradic and Samuel Pfister, Unsilencing the Archives
The G. Ernest Wright Award: Andrea De Giorgi and A. Asa Eger, Antioch: A History (Taylor & Francis)
The Frank Moore Cross Award: Carolina López Ruíz, Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean (Harvard University Press)
The Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award: Paul Collins, The Sumerians (Reaktion Books)
The Joy Ungerleider Poster Award: Brady Liss, Matthew Howland, Anthony Tamberino, Mohammad Najjar, and Thomas E. Levy, “Digitally Cleaning the Section: Using Archived Photographs to Reconstruct Stratigraphic Sections in Faynan, Jordan.”
Student Paper Award: Alia Fares, “Archaeology at Your Doorstep-Building Heritage Awareness on the Lebanon Mountain Trail and for Beirut’s Traumatized Youth.”

2021 Recipients

The Charles U. Harris Service Award: Sheila Bishop
ASOR Membership Service Award: Hanan Charaf
ASOR Membership Service Award: Kate Grossman
ASOR Membership Service Award: Heather McKee
The W. F. Albright Service Award (ACOR): Oystein LaBianca
The W. F. Albright Service Award (AIAR): Susan Cohen
The W. F. Albright Service Award (CAARI): F. Bryan Wilkins
The P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award: Andrea Berlin
The Frank Moore Cross Award: Geoffrey Khan, The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew (Open Book Publishers)
The Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award: Max Price, Evolution of a Taboo: Pigs and People in the Ancient Near East (Oxford University Press)
The G. Ernest Wright Award: Allison Mickel, Why Those Who Shovel Are Silent: A History of Local Archaeological Knowledge and Labor (University Press of Colorado)
The Joy Ungerleider Poster Award: Emily L. Simons, “Griffins in Late Bronze Age East Mediterranean Archaeology.”
Student Paper Award: Gretchen Emma Zoeller, A Paleopathological Investigation of Amputation in Ancient Nubia.

2020 Recipients

ASOR Membership Service Award: Laura Mazow
ASOR Membership Service Award: Emily Miller Bonney
ASOR Membership Service Award: Christopher Rollston and Eric H. Cline
The W. F. Albright Service Award (ACOR): Nisreen Abu al-Shaikh
The W. F. Albright Service Award (CAARI): Achilleas Demetriades
The W. F. Albright Service Award (Damascus Committee): Lisa Cooper
The P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award:Mary M. Voigt
The Frank Moore Cross Award: Theodore J. Lewis, The Origin and Character of God: Ancient Israelite Religion Through the Lens of Divinity (Oxford University Press)
The Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award: D. Fairchild Ruggles, Tree of Pearls: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the 13^th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar al-Durr (Oxford University Press)
The G. Ernest Wright Award: Raphael Greenberg, The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant: From Urban Origins to the Demise of City-States, 3700-1000 BCE (Cambridge University Press)
ASOR Special Recognition Book Award: Pınar Durgun, An Educator’s Handbook for Teaching About the Ancient World (Archaeopress)
The Joy Ungerleider Poster Award: Rachel Banks, Cassandra DeGaglia, Amy Dixon, Kara Larson, and James Hardin, The Spaces Between: Spatial Reconstruction of a Proposed Iron Age IIB Domestic House at Tel Halif, Israel
Student Paper Award: Noam Cohen, How to Talk about Domestic Abuse in Old Babylonian

2019 Recipients

The Richard J. Scheuer Medal: Susan Ackerman
The Charles U. Harris Service Award: Lawrence T. Geraty
ASOR Membership Service Award: Gary Arbino
ASOR Membership Service Award: Geoff Emberling
ASOR Membership Service Award: Randall (Randy) Younker
The W. F. Albright Service Award (ACOR): Randolph B. Old
The W. F. Albright Service Award (CAARI): Birgitta Lindros Wohl
The P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award: Amnon Ben-Tor
The Frank Moore Cross Award: Sidnie White Crawford for Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran (Wm. B. Eerdmans)
The Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award: Kara Cooney for When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt (National Geographic)
The G. Ernest Wright Award: Assaf Yasur-Landau, Eric H. Cline, and Yorke M. Rowan for The Social Archaeology of the Levant (Cambridge University Press)
The Joy Ungerleider Poster Award: Christopher J. Davey, Luis R. Siddall, Carla A. Raymond, and Joseph J. Bevitt for Hidden Text: Imaging and reading an ancient tablet in an envelope

2018 Recipients

The Charles U. Harris Service Award: Lynn Swartz Dodd
ASOR Membership Service Award: Charles E. Jones
ASOR Membership Service Award: Jonathan Rosenbaum
ASOR Membership Service Award: Thomas Schneider
The W. F. Albright Service Award (ACOR): Barbara A. Porter
The W. F. Albright Service Award (AIAR): Sidnie White Crawford
The P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award: Aren M. Maeir
The Frank Moore Cross Award: Matthew J. Suriano for A History of Death in the Hebrew Bible
The Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award: Eric H. Cline for Three Stones Make a Wall
The G. Ernest Wright Award: James A. Fraser for Dolmens in the Levant
The Joy Ungerleider Poster Award: Morag Kersel, Marly Prom, and Students in ANT256 (DePaul University) for Where Are They Now? Following Pots into Archives, Educational Institutions, and Museum Vitrines

2017 Recipients

The Charles U. Harris Service Award: Carol Meyers
ASOR Membership Service Award: Rachel Hallote
ASOR Membership Service Award: Lawrence “Larry” Geraty
ASOR Membership Service Award: Erin and Robert Darby
ASOR Special Service Award: James “Jim” Eisenbraun
The W. F. Albright Service Award (ACOR): H.R.H. Prince Raad Zeid Al-Hussein
The W. F. Albright Service Award (AIAR): Sharon Herbert
The W. F. Albright Service Award (CAARI): Andrew P. McCarthy
The P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award: Israel Finkelstein
The Frank Moore Cross Award: Sara J. Milstein for Tracking the Master Scribe: Revision through Introduction in Biblical and Mesopotamian Literature
The Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award: Patrick E. McGovern for Ancient Brews: Rediscovered and Re-created
The G. Ernest Wright Award: Glenn Schwartz for Rural Archaeology in Early Urban Northern Mesopotamia: Excavations at Tell al-Raqa’i
The Joy Ungerleider Poster Award: Rebecca Seifried and Chelsea A. M. Gardner for The Value of Travelers’ Itineraries in Archaeological Research: A GIS Analysis of Pathways through the Mani Peninsula, Greece
The Richard J. Scheuer Medal: William G. Dever

2016 Recipients

The Charles U. Harris Service Award: Vivian Bull
ASOR Membership Service Award: Sheila Bishop
ASOR Membership Service Award: Doug Clark
ASOR Membership Service Award: Eric Cline
The W. F. Albright Service Award (ACOR): Humi Ayoubi
The W. F. Albright Service Award (AIAR): John Spencer
The P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award: Larry Herr
The Frank Moore Cross Award: Mark Smith for Where the God Are, Spatial Dimensions of Anthropomorphism in the Biblical World (Yale University Press)
The Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award: Reinhard Pummer, for The Samaritans, A Profile(Eerdmans)
The G. Ernest Wright Award: Seymour Gitin (ed.), for The Ancient Pottery of Israel and its Neighbors from the Iron Age through the Hellenistic Period (IES)
The Joy Ungerleider Poster Award: Robert S. Homsher, Adam B. Prins, Melissa S. Cradic and Matthew J. Adams, for New Dimensions in Digital Documentation: Tomb 50 of Megiddo

2015 Recipients

The Charles U. Harris Service Award: Stevan Dana
ASOR Membership Service Award: Orlyn Nelson
ASOR Membership Service Award: Joseph Greene
ASOR Membership Service Award: Lynn Swartz Dodd
The W. F. Albright Service Award (ACOR): Mohammed Adawi
The W. F. Albright Service Award (AIAR): J. P. Dessel
The W. F. Albright Service Award (Baghdad Committee): Marian Feldman
The W. F. Albright Service Award (CAARI): Annemarie Weyl-Carr
The P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award: Michele Daviau
The Frank Moore Cross Award: Eugene Ulrich for The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Developmental Composition of the Bible (Brill)
The Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award: Jacob L. Wright for David, King of Israel, and Caleb in Biblical Memory (Cambridge University Press)
The G. Ernest Wright Award: A. Asa Eger for The Islamic-Byzantine Frontier: Interaction and Exchange Among Muslim and Christian Communities (I.B. Tauris Publishers)
The Joy Ungerleider Poster Award: Petra Creamer (University of Pennsylvania) for The Apotropaic Nature of Old Babylonian Terracotta Plaques

2014 Recipients

The Richard J. Scheuer Medal: Timothy P. Harrison
The Charles U. Harris Service Award: Norma Kershaw
The P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award: Carol L. Meyers
The W. F. Albright Service Award (Baghdad Committee): Piotr Michalowski
The W. F. Albright Service Award (CAARI): Raymond C. Ewing
The W. F. Albright Service Award (ACOR): Christopher A. Tuttle
The ASOR Membership Service Award: Gary P. Arbino
The ASOR Membership Service Award: Oystein LaBianca
The G. Ernest Wright Publications Award: Benjamin W. Porter for the book Complex Communities: The Archaeology of Early Iron Age West-Central Jordan, University of Arizona Press, 2013
The Frank Moore Cross Award: Nicholas Postgate for the book Bronze Age Bureaucracy: Writing and the Practice of Government in Assyria, Cambridge University Press, 2013
The ASOR Popular Book Award: Eric H. Cline for the book 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed, Princeton University Press, 2014
The ASOR Annual Meeting Poster Award: Blair Heidkamp, Gabrielle Borenstein, and Joyce Fountain for the poster The Final Season: Marj Rabba 2014

2013 Recipients

The Richard J. Scheuer Medal: Seymour Gitin
The Charles U. Harris Service Award: Jennie Ebeling
The P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award: Amihai Mazar
The W. F. Albright Service Award: Joan Branham
The ASOR Special Service Award: Jim Weinstein
The ASOR Membership Service Award: Elise Friedland and Andrew M. Smith II
The ASOR Membership Service Award: Beth Alpert Nakhai
The G. Ernest Wright Publications Award: Phillip C. Edwards for the book Wadi Hammeh 27, an Early Natufian Settlement at Pella in Jordan, Brill, 2013.
The Frank Moore Cross Award: Frederick J. Murphy for the book Apocalypticism in the Bible and Its World: A Comprehensive Introduction, Baker Academic, 2012.

2012 Recipients

W.F. Albright Award: J. Edward Wright.
G. Ernest Wright Publication Award: Oded Lipshitz and David Vanderhooft for the book The Yehud Stamp Impressions: A Corpus of Inscribed Impressions from the Persian and Hellenistic Periods in Judah.
Frank Moore Cross Award: James C. VanderKam for the book The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible.

2011 Recipients

Ten Years of Service to ASOR – Selma Omerefendic
The Charles U. Harris Service Award – Sheldon Fox
G. Ernest Wright Publication Award – Aaron Burke, Martin Peilstöker and Aren Maeir
The Richard J. Scheuer Medal – Lydie Shufro
The Frank Moore Cross Award – Christopher Rollston

2010 Recipients

Membership Service Award – Michael Homan
W.F. Albright Award (CAARI) – Nan Frederick
The P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award – Edgar Peltenberg
G. Ernest Wright Publication Award –Aharon Sasson, Animal Husbandry in Ancient Israel: A Zooarchaeological Perspective on Livestock Exploitation, Herd Management and Economic Strategies (Equinox Publishing 2010)
The Frank Moore Cross Award – Seth Sanders

2009 Recipients

Membership Service Awards – Tammi Schneider and Ann Killebrew
Charles U. Harris Service Award – Orlyn Nelson
G. Ernest Wright Publication Award – Alan Simmons
W.F. Albright Award (CAARI) – Gus Feissel
The P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award – Seymour Gitin
The Frank Moore Cross Award – Ron E. Tappy and P. Kyle McCarter, Jr., Editors
Literate Culture and Tenth-Century Canaan, The Tel Zayit Abecedary in Context, Eisenbrauns (Winona Lake, IN) 2008

2008 Recipients

G. Ernest Wright Publication Award – Avraham Faust, Israel’s Ethnogenesis
Charles U. Harris Service Award – Robert J. Bull
W.F. Albright Award (CAARI) – Stuart Swiny
W.F. Albright Award (AIAR) – Lydie Shufro
Membership Service Award – Jeffrey Blakely

2007 Recipients

Richard J. Scheuer Medal – Eric M. Meyers
P.E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award – Alan H. Simmons
G. Ernest Wright Publication Award – Amihai Mazar – Tel Beth Shean Excavation Reports
Frank Moore Cross Publication Award – Bruce Lincoln – Religion, Empire and Torture
Charles U. Harris Service Award – B. W. Ruffner
W.F. Albright Award (ACOR) – Bert DeVries
Membership Service Award – Morag Kersel

2006 Recipients

Richard J. Scheuer Medal – Joe Seger
P.E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award – Kenneth Holum
G. Ernest Wright Publication Award – Ann E. Killebrew
Frank Moore Cross Publication Award – Gordon Hamilton
W.F. Albright Award (AIAR) – Sidnie White Crawford
Charles U. Harris Service Award – James Strange
Membership Service Award – Albert Leonard, Jr.
Special Service Award – James P. Joseph, Esq.
Special Service Award – Arnold & Porter, LLP

2005 Recipients

Richard J. Scheuer Medals – Pierre and Patricia Bikai
P.E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award – Roger Boraas
G. Ernest Wright Publication Award – Burton MacDonald
Frank Moore Cross Publication Award – Mark Smith
Charles U. Harris Service Award – David Rosenstein
W.F. Albright Award (CAARI) – David Detrich
W.F. Albright Award (AIAR) – Daniel Wolk
Membership Service Award – Piotr Michalowski
Membership Service Award – Sharon Steadman
Membership Service Award – Gloria London

2004 Recipients

P.E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award – Gary Rollefson
G. Ernest Wright Publication Award – Larry Herr
Frank Moore Cross Publication Award – Ziony Zevit
W.F. Albright Award (CAARI) – Vathoulla Moustoukki
W.F. Albright Award (ACOR) – S. Thomas Parker
Membership Service Award – Jonathan Tubb
Membership Service Award – Albert Leonard, Jr.
Special Recognition Award – Elizabeth Stone
Special Recognition Award – Dick Ballou

2003 Recipients

P.E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award – Thomas Levy
G. Ernest Wright Publication Award – Beth Alpert Nakhai
Frank Moore Cross Publication Award – Michael Homan
W.F. Albright Award (AIAR) – Norma Dever
W.F. Albright Award (CAARI) – Ellen Herscher
W.F. Albright Award (ACOR) – David McCreery
Membership Service Award – Rudolph Dornemann
Membership Service Award – Ann E. Killebrew
Membership Service Award – Victor Matthews

2002 Recipients

Richard Scheuer Medal – Walter Rast
P.E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award – Elizabeth C. Stone
G. Ernest Wright Publication Award – Edward F. Campbell, Jr.
Frank Moore Cross Publication Award – Ehud Netzer
W.F. Albright Award (AIAR) – Robert Haak
W.F. Albright Award (CAARI) – Andrew Oliver
Membership Service Award – Harold O. Forshey

2001 Recipients

Charles U. Harris Service Award – William G. Dever
G. Ernest Wright Publication Award – Michel Fortin
Frank Moore Cross Publication Award – Baruch Halpern
W.F. Albright Award (ACOR) – Patricia Bikai
W.F. Albright Award (AIAR) – John Spencer
W.F. Albright Award (CAARI) – Nancy Serwint
Membership Service Award – Nancy Frederick
Membership Service Award – Jodi Magness

2000 Recipients

Charles U. Harris Service Award – Philip J. King
P.E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award – Lawrence Geraty
W. F. Albright Award (ACOR) – Pierre Bikai
W.F. Albright Award (AIAR) – Sy Gitin
Membership Service Award – Billie Jean Collins
Membership Service Award – Lydie Shufro
Membership Service Award – Robert J. Bull

1999 Recipients

Charles U. Harris Service Award – Robert Hohlfelder
P.E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award – Martha Sharp Joukowsky
W. F. Albright Award (AIAR) – Patty Gerstenblith
Membership Service Award – James Weinstein
Membership Service Award – Norma Dever

1998 Recipients

Charles U. Harris Award – Walter E. Rast
P.E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award – Lawrence E. Toombs
G. Ernest Wright Publication Award – Steven A. Rosen
Frank Moore Cross Publication Award – Ronald S. Hendel
W. F. Albright Award (ACOR) – Nancy L. Lapp
W. F. Albright Award (CAARI) – Giraud V. Foster
W. F. Albright Award (AIAR) – James F. Ross
Membership Service Award – Anne Ogilvy
Membership Service Award – David C. Hopkins
Membership Service Award – Jonathan N. Tubb

1997 Recipients

Richard J. Scheuer Medal – Norma Kershaw
Charles U. Harris Service Award – Ernest S. Frerichs
P.E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award – William G. Dever
G. Ernest Wright Publication Award – Eric M. Meyers
Frank Moore Cross Publication Award – James H. Charlesworth
W. F. Albright Award (ACOR) – Artemis A. W. Joukowsky
W. F. Albright Award (CAARI) – Stuart Swiny
Membership Service Award – Carolyn Draper Rivers
Membership Service Award – R. Thomas Schaub