MESOPOTAMIAN FELLOWSHIP: PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS
2024/2025
Elizabeth Gibbon (PhD Student, University of Toronto): “The Halaf-Ubaid Transition at Tepe Gawra”
Jeiran Jahani (PhD Student, Columbia University): “Animal Art: Domesticating Wild Ecologies of the First Cities”
2023/2024
Jaafar Jotheri (Post-Doctoral Scholar, University of Al-Qadisiyah): “An archaeological survey for the Western Iraqi desert”
Agnese Vacca (Post-Doctoral Scholar, University of Milan): “Crafting Complexity. Pottery Production and Consumption at Helawa (Erbil Plain) between the Ubaid and Late Chalcolithic Periods”
2022/2023
A Khaled Abu Jayyab (Post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of Toronto): “The Tepe Gawra Lower Town Survey, Ninawa (Iraq)”
Petra M. Creamer (Post-doctoral Fellow, Dartmouth College): “Rural Landscapes of Imperial Iron Age Mesopotamia”
2021/2022
Christine Mikeska (PhD Student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): “Feeding the City, Feeding the Gods: Animal Economies at Bronze Age Hattuša”
Yalda Razmahang (PhD Student, Maison d’Orient, Lyon): “Assessing Community Perspectives on Cultural Heritage in post-ISIS Iraq: The Case of Ashur”
2019/2020
Elise Jakoby Laugier (PhD Student, Dartmouth College): “Shakhi Kura: A 4th millennium BC site in the Upper Diyala (Iraqi Kurdistan)”
2018/2019
Sara Pizzimenti (post-doctoral, Sapienza University of Rome): “From the 4th Millennium to the 3rd Millennium BC in Southern Mesopotamia. The Late Uruk-Early Dynastic I Sequence of Area A at Tell Zurghul/Nigin”
2017/2018
Steven Renette (PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania): “Documenting Threatened Archaeological Heritage in the Bazyan Basin, Sulaimaniyah (Iraqi Kurdistan)”
2016/2017
Tiffany Earley-Spadoni (assistant professor, University of Central Florida): “New Foundations: a Comparative Study of the Creation of Neo-Assyrian and Urartian Landscapes”
Stephanie Rost (post-doctoral fellow, The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago): “Ancient State Economies: The Case Study of the Umma Province of the Ur III State (2112-2004 B.C.)”
2015/2016
Agnete Wisti Lassen (post-doctoral, Yale University): “Glyptic Encounters: A Stylistic and Social Study of the Seal Impressions from the Šalim‐Aššur Archive”
2014/2015
Antonietta Catanzariti (PhD Student, University of California, Berkeley): “Landscape and Settlement Survey of the Qara Dagh Valley (Iraqi-Kurdistan)”
2013/2014
Abdulameer Al-Dafar (PhD Student, SUNY Stony Brook): “Integration between town, village and marsh: Settlement system and Socio-economic relationships between small and large sites in the Eridu Basin during the early second millennium BCE”
Dr. James Osborne (post-doctoral, Johns Hopkins University): “The Iron Age Diaspora: Forced Resettlement in the Near East, 900-600 B.C.E.”
2012/2013
C. Jay Crisostomo (University of California, Berkeley): “Bilingual Education at Nippur: The Exemplars at the Istanbul Archaeological Museum”
2011/2012
Gökçe Bike Yazicioglu (PhD Student, University of Chicago): “Tracing the Merchants’ Trail between Assur and Kanes”
2010/2011
Melissa Rosenzweig (PhD Student, University of Chicago): “The Politics of Late Assyria’s Agricultural Practices: An Archaeobotanical Case Study from Ziyaret Tepe”
2009/2010
Nicole Brisch (PhD, University of Michigan): “The King as God: Divine Kingship in Early Mesopotamia: Isin-Larsa Period Sacrifice Lists”
2006/2007
Aubrey Baadsgaard (PhD student, University of Pennsylvania): “The Social Social Dynamics of Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia ”
2005/2006
Jacob Lauinger (PhD student, University of Chicago): “Unpublished Old Babylonian/Middle Bronze Age Tablets from Alalakh (Level VII), their Archival Context, and their Chronological Implications”
2004/2005
Sevil Baltali (PhD student, University of Virginia): “Domestic Architecture, Use of Space and Social Organization in Uruk period Northern Mesopotamia”
2003/2004
Bekir Gürdil (PhD student, UCLA): “Degirmentepe Social Organization and the Ubaid Period of Greater Mesopotamia”
2002/2003
Sarah Graff (PhD student, University of Chicago): “Production and Distribution in Spatial and Historical Context: the Case of Northwestern Syria”
2001/2002
Jennifer Pournelle (PhD student, University of California – San Diego): “The Littoral Foundations of the Sumerian State: Southern Mesopotamian Alluvial Landscapes”
2000/2001
Jason Ur (PhD student, University of Chicago): “Upper Khabur Basin Archaeological Survey”
Britt Hartenberger (PhD student, Boston University), supplemental fellowship (declined)
“Analysis of the Organization of Household and Specialized Craft Production at Titris Höyük in the Context of Regional Chipped Stone Industries”
1999/2000
Seth Richardson (PhD student, Columbia University): “The Collapse of a Complex State: The End of the Old Babylonian Period at Sippar, 1641 – 1621 B.C.E.”
1998/1999
Christopher Edens (post-doctoral, University of Pennsylvania Museum): “Technological Style and Chipped Stone: Sickle Blades and the Uruk expansion in southeast Turkey”
Tonia Sharlach (PhD student, Harvard University), supplemental fellowship: “Bala: Economic Exchange between Center and Provinces in the Ur III State”
1997/1998
Cheryl Coursey (PhD student, SUNY Binghamton): “Pretty Pots for Hot Shots? Intrasite Variability in Ceramic Production and Consumption during the Halaf Period (c. 6000-5200 B.C.)”
1996/1997
Michael Danti (PhD student, University of Pennsylvania): “An Archaeological Survey of the Tell es-Sweyhat Region, Syria”
1995/1996
Kathryn Slanski (PhD student, Harvard University): “The Form and Function of the Babylonian kudurrus”
1994/1995
Bradley Parker (PhD student, UCLA): “Economics and Empire: The Role of Commercial Interaction in Imperial Expansion on the Northern Frontier of Assyria”
1993/1994
Eleonora Cussini (PhD, Johns Hopkins University): “A Paleographic Study of the Imperial Aramaic Argillary Script”
1992/1993
Stephen Lumsden (PhD, Bilkent University, Turkey): “Applications of Remote Sensing for the Study of Nineveh”
1991/1992
Melody Pope (PhD student, SUNY Binghamton): “The Economy and Organization of Chipped Stone Tool Production and use during the Uruk and Jemdet Nasr Periods in Alluvial Mesopotamia”
1990/1991
Asli Ozyar (PhD student, Bryn Mawr College): “The Program and Context of Southeast Anatolian Relief Orthostats”
1989/1990
John Russell (PhD, Columbia University): “Sennacherib’s Palace: An Archaeological Test of Cuneiform Sources”
1988/1989
(no fellow)
1987/1988
Dianna Bolt (Univ. of California, Berkeley): “Archaeological and Osteological Analysis of Tell Mohammed ‘Arab burials: A Study in Social, Occupational and Health Status”
1986/1987
Zainab Bahrani (PhD student, New York University): “The Pottery of al Hiba, Area C”
1985/1986
Edward M. Luby (PhD student, SUNY Stony Brook): “Social Class and Burial Data in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia”
1984/1985
Diana Stein (Harvard Semitic Museum / Oriental Inst., London): “An Archaeological and Sociological Study of the Cylinder Seal Impressions from Nuzi in Iraq”
1983/1984
Susan Pollock (University of Michigan): “Artifacts and Social Categories in the Royal Cemetery of Ur”
1982/1983
Glenn Schwartz (PhD, Yale University): “The Tell Leilan Sequence Applied: A Relative Chronology for Northern Mesopotamia and Syria-Palestine”
1981/1982
(no fellow)
1980/1981
Daniel Potts
1979/1980
Richard L. Zettler
1978/1979
Yoko Tomabechi
1976/1977
(no fellow)
1975/1976
(no fellow)
1974/1975
Elizabeth Jewell
1973/1974
Coreitha Qualls
1972/1974
Norman Yoffee
1971/1972
Elizabeth Carter
1970/1971
Stephen Lieberman
