LESLEY GREGORICKA
FELLOWSHIP SPOTLIGHT
ASOR is pleased to announce that three scholars — Dr. Lesley Gregoricka of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, & Social Work at the University of South Alabama; Dr. Gina Konstantopoulos, a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University; and Dr. Samuel R. Wolff, of the Israeli Antiquities Authority — are the inaugural recipients of ASOR’s Study of Collections Fellowships.
These fellowships provide $2,000 to each recipient to support the study of collections, including museum and archival collections, repositories, or collections of national authorities. The fellowship funds may be used to support the recipient’s travel to the collection and per diem expenses.
Dr. Lesley Gregoricka will use the Study of Collections award to travel to the University of Notre Dame to work on the EB II-III materials from Bab adh-Dhra that have recently been consolidated there. More specifically, Dr. Gregoricka proposes to expand on her paper delivered at the 2016 ASOR Annual Meeting that used human skeletal remains from charnel houses A22 and A55 at EB II-III Bab adh-Dhra to examine the relationship between identity and mortuary practices. During her time at Notre Dame, Dr. Gregoricka will see if Notre Dame’s newly-acquired Bab adh-Dhra materials include additional teeth from charnel houses A22 and A55 and will perform biogeochemical analyses on tooth samples. This will allow her to expand — perhaps double — her sample size and so test her hypothesis that the individuals interred in charnel house A22 (hypothesized to all be members of one extended family group) were significantly more mobile and consumed a different diet than did the individuals of the (presumably) different extended family group who were interred in charnel house A55.
ASOR is pleased to support these fine projects, and we look forward to awarding more Study of Collections Fellowships to our members in 2018! Keep an eye out for information on Dr. Samuel R. Wolff and Dr. Gina Konstantopoulos.
Top image: Grgeoricka a few months ago during fieldwork in the Emirate of Ras al-Khaimah, UAE.
Bottom image: Gregoricka conducting isotope analysis at the Center for Environmental Science and Technology (CEST) at the University of Notre Dame in 2012. She will be working in the same lab this summer to conduct the work supported by the ASOR Travel to Collections Fellowship.
