Last year, ASOR announced the appointment of the new editors of The Bulletin of ASOR (BASOR)—a team of four scholars from the United States and Europe. All four team members have since started their term in January 2021, working on the May 2021 issue. The new editors succeeded the previous co-editors, Eric Cline and Christopher Rollston. This team of four brings extensive editorial experience and diverse academic backgrounds that reflect the diversity of ASOR’s membership and mandate. The editors were nominated by the BASOR Editorial Search Committee after an extensive public search process. The nomination was unanimously endorsed by ASOR’s Publications Committee, and the editors were unanimously approved by the ASOR Board of Trustees in May 2020. BASOR editors are appointed for a three-year term, with the possibility of being re-appointed for a second term. Their initial term will run from 2021–2023.

Susan Cohen (Montana State University) is an archaeologist, focusing on rural-urban relations and interactions and chronological connections between Egypt and the southern Levant.

Regine Pruzsinszky (Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg) is an Assyriologist with a particular interest in Semitic and Hurrian onomastics, Mesopotamian chronology of the second millennium BCE, and the socio-cultural role of musicians in the Ancient Near East. Susan and Regine lead the team as co-editors.

Jana Mynářová (Charles University in Prague) is an Assyriologist and Egyptologist, focusing on political and cultural relations of Egypt and the Near East.

Marwan Kilani (currently a postdoc researcher associated with the Freie Universität in Berlin and the Swiss National Science Foundation) is an Egyptologist and linguist working on cultural and linguistic interactions between Egypt and the Levant. He has a strong interest in methodological questions, and in digital humanities and computational methods applied to the study of the ancient world. Both Jana and Marwan have joined the team as associate editors.

BASOR is a leader among peer-reviewed academic journals of the ancient Near East. Since 1919, BASOR has served as a highly respected interdisciplinary English-language forum for scholars worldwide in subjects pertaining to the archaeological and history of the ancient Near Eastern world. The journal publishes articles by emerging and established scholars of the ancient world focusing on the regions of the Levant, Mesopotamia, Cyprus, Anatolia, Iran, Caucasus, and Egypt with a chronological range from the Paleolithic through the early modern period.

BASOR appears bi-annually, in May and November. Submissions of particular interest include articles that present original research, novel archaeological interpretations, theoretical analysis, and contributions based on innovative approaches to the study of the ancient world. The journal also contains reviews and commentaries on the latest books. Suggestions are also welcomed for occasional theme issues relating to topics of broad scholarly interest. Those interested in publishing in BASOR should continue to submit manuscripts through the online submission system. Questions, comments, or suggestions for the new editors? You can now contact them at basor@asor.org.