Fellowships in the Humanities

FAIN: RA-50029-05

American Center of Research (Alexandria, VA 22314-2909)
Barbara A. Porter (Project Director: September 2008 to February 2011)

One four-month humanities fellowship a year for each of three years.

The project will award three (3) four-month fellowships to scholars who have completed their professional training. The project will take place at the institute in Amman and will support scholars with new projects or those with ongoing research and/or publication projects in the humanities relating to Jordan and the Middle East. Each award is $20,000.

Associated Products

On Archives and Archaeology: Reassessing Mamluk Rule from Documentary Sources and Jordanian Fieldwork (Book Section)
Title: On Archives and Archaeology: Reassessing Mamluk Rule from Documentary Sources and Jordanian Fieldwork
Author: Bethany J. Walker
Editor: Katia Cytryn-Silverman
Editor: Daniella Talmon-Heller
Abstract: On Archives and Archaeology: Reassessing Mamluk Rule from Documentary Sources and Jordanian Fieldwork
Year: 2011
Publisher: E.J. Brill
Book Title: Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Interdisciplinary Studies of the Middle East

Political Ecology and the Landscape of Northern Jordan in the Late Islamic Periods (Book Section)
Title: Political Ecology and the Landscape of Northern Jordan in the Late Islamic Periods
Author: Bethany J. Walker
Editor: Alison Gascoigne
Abstract: Political Ecology and the Landscape of Northern Jordan in the Late Islamic Periods
Year: 2011
Publisher: Harrassowitz
Book Title: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East

The Phenomenon of the 'Disappearing' Villages of Late Medieval Jordan as Reflected in Archaeological and Economic Sources (Article)
Title: The Phenomenon of the 'Disappearing' Villages of Late Medieval Jordan as Reflected in Archaeological and Economic Sources
Author: Bethany J. Walker
Abstract: The Phenomenon of the 'Disappearing' Villages of Late Medieval Jordan as Reflected in Archaeological and Economic Sources
Year: 2011
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Bulletin d'Etudes Orientales 60: 223-237

Jordan in the Late Middle Ages: Transformation of the Mamluk Frontier. (Book)
Title: Jordan in the Late Middle Ages: Transformation of the Mamluk Frontier.
Author: Bethany J. Walker
Abstract: The decline of the Mamluk Sultanate from the late fourteenth century is an important component of the larger transformation of the late medieval Levant. In this centralized state, the Mamluks’ political culture has traditionally been defined by that of the imperial capital of Cairo. The political decline of the sultanate in Cairo has, then, come to define the many-faceted transformations of the entire region with the waning of the medieval era. The dynamics of change far from Cairo, in remote settlements on the imperial frontier, are, by contrast, relatively unknown. This book explores the transformation of the Mamluk state from the perspective of the Jordanian frontier, considering the actions of local people in molding both the state and their own societies in the post-plague era. Through a critical analysis of a wide range of economic and legal documents of the late Mamluk and early Ottoman periods, as well as data on rural society generated by recent archaeological research, the work documents the complex, dialectical relationships that always existed between the Mamluk state and the tribal societies of Jordan, as well as the flexible strategies pursued by both to adapt to changing circumstances during the late medieval period. It is ultimately a provincial perspective on imperial decline, reform, and rebirth that sheds new light on the mechanisms of socio-political and economic change through the experiences of ordinary people living on the “margins” of empire.
Year: 2011
Primary URL: http://chicagostudiesonthemiddleeast.uchicago.edu/bethanywalker.html
Primary URL Description: Publisher's website
Publisher: Chicago Studies on the Middle East, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-0-9708199
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

Millennial landscape in Jordan:Geoarchaeology and cultural ecology (Book)
Title: Millennial landscape in Jordan:Geoarchaeology and cultural ecology
Author: Cardova, Carlos
Abstract: Cardova, Carlos 2007 Millennial landscape in Jordan:Geoarchaeology and cultural ecology. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Year: 2007
Publisher: Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Type: Single author monograph

Human evolution at the crossroads: An archaeological survey in Northwest Jordan. (Article)
Title: Human evolution at the crossroads: An archaeological survey in Northwest Jordan.
Author: M. Bisson, A. Nowell, R. Kalchgruber, and Maysoon Nahar
Author: Cardova, Carlos
Abstract: 2007 (with M. Bisson, A. Nowell, R. Kalchgruber, and Maysoon Nahar) Human evolution at the crossroads: An archaeological survey in Northwest Jordan. Near Eastern Archaeology 69 (2): 73-85.
Year: 2007
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Near Eastern Archaeology

Changes in fire regimes since the Last Glacial Maximum: an assessment based on a global synthesis and analysis of charcoal data. (Article)
Title: Changes in fire regimes since the Last Glacial Maximum: an assessment based on a global synthesis and analysis of charcoal data.
Author: (with M. J. Power, J. Marlon, N. Ortiz, P.J. Bartlein, S.P. Harrison, F.E. Mayle, A. Ballouche, R. H
Author: Cardova, Carlos
Abstract: 2008 (with M. J. Power, J. Marlon, N. Ortiz, P.J. Bartlein, S.P. Harrison, F.E. Mayle, A. Ballouche, R. H. W. Bradshaw, C. Carcaillet, et al.) Changes in fire regimes since the Last Glacial Maximum: an assessment based on a global synthesis and analysis of charcoal data. Climate Dynamics 30: 887-907.
Year: 2008
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Climate Dynamics

Pollen, plant macrofossil and charcoal records for paleovegetation reconstruction in the Mediterranean-Black Sea Corridor since the Last Glacial Maximum (Article)
Title: Pollen, plant macrofossil and charcoal records for paleovegetation reconstruction in the Mediterranean-Black Sea Corridor since the Last Glacial Maximum
Author: (with S. Harrison, P. Mudie, S. Leroy, and N. Ortiz)
Author: Cardova, Carlos
Abstract: 2009 (with S. Harrison, P. Mudie, S. Leroy, and N. Ortiz) Pollen, plant macrofossil and charcoal records for paleovegetation reconstruction in the Mediterranean-Black Sea Corridor since the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary International 197:12-26.
Year: 2009
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Quaternary International

Palynology of anthropicized landscapes in Jordan: a survey of modern and fossil records of Quercus, Pistacia and Olea pollen (Article)
Title: Palynology of anthropicized landscapes in Jordan: a survey of modern and fossil records of Quercus, Pistacia and Olea pollen
Author: Cardova, Carlos
Abstract: 2010 “Palynology of anthropicized landscapes in Jordan: a survey of modern and fossil records of Quercus, Pistacia and Olea pollen.” In Archaeology of Anthropogenic Environments, edited by Rebecca Dean. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Occasional Paper No. 37, 95-121. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University.
Year: 2010
Format: Other
Periodical Title: Center for Archaeological Investigations, Occasional Paper
Publisher: Carbondale: Southern Illinois University.

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