Fellowships in the Humanities at the American Center of Oriental Research

FAIN: RA-50102-11

American Center of Research (Alexandria, VA 22314-2909)
Barbara A. Porter (Project Director: August 2010 to June 2016)

One six-month fellowship a year for three years.

The project will award three (3) six-month fellowships to scholars who have completed their professional training. The project will take place at the institute in Amman, Jordan, and will support scholars with new research initiatives or those with ongoing research and/or publication projects in the humanities relating to Jordan and the Middle East. Each annual award will be a maximum of $36,600, which includes stipend, travel, accommodations, and research funds.

Associated Products

Jezreel Revealed in Laser Scans: A Preliminary Report of the 2012 Survey Season (Article)
Title: Jezreel Revealed in Laser Scans: A Preliminary Report of the 2012 Survey Season
Author: Ebeling, Jennifer
Abstract: 2012 Jezreel Revealed in Laser Scans: A Preliminary Report of the 2012 Survey Season. Near Eastern Archaeology 75/4: 232-239 (with N. Franklin and I. Cipin).
Year: 2012
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Near Eastern Archaeology

Bread Culture in Jordan (Film/TV/Video Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Bread Culture in Jordan
Writer: Jennie Ebeling
Director: Amanda Lane
Producer: Amanda Lane Productions
Abstract: Anthropologists have noted that traditional lifeways in the Middle East, especially those related to diet, are rapidly disappearing. Women were the primary bread bakers in traditional Middle Eastern societies until the emergence of male owned and operated commercial bakeries in the mid 20th century. Although their participation in bread baking is now limited, women are still strongly associated with the production of this essential foodstuff in Jordan. This documentary examines women's changing roles in bread production in contemporary Jordan through interviews with urban and rural Jordanians in the northern Jordan Valley, Amman, and the Petra area.
Year: 2013
Primary URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJvlrpEmORU&feature=youtu.be
Primary URL Description: YouTube
Access Model: Open Access
Format: DVD
Format: Web

Raw Material Availability as Archeological Tools: Preliminary Results from a Geochemical Study of the Basalt Vessel Workshop at Iron Age Tel Hazor, Israel (Article)
Title: Raw Material Availability as Archeological Tools: Preliminary Results from a Geochemical Study of the Basalt Vessel Workshop at Iron Age Tel Hazor, Israel
Author: Jeannie Ebeling
Abstract: Article written by Jeannie Ebeling published by Journal of Lithic Studies.
Year: 2016
Format: Journal
Publisher: Journal of Lithic Studies

Engendering the Israelite Harvests (Article)
Title: Engendering the Israelite Harvests
Author: Jeannie Ebeling
Abstract: It is commonly believed that women were the preparers of food and drink in the Iron Age (ca. 1200–586 B.C.E.) Israelite household while men were primarily responsible for agricultural field activities. Various lines of evidence suggest, however, that this indoor female/outdoor male dichotomy as related to food production was not always the reality, especially during the crucial harvest seasons. The Hebrew Bible and other textual sources, iconography, and Middle Eastern ethnography suggest that women not only took part in the cereal grain, grape, and olive harvests, they were also valued for their participation in these seasonal field activities and the festivals that celebrated them. In this article, I shall examine the evidence for male and female participation in ancient Israelite harvests and challenge popular assumptions about how men and women contributed to the production of food and drink in ancient Israel.
Year: 2016
Format: Journal
Publisher: Near Eastern Archeology

Women's Daily Life in Bronze Age Canaan (Book Section)
Title: Women's Daily Life in Bronze Age Canaan
Author: Jeannie Ebeling
Editor: J.M. Turfa
Editor: In S. Budin
Abstract: Chapter in a book written by Jeannie Ebeling.
Year: 2016
Publisher: Routledge
Book Title: Women in Antiquity: Real Women Across the Ancient World

North Arabian and Aramaic texts from Ma'ayan Baraukah in upper Galillee (Article)
Title: North Arabian and Aramaic texts from Ma'ayan Baraukah in upper Galillee
Author: David Graf
Abstract: An article written by David Graf published by Palestine Exploration Quarterly.
Year: 2017
Format: Journal
Publisher: Palistine Exploration Quarterly

Early North Arabian and Aramaic Texts from Upper Galilee (Book Section)
Title: Early North Arabian and Aramaic Texts from Upper Galilee
Author: Graf, David
Editor: David M. Howard
Editor: Robert D. Miller
Editor: Philip C. Schmitz
Abstract: Abstract unavailable
Year: 2018
Publisher: Biblical and Northwest Semitic Studies Presented to Charles R. Krahmalkov
Book Title: His Words Soar Above Him

The Rise and Fall of the Persia (Article)
Title: The Rise and Fall of the Persia
Author: Graf, David
Abstract: abstract unavailable
Year: 2017
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: ARAM 29

A Nabataean Inscriptian from Bir Madkhur with an Excursus on Basileophoric Names and the Nabataean Dynastic Cult (Book Section)
Title: A Nabataean Inscriptian from Bir Madkhur with an Excursus on Basileophoric Names and the Nabataean Dynastic Cult
Author: Graf, David
Editor: Ward, Walter
Abstract: abstract unavailable
Year: 2017
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Book Title: The socio-economic history and material culture of the Roman and Byzantine Near East: Essays in Honor of S. Thomas Parker

Space and Mobility in Palestine (Book)
Title: Space and Mobility in Palestine
Author: Julie Peteet
Abstract: Professor Julie Peteet believes that the concept of mobility is key to understanding how place and space act as forms of power, identity, and meaning among Palestinians in Israel today. In Space and Mobility in Palestine, she investigates how Israeli policies of closure and separation influence Palestinian concerns about constructing identity, the ability to give meaning to place, and how Palestinians comprehend, experience, narrate, and respond to Israeli settler-colonialism. Peteet’s work sheds new light on everyday life in the Occupied Territories and helps explain why regional peace may be difficult to achieve in the foreseeable future.
Year: 2017
Secondary URL: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=808342
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780253025111
Copy sent to NEH?: No

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