PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS OF 17ԹAWARDS
17ԹService Awards
2025
- Matthew J. Adams (AIAR)
2024
- Nadia Bandak (AIAR)
- Hisham M’Farreh (AIAR)
- Photoulla Christodoulou (CAARI)
2022
- John P. Oleson
2021
- Oystein LaBianca (ACOR)
- Susan Cohen (AIAR)
- Bryan Wilkins (CAARI)
2020
- Nisreen Abu al-Shaikh (ACOR)
- Achilleas Demetriades (CAARI)
- Lisa Cooper (Damascus Committee)
2019
- Randolph B. Old (ACOR)
- Birgitta Lindros Wohl (CAARI)
2018
- Barbara A. Porter (ACOR)
- Sidnie White Crawford (AIAR)
2017
- H.R.H. Prince Raad Zeid Al-Hussein (ACOR)
- Sharon Herbert (AIAR)
- Andrew P. McCarthy (CAARI)
2016
- Humi Ayoubi (ACOR)
- John Spencer (AIAR)
2015
- Mohammed Adawi (ACOR)
- J.P. Dessel (AIAR)
- Marian Feldman (Baghdad Committee)
- Annemarie Weyl-Carr (CAARI)
2014
- Piotr Michalowski (Baghdad Committee)
- Raymond C. Ewing (CAARI)
- Christopher A Tuttle (ACOR)
2013
- Joan Branham
2012
- J. Edward Wright
2010
- Nan Fredrick (CAARI)
2009
- Gus Feissel (CAARI)
2008
- Stuart Swiny (CAARI)
- Lydie Shufro (AIAR)
2007
- Bert DeVries (ACOR)
2006
- Sidnie White Crawford (AIAR)
2005
- David Detrich (CAARI)
- Daniel Wolk (AIAR)
2004
- Vathoulla Moustokki (CAARI)
- S. Thomas Parker (ACOR)
2003
- Norma Dever (AIAR)
- Ellen Herscher (CAARI)
- David McCreery (ACOR)
2002
- Robert Haak (AIAR)
- Andrew Oliver (CAARI)
2001
- Patricia Bikai (ACOR)
- John Spencer (AIAR)
- Nancy Serwint (CAARI)
2000
- Pierre Bikai (ACOR)
- Sy Gitin (AIAR)
1999
- Patty Gerstenblith (AIAR)
1998
- Nancy L. Lapp (ACOR)
- Giraud V. Foster (CAARI)
- James F. Ross (AIAR)
1997
- Artemis A. W. Joukowsky (ACOR)
- Stuart Swiny (CAARI)
2025
- Charles E. Jones
2024
- Ann-Marie Knoblauch
2023
- Paul Flesher
2022
- Richard L. Coffman
2021
- Sheila Bishop
2019
- Lawrence T. Geraty
2018
- Lynn Swartz Dodd
2017
- Carol Meyers
2016
- Vivian Bull
2015
- Stevan Dana
2014
- Norma Kershaw
2013
- Jennie Ebeling
2011
- Sheldon Fox
2009
- Orlyn Nelson
2008
- Robert J. Bull
2007
- B. W. Ruffner
2006
- James Strange
2005
- David Rosenstein
2001
- William G. Denver
2000
- Philip J. King
1999
- Robert Hohlfelder
1998
- Walter E. Rast
1997
- Ernest S. Frerichs
2025
- Yorke Rowan
2024
- Sturt W. Manning
2023
- Bethany Walker
2022
- Glenn Schwartz
2021
- Andrea Berlin
2020
- Mary M. Voigt
2019
- Amnon Ben-Tor
2018
- Aren M. Maeir
2017
- Israel Finkelstein
2016
- Larry Herr
2015
- Michele Daviau
2014
- Carol L. Meyers
2013
- Amihai Mazar
2010
- Edgar Peltenberg
2009
- Seymour Gitin
2007
- Alan H. Simmons
2006
- Kenneth Holum
2005
- Roger Boraas
2004
- Gary Rollefson
2003
- Thomas Levy
2002
- Elizabeth C. Stone
2000
- Lawrence Geraty
1999
- Martha Sharp Joukowsky
1998
- Lawrence E. Toombs
1997
- William G. Dever
2025
- Chad Spigel and Paul Flesher,
2024
- Matthew D. Howland, Brady Liss, Ian W.N. Jones, Anthony Tamberino, Mohammad Najjar, Thomas E. Levy, Sketchfab Team
2023
- Marilyn Lundberg Melzian
2022
- Melissa Cradic and Samuel Pfister,
2025
- Sharon Herbert
2024
- Carolyn Midkiff Strange
- James F. Strange
2019
- Susan Ackerman
2017
- William G. Denver
2014
- Timothy P. Harrison
2013
- Seymour Gitin
2011
- Lydie Shufro
2007
- Eric M. Meyers
2006
- Joe Seger
2005
- Pierre and Patricia Bikai
2002
- Walter Rast
1997
- Norma Kershaw
1996
- P.E. MacAllister
1994
- Charles Harris and Joy Ungerleider Mayerson
1989
- Richard J. Scheuer
2025
- Theodore W. Burgh
- Allison Thomason
- Vanessa Workman
2024
- Kevin McGeough
- Jane DeRose Evans
- Tiffany Earley-Spadoni
2023
- Leigh Anne Lieberman, Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, and Melissa Cradic,
- Piotr Michalowski
- Beth Alpert Nakhai
2022
- Helen Dixon
- Ann-Marie Knoblauch
2021
- Hanan Charaf
- Kate Grossman
- Heather McKee
2020
- Laura Mazow
- Emily Miller Bonney
- Christopher Rollston and Eric H. Cline
2019
- Gary Arbino
- Geoff Emberling
- Randall (Randy) Younker
2018
- Charles E. Jones
- Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Thomas Schneider
2017
- Rachel Hallote
- Lawrence “Larry” Geraty
- Erin and Robert Darby
2016
- Sheila Bishop
- Doug Clark
- Eric Cline
2015
- Orlyn Nelson
- Joseph Greene
- Lynn Swartz Dodd
2014
- Gary P. Arbino
- Oystein LaBianca
2013
- Elise Friedland and Andrew M. Smith II
- Beth Alpert Nakhai
2010
- Michael Homan
2009
- Tammi Schneider and Ann Killebrew
2007
- Morag Kersel
2006
- Albert Leonard, Jr.
2005
- Piotr Michalowski
- Sharon Steadman
- Gloria London
2004
- Jonathan Tubb
- Albert Leonard, Jr.
2003
- Rudolph Dornemann
- Ann E. Killebrew
- Victor Matthews
2002
- Harold O. Forshey
2001
- Nancy Frederick
- Jodi Magness
2000
- Billie Jean Collins
- Lydie Shufro
- Robert J. Bull
1999
- James Weinstein
- Norma Dever
1998
- Anne Ogilvy
- David C. Hopkins
- Jonathan N. Tubb
1997
- Carolyn Draper Rivers
- R. Thomas Schaub
2017
- James “Jim” Eisenbraun
2013
- Jim Weinstein
2006
- James P. Joseph, Esq.
- Arnold & Porter, LLP
2011
- Selma Omerefendic
2025
- Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, (University Press of Colorado) 2025
2024
- Karen Radner, Nadine Moeller, and D.T. Potts, (Oxford University Press) 2023
2023
- Megan Nutzman,Contested Cures: Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine(Edinburgh University Press) 2022
2022
- Carolina López Ruíz,Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean(Harvard University Press) 2022
2021
- Geoffrey Khan,The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew(Open Book Publishers) 2020
2020
- Theodore J. Lewis,The Origin and Character of God: Ancient Israelite Religion Through the Lens of Divinity (Oxford University Press) 2020
2019
- Sidnie White Crawford, Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran(Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.) 2019
2018
- Matthew J. Suriano, A History of Death in the Hebrew Bible (Oxford University Press) 2018
2017
- Sara J. Milstein, Tracking the Master Scribe: Revision through Introduction in Biblical and Mesopotamian Literature (Oxford University Press) 2016
2016
- Mark Smith, Where the God Are, Spatial Dimensions of Anthropomorphism in the Biblical World(Yale University Press) 2016
2015
- Eugene Ulrich, The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Developmental Composition of the Bible (Brill) 2015
2014
- Nicholas Postgate, Bronze Age Bureaucracy: Writing and the Practice of Government in Assyria (Cambridge University Press) 2013
2013
- Frederick J. Murphy, Apocalypticism in the Bible and Its World: A Comprehensive Introduction (Baker Academic) 2012
2012
- James C. VanderKam, The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.) 2012
2011
- Christopher Rollston, Writing and Literacy in Ancient Israel: Epigraphic Evidence from the Iron Age (SBL Press) 2010
2010
- Seth Sanders, The Invention of Hebrew (University of Illinois Press) 2009
2009
- Ron E. Tappy and P. Kyle McCarter, Jr., Editors,
Literate Culture and Tenth-Century Canaan, The Tel Zayit Abecedary in Context (Eisenbrauns)
2007
- Bruce Lincoln, Religion, Empire and Torture: The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with a Postscript on Abu Ghraib (The University of Chicago Press) 2007
2006
- Gordon Hamilton, The Origins of the West Semitic Alphabet in Egyptian Scripts (Wipf and Stock Publishers) 2006
2005
- Mark Smith, The Memoirs of God: History, Memory, and the Experience of the Divine (Fortress Press) 2004
2004
- Ziony Zevit, The Religions of Ancient Israel: A Synthesis of Parallactic Approaches (Bloomsbury Academic) 2001
2003
- Michael Homan, To Your Tents, O Israel! The Terminology, Function, Form, and Symbolism of Tents in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East (Brill) 2002
2002
- Ehud Netzer, Hasmonean and Herodian Palaces at Jericho, Volume 1: Stratigraphy and Architecture (Israel Exploration Society) 2001 & The Palaces of the Hasmoneans and Herod the Great (Israel Exploration Society) 2001
2001
- Baruch Halpern, David’s Secret Demons: Messiah, Murderer, Traitor, King (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans) 2001
1998
- Ronald S. Hendel, The Text of Genesis 1-11: Textual Studies and Critical Edition (Oxford University Press) 1998
1997
- James H. Charlesworth, Volume 1 of the Dead Sea Scrolls series Rule of the Community and Related Documents (Westminster) 1995
2025
- Tate Paulette, (Oxford University Press) 2024
2024
- Eckart Frahm,(Basic Books) 2023
2023
- Amanda H. Podany,Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East(Oxford University Press) 2022
2022
- Paul Collins,The Sumerians(Reaktion Books) 2021
2021
- Max Price,Evolution of a Taboo: Pigs and People in the Ancient Near East(Oxford University Press) 2020
2020
- D. Fairchild Ruggles,Tree of Pearls: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar al-Durr (Oxford University Press) 2020
2019
- Kara Cooney,When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt(National Geographic) 2018
2018
- Eric H. Cline,Three Stones Make a Wall (Princeton University Press) 2017
2017
- Patrick E. McGovern,Ancient Brews: Rediscovered and Re-created (National Geographic Books) 2017
2016
- Reinhard Pummer, The Samaritans, A Profile (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.) 2016
2015
- Jacob L. Wright,David, King of Israel, and Caleb in Biblical Memory(Cambridge University Press) 2013
2014
- Eric H. Cline, 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Princeton University Press) 2014
2025
- Kevin D. Fisher, (Equinox Publishing) 2023
2024
- Glenn M. Schwartz, (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press) 2024
2023
- James Osborne,The Syro-Anatolian City States: An Iron Age Culture (Oxford University Press) 2020
2022
- Andrea De Giorgi and A.Asa Eger,Antioch: A History(Taylor & Francis) 2021
2021
- Allison Mickel,Why Those Who Shovel Are Silent: A History of Local Archaeological Knowledge and Labor (University Press of Colorado) 2021
2020
- Raphael Greenberg,The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant: From Urban Origins to the Demise of City-States, 3700-1000 BCE (Cambridge University Press) 2019
2019
- Assaf Yasur-Landau, Eric H. Cline, and Yorke M. Rowan, The Social Archaeology of the Levant(Cambridge University Press) 2018
2018
- James A. Fraser, Dolmens in the Levant (Routledge) 2018
2017
- Glenn Schwartz, Rural Archaeology in Early Urban Northern Mesopotamia: Excavations at Tell al-Raqa’i (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology) 2015
2016
- Seymour Gitin (ed.), The Ancient Pottery of Israel and its Neighbors from the Iron Age through the Hellenistic Period(Israel Exploration Society) 2015
2015
- A. Asa Eger, The Islamic-Byzantine Frontier: Interaction and Exchange Among Muslim and Christian Communities(I.B. Tauris Publishers) 2014
2014
- Benjamin W. Porter, Complex Communities: The Archaeology of Early Iron Age West-CentralJordan (University of Arizona Press) 2013
2013
- Phillip C. Edwards, Wadi Hammeh 27, an Early Natufian Settlement at Pella in Jordan (Brill) 2013
2012
- Oded Lipshitz & David Vanderhooft, The Yehud Stamp Impressions: A Corpus of Inscribed Impressions from the Persian and Hellenistic Periods in Judah (Penn State Press) 2011
2011
- Aaron Burke, Martin Peilstöker & Aren Maeir, The History and Archaeology of Jaffa 1 (Cotsen Institute of Archaeoology Press) 2011
2010
- Aharon Sasson, Animal Husbandry in Ancient Israel: A Zooarchaeological Perspective on Livestock Exploitation, Herd Management and Economic Strategies (Equinox Publishing) 2010
2009
- Alan Simmons, The Neolithic Revolution in the Near East: Transforming the Human Landscape (University of Arizona Press) 2007
2008
- Avraham Faust,Israel’s Ethnogenesis (Routledge) 2006
2007
- Amihai Mazar, Tel Beth Shean Excavation Reports (Israel Exploration Society and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 2007
2006
- Ann E. Killebrew, Biblical Peoples and Ethnicity (Society of Biblical Lit.) 2005
2005
- Burton MacDonald, The Tafila-Busavra Archaeological Survey 1999-2001, West-Central Jordan (American Schools of Oriental Research) 2004
2004
- Larry Herr, Madaba Plains Project: The 1994 Season at Tall Al’Umavri and Subsequent Studies (Andrews University Press) 2002
2003
- Beth Alpert Nakhai, Archaeology and the Religions of Canaan And Israel (American Schools of Oriental Research) 2001
2002
- Edward F. Campbell, Jr., Shechem III: The Stratigraphy and Architecture of Shechem/Tell Baltah (American Schools of Oriental Research) 2002
2001
- Michel Fortin, Recherches canadiennes, sur la Syrie, antique (Muse de la Civilisation) 2000
1998
- Steven A. Rosen, Lithics After the Stone Age (AltaMira Press) 1997
1997
- Eric M. Meyers, Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East (Oxford University Press) 1997
2020
- Pınar Durgun,An Educator’s Handbook for Teaching 17Թ the Ancient World (Archaeopress) 2020
Annual Meeting Awards
2025
- Defne Bilgili, “Preservation and Public Engagement at Tell Atchana, Alalakh: A Digital Reconstruction of the Middle Bronze Age Gate Complex.”
2024
- Helen C. Wong and Erin M. Brantmayer, “The Boundaries of Death: Outlining Mortuary Landscapes at Jebel Khalid.”
2023
- Efrat Nakash,
2022
- Brady Liss, Matthew Howland, Anthony Tamberino, Mohammad Najjar, and Thomas E. Levy, “.”
2021
- Emily L. Simons, “.”
2020
- Rachel Banks, Cassandra DeGaglia, Amy Dixon, Kara Larson, and James Hardin, “The Spaces Between: Spatial Reconstruction of a Proposed Iron Age IIB”
2019
- Christopher J. Davey, Luis R. Siddall, Carla A. Raymond, and Joseph J. Bevitt for “Hidden Text: Imaging and reading an ancient tablet in an envelope”
2018
- Morag Kersel, Marly Prom, and Students in ANT256 (DePaul University) for “Where Are They Now? Following Pots into Archives, Educational Institutions, and Museum Vitrines”
2017
- Rebecca Seifried andChelsea A. M. GardnerforThe Value of Travelers’ “Itineraries in Archaeological Research: A GIS Analysis of Pathways through the Mani Peninsula, Greece”
2016
- Robert S. Homsher, Adam B. Prins, Melissa S. Cradic and Matthew J. Adams, for “New Dimensions in Digital Documentation: Tomb 50 of Megiddo”
2015
- Petra Creamer (University of Pennsylvania) for “The Apotropaic Nature of Old Babylonian Terracotta Plaques”
2014
- Blair Heidkamp, Gabrielle Borenstein, and Joyce Fountain for the poster “The Final Season: Marj Rabba 2014”
2025
- Aaren (Zhengfang) Zhou, “Cooking Pots and Negotiating Identity: Material Culture and Adaptive Agency During the Egyptian Occupation of Beth She’an.”
2024
- Nicole Constantine, “Materializing Ptolemaic Power: Ruler Cult and Festival in the Hellenistic Mediterranean”
2023
- Morganne Ottobre, “Between Two Cultures: Translation and Multimodality in the Tell Fekheriyeh Inscription”
2022
- Alia Fares, “Archaeology at Your Doorstep-Building Heritage Awareness on the Lebanon Mountain Trail and for Beirut’s Traumatized Youth.”
2021
- Gretchen Emma Zoeller, “A Paleopathological Investigation of Amputation in Ancient Nubia”
2020
- Noam Cohen, “How to Talk about Domestic Abuse in Old Babylonian”
2004
- Elizabeth Stone
- Dick Ballou