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17吃瓜ANNUAL MEETING
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MEET THE NEWLY-ELECTED TRUSTEES
[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]17吃瓜is pleased to announce the results of our recent election for two Individual and two Institutional representatives to the 17吃瓜Board of Trustees. The 17吃瓜Board sets the direction for 17吃瓜and provides oversight for our organization. Among other responsibilities, members of the Board agree to attend two meetings each year at their own expense, to participate thoughtfully in the governance process, and to contribute financially to ASOR.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text responsive_align=”left”]
Individual Representatives听Trustees
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Theodore Burgh
Theodore Burgh is a Professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, in the Department of Philosophy and Religion. He holds his degrees from the University of Arizona (M.A./Ph.D.), Howard University (M.A.), and Hampton University (B.A.).听 His research interests are the archaeology of ancient Israel and the Near East, the Hebrew Bible, archaeomusicology (the study of ancient music culture), the reconstruction of Syro-Palestinian and Near Eastern music culture and cataloging musical artifacts, utilization analysis of Syro-Palestinian sacred and secular space, and ethnomusicology.
Mission Statement:
I am truly grateful for the opportunity to continue to serve on听the 17吃瓜Board. It is an honor to be a part of ASOR鈥檚 distinguished history. It would be a privilege to continue to serve an organization that has provided so much for me.
I have been an active 17吃瓜member since 1996, presenting numerous papers and chairing sessions. I have been a part of the membership committee for nearly fifteen years. On short notice, I also substituted for the 2012-13 Vice-President and chaired the 2012 17吃瓜Members Meeting.
As a trustee, I will continue to听bring commitment and experience. Building on existing success, these are a few areas where I think 17吃瓜could expand its services to the Academy generally and to members specifically. I would like to continue efforts to incorporate technology in ASOR鈥檚 development. 17吃瓜is working to strengthen global connections and bringing excavations and archaeological conversations together in exciting new ways. 17吃瓜understands that it is very difficult for some scholars and students in various parts of the world to attend 17吃瓜conferences. However, thus, we have initiated discussions regarding implementing technology that could possibly live streaming or provide recorded lectures and papers delivered from these scholars and students. 17吃瓜will also continue to explore how to possibly share specific lectures and symposiums in the same manner and incorporate Q&A whenever possible. To have top archaeological scholars sharing short clips within articles and reports that can be accessed any time would be invaluable sources.
Lastly, I would like to see continued energy with the membership and outreach committees.听 Efforts with such endeavors as听Friends of ASOR听will be essential to maintaining the organization鈥檚 future membership and developing inclusivity.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1503684320408{padding-right: 15px !important;}”][mk_image src=”http://www.asor.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Headshot-2-e1511883731337.jpg” image_width=”200″ image_height=”250″ crop=”false” hover=”false”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]
Thomas Schneider
Thomas Schneider is Professor of Egyptology听and Near Eastern Studies at the University听of British Columbia, Vancouver. Since 2012, he has also served 17吃瓜as Editor of Near Eastern Archaeology and ex officio member on the Committee on Publications. He holds a Master’s degree, a听doctorate, and a habilitation in Egyptology from听the University of Basel. He was a Visiting听Professor at the University of Vienna in 1999 and at the University of Heidelberg in听2003-4. From 2001 to 2005, he was听a Junior Research Professor of the Swiss National听Science Foundation at the University of Basel,听and from 2005 to 2007, holder of the听Chair in Egyptology at the University of Wales,听Swansea.听He was a visiting scholar at NYU听in 2006, at听Berkeley in 2012, and a guest lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 2016.听He has widely published on听Egyptian interconnections听with the Levant and the Near East (including Egypt and the Bible), Egyptian history听and听 chronology听and the听history of Egyptology in Nazi Germany.听He听is founding editor of the Journal听of Egyptian History,听was the editor-in-chief of “Culture and History of the Ancient Near East” for Brill (2006-2013), and area editor history for the UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology.听
Mission Statement:
For the past six years, I have had the privilege to experience 17吃瓜from the specific perspective of editor of Near Eastern Archaeology. This perspective has, first and foremost, been an outstanding opportunity: An opportunity to be a creative part of the 17吃瓜community; an opportunity to motivate scholars from across the world to write for NEA, and to disseminate knowledge on the Near East; an opportunity to work with a passionate editorial board and the 17吃瓜leadership. Since my editorship has also coincided with the aggravation of the political and heritage crisis in the Middle East, being NEA editor has also meant to have my finger on the pulse of the time. In the preface I wrote for the June 2015 issue, I discussed Laurent Olivier鈥檚 comments about the role archaeology plays as a science not of the past but of the present: The way in which remains have escaped destruction is a direct reflection of how the present came about; the present is the repository of the past’s surviving materiality. The heritage crisis in the Middle East, flagged up in the September 2015 issue of NEA, shows听how indispensable it is for 17吃瓜to assume, in the present situation, a political role as an interpreter and guardian of the past鈥檚 material memory. In my prospective role as Trustee, I would see it as important to strengthen 17吃瓜and to underscore its eminent political role in preserving that memory. I would also want to support 17吃瓜in its advocacy 鈥� with many sister organizations 鈥� of the need to educate global society and advance research in history and the humanities.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text responsive_align=”left”]
Institutional Representative听Trustees
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Joe Greene
Joe Greene, Deputy Director and Curator of the Semitic听Museum of Harvard University, received his Ph.D. in archaeology in 1986 at the听Oriental Institute of the University听of Chicago. He completed eight seasons of听fieldwork in Carthage (Tunisia), directing the Carthage Survey from 1980 to听1983. He has been a National Endowment for the Humanities听Fellow in Jordan, a听Fulbright Fellow in Cyprus, and has directed excavations and surveys in both听countries. In 1987鈥�88 he directed the USAID Cultural Resource Management听Project in听Jordan and in 2001鈥�2001 served as a consultant to the Petra National听Trust, a Jordanian NGO devoted to the preservation of the archaeological site听of Petra. He has been editor of the听American Schools of Oriental Research听(ASOR)听Archaeological Reports听Series听(2003鈥�2008), of the ASOR听Annual听(2009鈥�2014), and now serves as听an editor for Manar al-Athar Publications based听at Oxford Univeristy and as a board member for the Friends of Manar al-Athar. His听research interests focus on archaeological survey and landscape archaeology of听the听Mediterranean/Middle East region with emphasis on the first millennium听B.C./A.D., on cultural resource management in the Mediterranean/Middle East听region, and on museums and the history of museums in Mediterranean听and Middle听Eastern countries. Since the 1980s, he has led tours in the Eastern and Western听Mediterranean, most recently to Lebanon, Syria and Jordan in 2011, to Turkey听and Greece in 2013 and to Central Asia and Iran in听2016. In 2014鈥�2015 he was a听member of a Harvard-based consulting museum group working in Saudi Arabia,听Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
Mission Statement:
In my 30-plus years as a member of ASOR, I have enjoyed manifold benefits of that membership. I have attended ASOR’s annual meetings, participated in its affiliated field projects, received its fellowships, served on its听committees, edited its publications, and lived and worked at its overseas institutes. In 2015-2017, I served as an 17吃瓜Trustee as the institutional representative for Harvard University. As a returning Trustee, I would, as听before, play a role in assuring that these benefits continue to be available to rising generations of students of the ancient Near East.
To that end I believe that 17吃瓜should strengthen its core functions–its publications and its annual meetings–as well as provide ongoing support for research through its fellowships and through the overseas institutes that it听created and helped to build in Jerusalem, Amman, and Nicosia. ASOR, through its Committee on Publications, should continue to develop a robust presence in electronic scholarly publication. Through the Committee on听Annual Meeting and Program, it should expand the scope and attendance of the annual meeting while helping to expand membership and ensure that this enterprise is self-supporting. 17吃瓜must also find way to make its听Committee on Archaeological Policy (CAP) relevant to the contemporary archaeological research environment, both at home and abroad. 17吃瓜must also develop the financial means to support the initiatives of COP, CAMP,听and CAP. It should also pursue new initiatives such as a formulation of a policy of professional conduct consistent with ASOR鈥檚 Mission and Strategic Plan, the ongoing, Survey on Field Safety, the Initiative on Women in听17吃瓜and the Cultural Heritage Initiative.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1503684320408{padding-right: 15px !important;}”][mk_image src=”http://www.asor.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/C_Meyers-e1511884202946.jpg” image_width=”200″ image_height=”250″ crop=”false” hover=”false”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]
Carol Meyers
Carol听Meyers was born in听Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. She went to Kingston High School,听Kingston, Pennsylvania; made her B.A. with honors at听Wellesley College听in听Wellesley, Massachusetts听and her M.A. and Ph.D. at听Brandeis University听in听Waltham, Massachusetts.
Meyers started to teach at Duke University in 1977. She writes and teaches in the areas of biblical studies, archaeology, and the study of women in the biblical world. She has been described as 鈥渙ne of today鈥檚 leading historians and field archeologists鈥�.听Her 1988 book,听Discovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context, was the 鈥渇irst comprehensive effort to present a female-centred view of the Bible using听historical听rather than听literary criticism鈥�.听Meyers has also written commentaries on听Exodus,听Haggai, and听Zechariah.
Meyers served as president of the听Society of Biblical Literature听in 2013.听She also served as part of the revision team for the 2010听New American Bible.
She is married to fellow biblical scholar and Duke professor听Eric M. Meyers.
Mission statement:
As a member of 17吃瓜for many decades, I have seen this organization respond over and over again to many challenges鈥搃ncluding economic, political, and technological ones鈥揳nd come out stronger. I was privileged to be a member of the strategic planning committee that helped reorganize and refocus our energies. The hard work and dedication of its officers, board members, and members has made 17吃瓜stronger than ever. My hopes for the future are that our organization will continue to meet challenges and carry its mission forth in these turbulent times. Our Syria initiative is a good sign that we are in fact doing that[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column border_color=”rgba(170,170,170,0.01)” width=”1/6″ css=”.vc_custom_1496684098866{margin-right: 5px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;border-right-width: 2px !important;border-bottom-width: 2px !important;padding-top: 30px !important;padding-right: 10px !important;padding-left: 10px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-right-color: rgba(227,228,228,0.75) !important;border-bottom-color: rgba(227,228,228,0.75) !important;}”][vc_wp_posts title=”BROWSE THE NEWS ARCHIVE” number=”4″][/vc_column][vc_column border_color=”rgba(170,170,170,0.01)” width=”1/6″ css=”.vc_custom_1496684008271{margin-right: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 30px !important;border-right-width: 2px !important;border-bottom-width: 2px !important;padding-top: 30px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-right-color: rgba(227,228,228,0.75) !important;border-bottom-color: rgba(227,228,228,0.75) !important;}”][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
contributed widely to popular archaeological magazines including Biblical Archaeology Review. He was editor for several volumes of Archaeology and the Bible in the 鈥淏est of BAR鈥� series.
17吃瓜is pleased to announce a photography contest for images depicting cultural heritage in the Near East and Mediterranean World. These photographs may illustrate any aspect of tangible or intangible cultural heritage. Images may include, but are not limited to, heritage sites, built heritage and monuments, landscapes, people interacting with heritage sites, or people expressing their traditional heritage / culture. Any student-member of 17吃瓜(undergraduate or graduate) may submit their own, original images. To the extent that is logistically possible, we will include the attendees of the 2017 17吃瓜Annual Meeting in the selection process. The winner will receive a free student Annual Meeting registration for the 2018 meeting in Denver, CO. The runner up will receive a free student 17吃瓜membership (12 months). The third place winner will receive an 17吃瓜water bottle.