ASOR-AFFILIATED CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS AND CONSERVATION PROJECTS
17吃瓜offers affiliation to civil society organizations and conservation projects as a way for them to be part of the 17吃瓜community. Applications are reviewed by ASOR鈥檚 Cultural Heritage Committee. All ASOR-affiliated projects are eligible for听Shepard Urgent Action Grants.
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Iraq
- -Civil Society Organization
P.I./Directors: Adil Al-Husseiny, Head of the Youth Save Organization; Areej Mohsen Saleh, Senior Crafts Training Expert (Heritage Crafts); Hussein Ali Hussein, Senior Program Manager and Government Liaison.
Sudan
- -Civil Society Organization
P.I./Directors: Mohamed Faroug Ali, Geoff Emberling, Michele Buzon
Dr. Carl Walsh holds a PhD in Archaeology from University College London and is an assistant exhibition curator at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. He is dedicated to crafting accessible and engaging stories about the ancient world and has curated multiple exhibitions at ISAW covering the ancient societies of Iraq, Etruria, Islamic Spain, and Egypt, as well as early modern art and photography. He has co-edited Teaching Ancient Egypt in Museums: Pedagogies in Practice, which delves into ethical best practices for engaging learners about ancient Egypt using museum objects and is currently working on a follow up volume that looks more broadly about teaching about ancient West Asia, North Africa, and the Mediterranean in museums. Carl鈥檚 research focuses on Bronze Age cross-cultural interactions and his current projects focus on the material culture鈥攕uch as board games, cosmetics, furniture, and pottery鈥攐f the kingdom of Kerma (Kush) in modern Sudan, and considers how these objects reveal the complex interactions between societies across North Africa.
Benyamin Storchan is a research excavation archaeologist for the Jerusalem Region of the Israel Antiquities Authority. He is currently a PhD candidate at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, writing a dissertation on Byzantine churches in the Holy Land during the transition to the early Islamic Period. Storchan has directed several large-scale excavations, including the Glorious Martyr excavations, the Pre- and Proto-historic settlements at Eshtaol, and landscape archaeology projects near Bet Shemesh. He has published multiple articles on Byzantine churches in the Holy Land, oil lamp production in the Roman period, and numerous final excavation reports.
Sarah Wenner, PhD, is the jointly appointed Provenance Researcher & Object Historian at the Cincinnati Art Museum and Assistant Professor at the American Center of Research (Amman, Jordan). A specialist in ancient ceramics and the Nabataeans, Wenner has worked in Jordan for over a decade, including at Petra, Humayma, Wadi Ramm, Aqaba, Khirbet al-Khalde, and Udhruh, as well as at Pompeii (Italy), Tharros (Sardinia), and Monticello (USA). Her research investigates the building of Roman cities through the recycling of ancient waste.
