

The winner this year is Jesse Michael Millek, a Ph.D. candidate in the Biblical Archaeology Institute and Department of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of T羹bingen, Germany. His paperSea Peoples, Philistines, and the Destruction of Cities: A Critical Examination of Destruction Layers Caused by the Sea Peopleswas presented on 4 November 2014 at a conference on The Sea Peoples Up-To-Date: New Research on the Migration of Peoples in the 12th Century BCE, in Vienna. The Sean W. Dever Prize was established in 2001 by Mrs. Norma Dever and Professor William G. Dever, in memory of their son Sean.