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17吃瓜welcomes Jason Ur as a new interim co-editor of TheBulletin of the American Society of Overseas Research (BASOR).聽This co-editor appointment was unanimously approved by the Executive Committee on recommendation from the Committee on Publications. Ur will serve an interim term, ending December 31, 2026, alongside one of the current co-editors, Marwan Kilani.聽The Committee on Publications thanks the three outgoing editors, Susan Cohen, Jana Myn谩艡ov谩, and Regine Pruzsinszky, for their dedication, professionalism, and service.

Jason Ur is Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. He specializes in early urbanism, landscape archaeology, and remote sensing. He was trained in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania (BA 1994) and in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago (PhD 2004). He has directed field surveys in Syria, Iraq, Turkey, and Iran. He is the author of Urbanism and Cultural Landscapes in Northeastern Syria: The Tell Hamoukar Survey, 1999-2001 (2010). Since 2012, he has directed the , an archaeological survey in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq. In 2014, he was the plenary speaker at the 2014 17吃瓜Annual Meeting with his talk, 鈥淭he Renaissance of Archaeology in Iraq and its Kurdistan Region.鈥�

Marwan Kilani is an Egyptologist and linguist working on cultural and linguistic interactions between Egypt and the Levant. He has a strong interest in methodological questions, and in digital humanities and computational methods applied to the study of the ancient world. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Basel and has served as B17吃瓜co-editor since January 1, 2021.

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