17吃瓜

UNEARTHING THE PAST SINCE 1900

Platt Fieldwork Participation Scholarships

17吃瓜plans to award eight Platt fieldwork participation scholarships of $2,000 each during 2027 (see disclaimer below).

Through a generous gift of the late Mrs. Katherine Barton Platt, scholarship funds have been designated to support the participation of 17吃瓜members as volunteers or staff on excavation projects. Scholarships for participants in any听 will be $2,000 each for the summer of 2027.

Application Deadline
February 22, 2027

听(application will open in December 2026)

Aleyna Uyanik working with the Phoenix Archaeological Project, T眉rkiye.

Eligibility

Applicants must be members of 17吃瓜or be enrolled as students at an ASOR-member school (see list of听Institutional Members). Applicants from underrepresented groups may听request a membership waiver听in order to apply. Applicants are encouraged to use the听听to apply for all of the named and unnamed听Fieldwork Participation Scholarships. Some of the named grants are designated for particular excavations (e.g., Hazor or Tell el-Hesi), for particular groups (e.g., veterans), and for particular countries (e.g., Israel or Jordan). Please check the appropriate boxes on the Uniform Application so that you can be considered for as many different scholarships sources as possible. In order to be eligible, applicants are required to participate in an ASOR-affiliated excavation (see list).

Preference will be given to individuals that have not received support through the 17吃瓜scholarship program or other funding sources for the summer of 2026. Additional preference will also be given to applicants who would not usually receive funding (for air fare, lodging or a stipend) from the excavation. Preference is also given to applicants who have not received 17吃瓜funding for excavations in the past two years.

Applications from individuals must include the contact information for the director of the excavation project.

Upon completion of the field season, a report of 250-350 words and three appropriate photos (500 dpi resolution or higher) on site must be submitted to the 17吃瓜office by September 1, 2027. Reports and photos should be sent via email听with “Platt scholarship report” in the subject line. More information will be available after the recipients have been notified.

Scholarship recipients will be required to sign a waiver indicating that 17吃瓜is not responsible for any injuries they might sustain during their time at the excavation in which they participate. They will also be required to sign a release of rights to 17吃瓜for the inclusion of their report and photographs in one of ASOR’s publications. This award may only be used for allowable direct expenses. Indirect and/or overhead expenses are not permitted.

Disclaimer: If archaeological excavations are significantly disrupted or canceled in 2027, 17吃瓜may, at its sole discretion, decide not to offer fieldwork scholarships. Fieldwork scholarships cannot be deferred; applicants may reapply either for fieldwork funding in 2028 or for non-fieldwork summer stipends if 17吃瓜offers such stipends in 2027.

Previous Recipients: $266,200 awarded

2026: $14,000 awarded
  1. Paul Bouchard, N/A
  2. A. Bryce Deskins, Florida State University
  3. Brendan Epp, University of Alberta
  4. Ella Hattem, Yale University
  5. Sulaiman Mohammed, Islamic University of Gaza
  6. Jos茅 Mar铆a Moreno Narganes, N/A
  7. Alexa O鈥橠ay, University of Iowa
2025: $18,000 awarded
  1. Koushan Amir-Khosravi, University of Toronto
  2. Marta Blanco Noel, University Rovira i Virgili
  3. Bochay Drum, Brown University
  4. Aidan Gregg, Butler University
  5. Autumn Koehling, University of Louisville
  6. Andrew Rivadeneira, University of Arizona
  7. Aleyna Uyanik, Johannes Gutenberg University
  8. Nicolette Valdes, University of Memphis
  9. Helen Wong, University of Pennsylvania
2024: $18,000 awarded
  1. Alessandra Dominguez, University of Pennsylvania
  2. Malath Faedha, University of Al-Qadisiyah
  3. Suzanne Gilles, Ecole Du Louvre
  4. Lorenzo Guardiano, University of Milan
  5. Claire Hook, University of Colorado, Boulder
  6. Dominique Langis-Barsetti, University of Toronto
  7. Mariah Miller, University of Toronto
  8. Ofelia Tychon, University College London
  9. Leopoldo Zampiccoli, New York University
2023: $16,000 awarded
  1. Barbara Anglisz, New York University
  2. Thomas Barrett, Brigham Young University
  3. Ana Barun Coscia, Boston University
  4. Nicola Lanzaro, Sapienza University of Rome
  5. David Mulder, University of Pennsylvania
  6. Lea Rees, University of Oxford
  7. Danielle Tutak, University of Michigan
  8. Syeda Zehra, University of Toronto
2022: $18,500 awarded
  1. Tucker Deady, University of Toronto
  2. Sarah Foster, Calvin University
  3. Rosemary Hanson, University of Glasgow
  4. Charles Hughes-Huff, University of Chicago
  5. Emily Kerkhof, Asbury Theological Seminary
  6. Alice Kligerman, Florida State University
  7. Domizia Paolucci, La Sapienza University, Rome
  8. Arthur Viola, Andrews University
  9. Emma Wagner, North Carolina State University
  10. Rachel Webberman, University of California, Berkeley
2021: $17,500 awarded
  1. Wajd Alzakwani, University of Evansville (Summer Stipend)
  2. Shannon Burton, University of Michigan (Summer Stipend)
  3. Ruby Denneen, Oberlin College (Summer Stipend)
  4. Olivia Golubowski, Brown University (Summer Stipend)
  5. Valentina Grasso, University of Cambridge (Summer Stipend)
  6. Jane Holmstrom, University of Central Florida (Summer Stipend)
  7. Sohel Islam, Durham University (Summer Stipend)
  8. Lauren Malkoun, University of Southern California (Summer Stipend)
  9. Laurel Poolman, Johns Hopkins University (Summer Stipend)
  10. Steven Porson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte (Summer Stipend)
2019: $14,000 awarded
  1. Nicole Castanon, La Sierra University
  2. Elizabeth Emswiler, Andrews University
  3. Geoffrey Hedges-Knyrim, University of Connecticut
  4. , University of British Columbia
  5. Nathan Lovejoy, New York University
  6. Michael Stewart-Bernard, California State University, Sacramento
  7. Sara Zaia, Harvard University
2018: $12,000 awarded
  1. Sana Chowdhry, University of Pittsburgh
  2. Jacob Damm, University of California, Los Angeles
  3. Kathleen Downey, The Ohio State University
  4. Maria Gajewska, University College London
  5. , New York University
  6. , Arizona Christian University
2017: $16,000 awarded
  1. , Miami University
  3. , Cornell University
  4. , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  5. , Brigham Young University
  6. Vivian Laughlin, Andrews University
  7. Paige Paulsen, University of Central Florida
  8. 听Macquarie University
2016: $16,000 awarded
  1. Louise Bertini, American University in Cairo
  2. , University of British Columbia
  3. , Emory University
  4. Anna Kim, Andrews University
  5. , North Carolina State University
  6. , Brown University
  7. , Andrews University
  8. , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2015: $16,000 awarded
  1. Stephen Humphreys, Durham University
  2. , Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
  3. , University of California, Los Angeles
  4. , University of Maryland University College
  5. Matthew Lankiewicz, The Johns Hopkins University
  6. , Brown University
  7. , University of British Columbia
  8. , University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  9. , Boston University
  10. , River Plate University, Argentina
  11. , University of Pennsylvania
  12. Michael Orellana Mendez, Andrews University
  13. Joseph M. Pacheco, Jr., University of Haifa
  14. Alexander Ramos, University of Pennsylvania
  15. , Grand Valley State University
  16. , William Jessup University
2014: $14,000 awarded
  1. , University of California, Los Angeles
  2. , Brown University
  3. , The Ohio State University
  4. , East Carolina University
  5. , Azusa Pacific University
  6. , University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  7. , Missouri State University
  8. J. Dwayne Howell, Campbellsville University
  9. , Andrews University
  10. , The Ohio State University
  11. , Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
  12. , Sapienza University of Rome
  13. Philip Strosahl, New York University
  14. David Wheeler, University of Glasgow
2013: $15,000 awarded
  1. Jessica Burk, University of Arkansas
  2. , Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
  3. , Lycoming College
  4. Gregory Grossholz, Gannon University
  5. , University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  6. , Boston University
  7. , University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  8. Christopher Kim, Brown University
  9. Kaitlynn Mickus, University of Evansville
  10. , University of Pennsylvania
  11. Martha Schulz, University of Bonn
  12. , Argentine National Research Council
  13. , University of Arizona
  14. Amanda Wissler, University of California, Berkeley
  15. Jesse Wolfhagen, Stony Brook University
2012*: $12,000 awarded
  1. , University of California, Berkeley
  2. Nadia Ben-Marzouk, University of California, Los Angeles
  3. , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  4. , University of California, Berkeley
  5. , Cornell University
  6. , University of Puerto Rico
  7. Nicolas Gauthier, Boston University
  8. , University of Chicago
  9. , University of Arkansas
  10. , University of Leuven
  11. Carolyn Swan, Brown University
  12. Jennifer Swerida, Johns Hopkins University
  13. Clive Vella, Brown University

*Funds distributed to 12 Fellows

2011: $13,000 awarded
  1. Heidi Dodgen, Jewish Theological Seminary
  2. , The University of Western Ontario
  3. , University of Toronto
  4. Alex Knodell, Brown University
  5. Lora Korynta
  6. , Lycoming College
  7. , The College of William & Mary
  8. Cherie Lynn Milliron, Southern Adventist University
  9. , Andrews University
  10. , Brigham Young University
  11. , Pennsylvania State University
  13. , University College London
2010: $9,000 awarded
  1. Jessa Fowler, Willamette University
  2. Brittany Jackson
  3. Jacob Rennaker, Claremont Graduate University
  4. Gerald Manderscheid
  5. Ryan Bennett, Missouri State University
  6. Rachel Bisaro, Boston University
  7. Michael P. Ellingsen, Trinity International University
  8. Walter Crist, Arizona State University
  9. Zachary Devlin, Pennsylvania State University
2009: $6,000 awarded
  1. Sarah Costello, University of Houston
  2. Morag M. Kersel, Brown University
  3. Matthew McRae
  4. George Pierce, University of California, Los Angeles
  5. Max Price, University of Chicago
  6. M. Barbara Reeves, Queen鈥檚 University
2008: $13,200 awarded
  1. Carolyn Nakamura Aldrich, Columbia University
  2. Ilya Berelov, Arizona State University
  3. Stephanie Brown, North Carolina State University
  4. Zuzana Chovanec, University at Albany
  5. Catherine Foster, University of California, Berkley
  6. Eric Jensen, University of Arkansas
  7. Tammi Mills, The University of Lethbridge
  8. Robert J. Stark, University of Alberta
  9. Rhian Stotts, Arizona State University
  10. Tasha Vorderstrasse, Netherlands Institute of the Near East (NINO)
  11. Chantel White, Boston University
2007: $8,000 awarded
  1. Kevin Cooney, Boston University
  2. Robbyn Gordon
  3. Emily Louise Hammer, Harvard University
  4. Christopher B. Hays, Emory University
  5. Melanie Poupart
  6. Alexandra Ratzlaff, Boston University
  7. Sherry Robison
  8. Elizabeth Warkentin
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