2021
Avraham Yoskovich, Ph.D. candidate in the General History Department at Haifa University. His paper, “The Huqoq Mosaic: Re-considering the Biblical Interpretation,” was presented at the 11th Conference of the European Association for Jewish Studies (Krakow, 2018).
2020
Abra Spiciarich, Ph.D. candidate in the Nadler Institute of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University. Her paper, “Birds in Transition: Bird Exploitation during the Late Bronze Age, Iron Age I, and Iron Age II,” will be published in the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 383 (2020).
2019
Assaf Kleiman, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University. His paper, “Comments on the Archaeology and History of Tell el-Far’ah North (Biblical Tirzah) in the Iron IIA,” was published in Semitica 60 (2018): 85-104.
2018
Andrew Burlingame, Ph.D. candidate in Northwest Semitic Philology in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. His paper, “Line Five of the Amman Citadel Inscription: History of Interpretation and a New Proposal” was published in the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 376 (2016): 63–82.
2017
Liat Naeh, Ph.D. candidate at The Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Her paper, “In Search of Identity: The Contribution of Recent Finds to Our Understanding of Iron Age Ivory Objects in the Material Culture of the Southern Levant” was published in Altorientalische Forschungen, 42/1: 80–96 (2015).
2016
Shlomit Bechar, Ph.D. candidate in the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Her paper, A Reanalysis of the Black Wheel-Made Ware of the Intermediate Bronze Age, was published in Tel Aviv, 42: 26-58 (2015).
2015
Jesse Michael Millek, Ph.D candidate in the Biblical Archaeology Institute and Department of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Tübingen, Germany. His paper, “Sea Peoples, Philistines, and the Destruction of Cities: A Critical Examination of Destruction Layers ‘Caused’ by the ‘Sea Peoples’” was presented in 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.
2014
Josephine A. Verduci, Ph.D. candidate in the Classics and Archaeology Department in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her paper, “A Feather in Your Cap: Symbols of Philistine Warrior Status” was presented in November 2013 at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research in Baltimore.
2013
Heather Dana Davis Parker, PhD candidate, Northwest Semitics and Hebrew Bible, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Johns Hopkins University; and Ashley Fiutko Arico, PhD candidate, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Johns Hopkins University. Their paper, “A Moabite-Inscribed Statue Fragment from Kerak: Possible Egyptian Parallels” was given at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, and at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature.
2012
Robert S. Homsher, UCL Institute of Archaeology. His paper, “Mud-Bricks, Construction and the Process of Urbanization in the Middle Bronze Age Levant” was given at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research.
2011
Helen R. Jacobus, University of Manchester. Her paper, 4Q318: A Jewish Zodiac Calendar at Qumran was published in The Dead Sea Scrolls: Texts and Contexts, ed. C. Hempl (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 90; Leiden: Brill, 2010), pp. 365-95.
2009
Jonathan S. Greer, Pennsylvania State University. His paper, “An Israelite Mizrāq at Tel Dan?” was given at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature.
2008
Lucy Wadeson, Keble College, Oxford University. Her paper, “Chariots of Fire: Elijah and the Zodiac in Synagogue Floor Mosaics of Late Antique Palestine” was published in Aram, 20: 1-41 (2008).
2007
James F. Osborne, Harvard University. His paper, “The Bench Tomb in Iron Age Judah: Secondary Mortuary Practice and Social Values” was given at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research.
2006
Adam Kolman Marshak, Yale University, “The Dated Coins of Herod the Great: Towards a New Chronology.”
2005
John D.M. Green, Institute of Archaeology, University College London. His paper, “Anklets and the Construction of Gender and Age in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Southern Levant” was given at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research.
2004
Laura B. Mazow, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Arizona. Her paper, “Competing Material Culture: Philistine Settlement at Tel Miqne-Ekron in the Early Iron Age” was given at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research.
2003
Christine M. Thompson, Department of Classics and Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA. Her paper, “Sealed Silver in Iron Age Cisjordan and the ‘Invention’ of Coinage” was published in Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 22/1: 67-107 (2003).
2002
Juan Manuel Tebes, School of Philosophy and Linguistics, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. His paper, “A New Analysis of the Iron Age I ‘Chiefdom’ of Tel Masos (Beersheba Valley)” was published in: XIV Jornadas de Becarios de Investigacion, Secretaria de Ciéncia y Tecnica, Universidad de Buenos Aires; Aula Orientalis.
2001
Edward Maher, University of Illinois. His paper, “Food for the Gods: The Identification of Sacrificial Faunal Assemblages in the Ancient Near East” was given at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research.
