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Each year at the Annual Meeting, Â鶹ֱ²¥ recognizes individuals who have performed outstanding service for the organization, those who have published exceptional academic work, and those who made significant contributions to our field. The following award recipients were honored at the 2022 Annual Meeting in Boston. Awards were presented by Lynn Welton, Chair of Â鶹ֱ²¥â€™s Honors and Awards Committee.

The W. F. Albright Award. This award honors an individual who has shown special support or made outstanding service contributions to one of the overseas centers, ACOR, AIAR, CAARI, or to one of the overseas committees – the Baghdad Committee and the Damascus Committee. This award is given when such an individual is identified.

ACOR: Awarded to John P. Oleson, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of Victoria; Member of ACOR’s Board of Trustees.

The Charles U. Harris Service Award. This award is given in recognition of long term and/or special service as an Â鶹ֱ²¥ officer or Trustee (one award is given annually).

Awarded to Richard L. Coffman, Managing Director at the Coffman Law Firm; outgoing Chair of Â鶹ֱ²¥’s Board of Trustees.

The P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award. This award honors an archaeologist who, during his/her career, has made outstanding contributions to ancient Near Eastern and eastern Mediterranean archaeology (one award is given annually).

Awarded to Glenn Schwartz, Whiting Professor of Archaeology at Johns Hopkins University.

Â鶹ֱ²¥ Membership Service Award. This award recognizes individuals who have made special contributions on behalf of the Â鶹ֱ²¥ membership, through committee, editorial, or office services.

Awarded to Helen Dixon, Assistant Professor of History, East Carolina University; outgoing Co-Chair of the Â鶹ֱ²¥ Program Committee.

Awarded to Ann-Marie Knoblauch, Associate Professor of Art History and Associate Director of the School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech University; Secretary, Â鶹ֱ²¥’s Board of Trustees and Executive Committee.

Â鶹ֱ²¥ Community Outreach and Public Engagement. This award recognizes individuals, teams, and organizations who have initiated outstanding educational, informational, or practical projects (including but not limited to classes, programs, exhibits, resources, events, platforms) with the goal of making subjects and information about the ancient world accessible to wider (particularly non-academic) audiences.

Awarded to Melissa CradicÌý²¹²Ô»å Samuel Pfister, for their virtual exhibit, Unsilencing the Archives: Laborers of the Tell en-Nasbeh Excavations (1926-1935).

To view the virtual exhibit,

The G. Ernest Wright Award. This award is given to the editor/author of the most substantial volume(s) dealing with archaeological material, excavation reports and material culture from the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean. This work must be the result of original research published within the past two years (one award is given annually).

Awarded to Andrea De Giorgi, Associate Professor, Florida State University; and Asa Eger, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; for Antioch: A History.

The Frank Moore Cross Award. This award is presented to the author/editor of the most substantial volume(s) related to the history and/or religion of the ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean. Primary consideration will be given to historical, epigraphic, textual, and comparative literary studies; or to works that advance and/or evaluate new methodological approaches to the literary record(s). This work must be the result of original research published during the past two years (one award is given annually).

Awarded to Carolina López Ruíz, Professor, University of Chicago Divinity School and Department of Classics, for Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean. 

The Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award. This award is presented to the author/editor of a book published in the last two years that offers a new synthesis of archaeological or textual evidence intended to reach an audience of scholars as well as students and the broader public (one award is given annually).

Awarded to Paul Collins, Keeper of the Middle East at the British Museum, for The Sumerians. 

The Joy Ungerleider Poster Award. This award is conferred upon the author(s) of the poster presenting the results of a study about ancient Near Eastern societies in a clear, legible fashion using original graphic content. Subject matter may be based in archaeological sciences, history, anthropology, epigraphy, ethnography, heritage or other scholarly approaches to understanding ancient people in the areas covered by Â鶹ֱ²¥ (one award is given annually).

Awarded to Brady Liss, Matthew Howland, Anthony Tamberino, Mohammad Najjar, and Thomas E. Levy, University of California San Diego, for the poster:

Student Paper Award. This award is conferred upon the author(s) of a paper presented during the Annual Meeting that conveys the results of a study about ancient Near Eastern and wider Mediterranean societies in a clear, understandable and convincing fashion. The first author and presenter of the paper must be a registered student at the time of presentation in order to be eligible for consideration for this award.

Awarded to Alia Fares, University of Cologne, Germany and Landward Research, Ireland, for the paper “Archaeology at Your Doorstep-Building Heritage Awareness on the Lebanon Mountain Trail and for Beirut’s Traumatized Youth.”