PREVIOUS AWARD RECIPIENTS
2023 Recipients
- Community Engagement and Public Outreach Award: Marilyn Lundberg Melzian
- The Charles U. Harris Service Award: Paul Flesher
- The P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award:Bethany Walker
- ASOR Membership Service Award:Leigh Anne Lieberman, Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, and Melissa Cradic,
- ASOR Membership Service Award: Piotr Michalowski
- ASOR Membership Service Award:Beth Alpert Nakhai
- The G. Ernest Wright Award: James Osborne,The Syro-Anatolian City States: An Iron Age Culture (Oxford University Press)
- The Frank Moore Cross Award: Megan Nutzman,Contested Cures: Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine(Edinburgh University Press)
- The Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award: Amanda H. Podany,Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East (Oxford University Press)
- The Joy Ungerleider Poster Award: Efrat Nakash,
- Student Paper Award: Morganne Ottobre, “Between Two Cultures: Translation and Multimodality in the Tell Fekheriyeh Inscription”
2022 Recipients
- The W. F. Albright Award (ACOR): John P. Oleson
- The Charles U. Harris Service Award: Richard L. Coffman
- The P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award: Glenn Schwartz
- ASOR Membership Service Award: Helen Dixon
- ASOR Membership Service Award: Ann-Marie Knoblauch
- ASOR Community Outreach and Public Engagement: Melissa Cradic and Samuel Pfister,
- The G. Ernest Wright Award: Andrea De Giorgi and A.Asa Eger,Antioch: A History(Taylor & Francis)
- The Frank Moore Cross Award: Carolina López Ruíz, Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean(Harvard University Press)
- The Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award: Paul Collins, The Sumerians(Reaktion Books)
- The Joy Ungerleider Poster Award: Brady Liss, Matthew Howland, Anthony Tamberino, Mohammad Najjar, and Thomas E. Levy, “.”
- Student Paper Award:Alia Fares, “Archaeology at Your Doorstep-Building Heritage Awareness on the Lebanon Mountain Trail and for Beirut’s Traumatized Youth.”
2021 Recipients
- The Charles U. Harris Service Award: Sheila Bishop
- ASOR Membership Service Award: Hanan Charaf
- ASOR Membership Service Award: Kate Grossman
- ASOR Membership Service Award: Heather McKee
- The W. F. Albright Service Award (ACOR): Oystein LaBianca
- The W. F. Albright Service Award (AIAR): Susan Cohen
- The W. F. Albright Service Award (CAARI): F. Bryan Wilkins
- The P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award: Andrea Berlin
- The Frank Moore Cross Award: Geoffrey Khan, The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew (Open Book Publishers)
- The Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award: Max Price, Evolution of a Taboo: Pigs and People in the Ancient Near East (Oxford University Press)
- The G. Ernest Wright Award: Allison Mickel, Why Those Who Shovel Are Silent: A History of Local Archaeological Knowledge and Labor (University Press of Colorado)
- The Joy Ungerleider Poster Award: Emily L. Simons, “.”
- Student Paper Award: Gretchen Emma Zoeller, A Paleopathological Investigation of Amputation in Ancient Nubia.
2020 Recipients
- ASOR Membership Service Award: Laura Mazow
- ASOR Membership Service Award: Emily Miller Bonney
- ASOR Membership Service Award: Christopher Rollston and Eric H. Cline
- The W. F. Albright Service Award (ACOR): Nisreen Abu al-Shaikh
- The W. F. Albright Service Award (CAARI): Achilleas Demetriades
- The W. F. Albright Service Award (Damascus Committee): Lisa Cooper
- The P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award:Mary M. Voigt
- The Frank Moore Cross Award: Theodore J. Lewis, The Origin and Character of God: Ancient Israelite Religion Through the Lens of Divinity (Oxford University Press)
- The Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award: D. Fairchild Ruggles, Tree of Pearls: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar al-Durr (Oxford University Press)
- The G. Ernest Wright Award: Raphael Greenberg, The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant: From Urban Origins to the Demise of City-States, 3700-1000 BCE (Cambridge University Press)
- ASOR Special Recognition Book Award:Pınar Durgun, An Educator’s Handbook for Teaching ϲʿֱ the Ancient World (Archaeopress)
- The Joy Ungerleider Poster Award: Rachel Banks, Cassandra DeGaglia, Amy Dixon, Kara Larson, and James Hardin, The Spaces Between: Spatial Reconstruction of a Proposed Iron Age IIB Domestic House at Tel Halif, Israel
- Student Paper Award: Noam Cohen, How to Talk about Domestic Abuse in Old Babylonian
2019 Recipients
- The Richard J. Scheuer Medal: Susan Ackerman
- The Charles U. Harris Service Award: Lawrence T. Geraty
- ASOR Membership Service Award: Gary Arbino
- ASOR Membership Service Award: Geoff Emberling
- ASOR Membership Service Award: Randall (Randy) Younker
- The W. F. Albright Service Award (ACOR): Randolph B. Old
- The W. F. Albright Service Award (CAARI): Birgitta Lindros Wohl
- The P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award: Amnon Ben-Tor
- The Frank Moore Cross Award: Sidnie White Crawford for Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran (Wm. B. Eerdmans)
- The Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award: Kara Cooney for When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt (National Geographic)
- The G. Ernest Wright Award: Assaf Yasur-Landau, Eric H. Cline, and Yorke M. Rowan for The Social Archaeology of the Levant (Cambridge University Press)
- The Joy Ungerleider Poster Award: Christopher J. Davey, Luis R. Siddall, Carla A. Raymond, and Joseph J. Bevitt forHidden Text: Imaging and reading an ancient tablet in an envelope
2018 Recipients
- The Charles U. Harris Service Award: Lynn Swartz Dodd
- ASOR Membership Service Award: Charles E. Jones
- ASOR Membership Service Award: Jonathan Rosenbaum
- ASOR Membership Service Award: Thomas Schneider
- The W. F. Albright Service Award (ACOR): Barbara A. Porter
- The W. F. Albright Service Award (AIAR): Sidnie White Crawford
- The P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award: Aren M. Maeir
- The Frank Moore Cross Award: Matthew J. Suriano for A History of Death in the Hebrew Bible
- The Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award: Eric H. Cline for Three Stones Make a Wall
- The G. Ernest Wright Award: James A. Fraser for Dolmens in the Levant
- The Joy Ungerleider Poster Award: Morag Kersel, Marly Prom, and Students in ANT256 (DePaul University) for Where Are They Now? Following Pots into Archives, Educational Institutions, and Museum Vitrines
2017 Recipients
- The Charles U. Harris Service Award: Carol Meyers
- ASOR Membership Service Award:Rachel Hallote
- ASOR Membership Service Award:Lawrence “Larry” Geraty
- ASOR Membership Service Award:Erin and Robert Darby
- ASOR Special Service Award:James “Jim” Eisenbraun
- The W. F. Albright Service Award (ACOR):H.R.H. Prince Raad Zeid Al-Hussein
- The W. F. Albright Service Award (AIAR):Sharon Herbert
- The W. F. Albright Service Award (CAARI):Andrew P. McCarthy
- The P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award:Israel Finkelstein
- The Frank Moore Cross Award:Sara J. MilsteinforTracking the Master Scribe: Revision through Introduction in Biblical and Mesopotamian Literature
- The Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award:Patrick E. McGovernforAncient Brews: Rediscovered and Re-created
- The G. Ernest Wright Award:Glenn SchwartzforRural Archaeology in Early Urban Northern Mesopotamia: Excavations at Tell al-Raqa’i
- The Joy Ungerleider Poster Award:Rebecca Seifried andChelsea A. M. GardnerforThe Value of Travelers’ Itineraries in Archaeological Research: A GIS Analysis of Pathways through the Mani Peninsula, Greece
- The Richard J. Scheuer Medal: William G. Dever
2016 Recipients
- The Charles U. Harris Service Award: Vivian Bull
- ASOR Membership Service Award: Sheila Bishop
- ASOR Membership Service Award: Doug Clark
- ASOR Membership Service Award: Eric Cline
- The W. F. Albright Service Award (ACOR): Humi Ayoubi
- The W. F. Albright Service Award (AIAR): John Spencer
- The P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award: Larry Herr
- The Frank Moore Cross Award: Mark Smith for Where the God Are, Spatial Dimensions of Anthropomorphism in the Biblical World (Yale University Press)
- The Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award: Reinhard Pummer, for The Samaritans, A Profile(Eerdmans)
- The G. Ernest Wright Award: Seymour Gitin (ed.), for The Ancient Pottery of Israel and its Neighbors from the Iron Age through the Hellenistic Period (IES)
- The Joy Ungerleider Poster Award: Robert S. Homsher, Adam B. Prins, Melissa S. Cradic and Matthew J. Adams, for New Dimensions in Digital Documentation: Tomb 50 of Megiddo
2015 Recipients
- The Charles U. Harris Service Award: Stevan Dana
- ASOR Membership Service Award: Orlyn Nelson
- ASOR Membership Service Award: Joseph Greene
- ASOR Membership Service Award: Lynn Swartz Dodd
- The W. F. Albright Service Award (ACOR): Mohammed Adawi
- The W. F. Albright Service Award (AIAR): J. P. Dessel
- The W. F. Albright Service Award (Baghdad Committee): Marian Feldman
- The W. F. Albright Service Award (CAARI): Annemarie Weyl-Carr
- The P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award: Michele Daviau
- The Frank Moore Cross Award: Eugene Ulrich for The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Developmental Composition of the Bible (Brill)
- The Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award: Jacob L. Wright for David, King of Israel, and Caleb in Biblical Memory (Cambridge University Press)
- The G. Ernest Wright Award: A. Asa Eger for The Islamic-Byzantine Frontier: Interaction and Exchange Among Muslim and Christian Communities (I.B. Tauris Publishers)
- The Joy Ungerleider Poster Award: Petra Creamer (University of Pennsylvania) for The Apotropaic Nature of Old Babylonian Terracotta Plaques
2014 Recipients
The Richard J. Scheuer Medal: Timothy P. Harrison
The Charles U. Harris Service Award: Norma Kershaw
The P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award: Carol L. Meyers
The W. F. Albright Service Award (Baghdad Committee): Piotr Michalowski
The W. F. Albright Service Award (CAARI): Raymond C. Ewing
The W. F. Albright Service Award (ACOR): Christopher A. Tuttle
The ASOR Membership Service Award: Gary P. Arbino
The ASOR Membership Service Award: Oystein LaBianca
The G. Ernest Wright Publications Award: Benjamin W. Porter for the book Complex Communities: The Archaeology of Early Iron Age West-Central Jordan, University of Arizona Press, 2013
The Frank Moore Cross Award: Nicholas Postgate for the book Bronze Age Bureaucracy: Writing and the Practice of Government in Assyria, Cambridge University Press, 2013
The ASOR Popular Book Award: Eric H. Cline for the book 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed, Princeton University Press, 2014
The ASOR Annual Meeting Poster Award: Blair Heidkamp, Gabrielle Borenstein, and Joyce Fountain for the poster The Final Season: Marj Rabba 2014
2013 Recipients
The Richard J. Scheuer Medal: Seymour Gitin
The Charles U. Harris Service Award: Jennie Ebeling
The P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award: Amihai Mazar
The W. F. Albright Service Award: Joan Branham
The ASOR Special Service Award: Jim Weinstein
The ASOR Membership Service Award: Elise Friedland and Andrew M. Smith II
The ASOR Membership Service Award: Beth Alpert Nakhai
The G. Ernest Wright Publications Award: Phillip C. Edwards for the book Wadi Hammeh 27, an Early Natufian Settlement at Pella in Jordan, Brill, 2013.
The Frank Moore Cross Award: Frederick J. Murphy for the book Apocalypticism in the Bible and Its World: A Comprehensive Introduction, Baker Academic, 2012.
2012 Recipients
W.F. Albright Award: J. Edward Wright.
G. Ernest Wright Publication Award: Oded Lipshitz and David Vanderhooft for the book The Yehud Stamp Impressions: A Corpus of Inscribed Impressions from the Persian and Hellenistic Periods in Judah.
Frank Moore Cross Award: James C. VanderKam for the book The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible.
2011 Recipients
Ten Years of Service to ASOR – Selma Omerefendic
The Charles U. Harris Service Award – Sheldon Fox
G. Ernest Wright Publication Award – Aaron Burke, Martin Peilstöker and Aren Maeir
The Richard J. Scheuer Medal – Lydie Shufro
The Frank Moore Cross Award – Christopher Rollston
2010 Recipients
Membership Service Award – Michael Homan
W.F. Albright Award (CAARI) – Nan Frederick
The P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award – Edgar Peltenberg
G. Ernest Wright Publication Award –Aharon Sasson, Animal Husbandry in Ancient Israel: A Zooarchaeological Perspective on Livestock Exploitation, Herd Management and Economic Strategies (Equinox Publishing 2010)
The Frank Moore Cross Award – Seth Sanders
2009 Recipients
Membership Service Awards – Tammi Schneider and Ann Killebrew
Charles U. Harris Service Award – Orlyn Nelson
G. Ernest Wright Publication Award – Alan Simmons
W.F. Albright Award (CAARI) – Gus Feissel
The P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award – Seymour Gitin
The Frank Moore Cross Award – Ron E. Tappy and P. Kyle McCarter, Jr., Editors
Literate Culture and Tenth-Century Canaan, The Tel Zayit Abecedary in Context, Eisenbrauns (Winona Lake, IN) 2008
2008 Recipients
G. Ernest Wright Publication Award – Avraham Faust, Israel’s Ethnogenesis
Charles U. Harris Service Award – Robert J. Bull
W.F. Albright Award (CAARI) – Stuart Swiny
W.F. Albright Award (AIAR) – Lydie Shufro
Membership Service Award – Jeffrey Blakely
2007 Recipients
Richard J. Scheuer Medal – Eric M. Meyers
P.E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award – Alan H. Simmons
G. Ernest Wright Publication Award – Amihai Mazar – Tel Beth Shean Excavation Reports
Frank Moore Cross Publication Award – Bruce Lincoln – Religion, Empire and Torture
Charles U. Harris Service Award – B. W. Ruffner
W.F. Albright Award (ACOR) – Bert DeVries
Membership Service Award – Morag Kersel
2006 Recipients
Richard J. Scheuer Medal – Joe Seger
P.E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award – Kenneth Holum
G. Ernest Wright Publication Award – Ann E. Killebrew
Frank Moore Cross Publication Award – Gordon Hamilton
W.F. Albright Award (AIAR) – Sidnie White Crawford
Charles U. Harris Service Award – James Strange
Membership Service Award – Albert Leonard, Jr.
Special Service Award – James P. Joseph, Esq.
Special Service Award – Arnold & Porter, LLP
2005 Recipients
Richard J. Scheuer Medals – Pierre and Patricia Bikai
P.E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award – Roger Boraas
G. Ernest Wright Publication Award – Burton MacDonald
Frank Moore Cross Publication Award – Mark Smith
Charles U. Harris Service Award – David Rosenstein
W.F. Albright Award (CAARI) – David Detrich
W.F. Albright Award (AIAR) – Daniel Wolk
Membership Service Award – Piotr Michalowski
Membership Service Award – Sharon Steadman
Membership Service Award – Gloria London
2004 Recipients
P.E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award – Gary Rollefson
G. Ernest Wright Publication Award – Larry Herr
Frank Moore Cross Publication Award – Ziony Zevit
W.F. Albright Award (CAARI) – Vathoulla Moustoukki
W.F. Albright Award (ACOR) – S. Thomas Parker
Membership Service Award – Jonathan Tubb
Membership Service Award – Albert Leonard, Jr.
Special Recognition Award – Elizabeth Stone
Special Recognition Award – Dick Ballou
2003 Recipients
P.E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award – Thomas Levy
G. Ernest Wright Publication Award – Beth Alpert Nakhai
Frank Moore Cross Publication Award – Michael Homan
W.F. Albright Award (AIAR) – Norma Dever
W.F. Albright Award (CAARI) – Ellen Herscher
W.F. Albright Award (ACOR) – David McCreery
Membership Service Award – Rudolph Dornemann
Membership Service Award – Ann E. Killebrew
Membership Service Award – Victor Matthews
2002 Recipients
Richard Scheuer Medal – Walter Rast
P.E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award – Elizabeth C. Stone
G. Ernest Wright Publication Award – Edward F. Campbell, Jr.
Frank Moore Cross Publication Award – Ehud Netzer
W.F. Albright Award (AIAR) – Robert Haak
W.F. Albright Award (CAARI) – Andrew Oliver
Membership Service Award – Harold O. Forshey
2001 Recipients
Charles U. Harris Service Award – William G. Dever
G. Ernest Wright Publication Award – Michel Fortin
Frank Moore Cross Publication Award – Baruch Halpern
W.F. Albright Award (ACOR) – Patricia Bikai
W.F. Albright Award (AIAR) – John Spencer
W.F. Albright Award (CAARI) – Nancy Serwint
Membership Service Award – Nancy Frederick
Membership Service Award – Jodi Magness
2000 Recipients
Charles U. Harris Service Award – Philip J. King
P.E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award – Lawrence Geraty
W. F. Albright Award (ACOR) – Pierre Bikai
W.F. Albright Award (AIAR) – Sy Gitin
Membership Service Award – Billie Jean Collins
Membership Service Award – Lydie Shufro
Membership Service Award – Robert J. Bull
1999 Recipients
Charles U. Harris Service Award – Robert Hohlfelder
P.E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award – Martha Sharp Joukowsky
W. F. Albright Award (AIAR) – Patty Gerstenblith
Membership Service Award – James Weinstein
Membership Service Award – Norma Dever
1998 Recipients
Charles U. Harris Award – Walter E. Rast
P.E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award – Lawrence E. Toombs
G. Ernest Wright Publication Award – Steven A. Rosen
Frank Moore Cross Publication Award – Ronald S. Hendel
W. F. Albright Award (ACOR) – Nancy L. Lapp
W. F. Albright Award (CAARI) – Giraud V. Foster
W. F. Albright Award (AIAR) – James F. Ross
Membership Service Award – Anne Ogilvy
Membership Service Award – David C. Hopkins
Membership Service Award – Jonathan N. Tubb
1997 Recipients
Richard J. Scheuer Medal – Norma Kershaw
Charles U. Harris Service Award – Ernest S. Frerichs
P.E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award – William G. Dever
G. Ernest Wright Publication Award – Eric M. Meyers
Frank Moore Cross Publication Award – James H. Charlesworth
W. F. Albright Award (ACOR) – Artemis A. W. Joukowsky
W. F. Albright Award (CAARI) – Stuart Swiny
Membership Service Award – Carolyn Draper Rivers
Membership Service Award – R. Thomas Schaub
1996 Recipients
Richard J. Scheuer Medal – P.E. MacAllister
Previous Recipients
1994 Richard J. Scheuer Medal – Charles Harris and Joy Ungerleider Mayerson
1989 Richard J. Scheuer Medal – Richard J. Scheuer