Platt Fieldwork Participation Scholarships
ASOR plans to award nine Platt fieldwork participation scholarships of $2,000 each during 2025 (see COVID disclaimer below).
Through a generous gift of the late Mrs. Katherine Barton Platt, scholarship funds have been designated to support the participation of ASOR members as volunteers or staff on excavation projects. Scholarships for participants in any will be $2,000 each for the summer of 2025.
Eligibility
Applicants must be members of ASOR or be enrolled as students at an ASOR-member school (see list of Institutional Members). Applicants from underrepresented groups may request a membership waiver in order to apply. Applicants are encouraged to use the to apply for all of the named and unnamed 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., BIPOC and 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 ASOR scholarship program or other funding sources for the summer of 2025. 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 ASOR 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 ASOR office by September 1, 2025. Reports and photos should be sent via email 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 ASOR 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 ASOR 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.
COVID disclaimer: If the ongoing COVID pandemic, or any other reason, does not allow for many archaeological excavations to take place during 2025, ASOR may at its sole discretion decide not to offer fieldwork scholarships. If ASOR deems such a decision as necessary, applicants may reapply for non-fieldwork summer stipends if ASOR offers stipends for 2025. Regrettably, applicants and successful applicants may not postpone fieldwork scholarships to another year if the applicant or ASOR decides that fieldwork scholarships will not be awarded in 2025. If the pandemic or any other reason causes a cancellation of fieldwork in 2025, applicants must reapply for funding in 2026 (or for stipends if they are made available in 2025).
Previous Recipients: $216,200 awarded
2023: $16,000 awarded
- Barbara Anglisz, New York University
- Thomas Barrett, Brigham Young University
- Ana Barun Coscia, Boston University
- Nicola Lanzaro, Sapienza University of Rome
- David Mulder, University of Pennsylvania
- Lea Rees, University of Oxford
- Danielle Tutak, University of Michigan
- Syeda Zehra, University of Toronto
2022: $18,500 awarded
- Tucker Deady, University of Toronto
- Sarah Foster, Calvin University
- Rosemary Hanson, University of Glasgow
- Charles Hughes-Huff, University of Chicago
- Emily Kerkhof, Asbury Theological Seminary
- Alice Kligerman, Florida State University
- Domizia Paolucci, La Sapienza University, Rome
- Arthur Viola, Andrews University
- Emma Wagner, North Carolina State University
- Rachel Webberman, University of California, Berkeley
2021: $17,500 awarded
- Wajd Alzakwani, University of Evansville (Summer Stipend)
- Shannon Burton, University of Michigan (Summer Stipend)
- Ruby Denneen, Oberlin College (Summer Stipend)
- Olivia Golubowski, Brown University (Summer Stipend)
- Valentina Grasso, University of Cambridge (Summer Stipend)
- Jane Holmstrom, University of Central Florida (Summer Stipend)
- Sohel Islam, Durham University (Summer Stipend)
- Lauren Malkoun, University of Southern California (Summer Stipend)
- Laurel Poolman, Johns Hopkins University (Summer Stipend)
- Steven Porson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte (Summer Stipend)
2019: $14,000 awarded
- Nicole Castanon, La Sierra University
- Elizabeth Emswiler, Andrews University
- Geoffrey Hedges-Knyrim, University of Connecticut
- Amber Leenders, University of British Columbia
- Nathan Lovejoy, New York University
- Michael Stewart-Bernard, California State University, Sacramento
- Sara Zaia, Harvard University
2018: $12,000 awarded
- Sana Chowdhry, University of Pittsburgh
- Jacob Damm, University of California, Los Angeles
- Kathleen Downey, The Ohio State University
- Maria Gajewska, University College London
- Nancy Highcock, New York University
- Austin Richards, Arizona Christian University
2017: $16,000 awarded
- Megan Ashbrook, Miami University
- Vincent Cason
- Andrew Crocker, Cornell University
- Emily Gray, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Jake Hubbert, Brigham Young University
- Vivian Laughlin, Andrews University
- Paige Paulsen, University of Central Florida
- Zachary Thomas, Macquarie University
2016: $16,000 awarded
- Louise Bertini, American University in Cairo
- , University of British Columbia
- , Emory University
- Anna Kim, Andrews University
- , North Carolina State University
- , Brown University
- , Andrews University
- , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2015: $16,000 awarded
- Stephen Humphreys, Durham University
- , Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
- , University of California, Los Angeles
- , University of Maryland University College
- Matthew Lankiewicz, The Johns Hopkins University
- , Brown University
- , University of British Columbia
- , University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- , Boston University
- , River Plate University, Argentina
- , University of Pennsylvania
- Michael Orellana Mendez, Andrews University
- Joseph M. Pacheco, Jr., University of Haifa
- Alexander Ramos, University of Pennsylvania
- , Grand Valley State University
- , William Jessup University
2014: $14,000 awarded
- , University of California, Los Angeles
- , Brown University
- , The Ohio State University
- , East Carolina University
- , Azusa Pacific University
- , University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- , Missouri State University
- J. Dwayne Howell, Campbellsville University
- , Andrews University
- , The Ohio State University
- , Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
- , Sapienza University of Rome
- Philip Strosahl, New York University
- David Wheeler, University of Glasgow
2013: $15,000 awarded
- Jessica Burk, University of Arkansas
- , Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
- , Lycoming College
- Gregory Grossholz, Gannon University
- , University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- , Boston University
- , University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Christopher Kim, Brown University
- Kaitlynn Mickus, University of Evansville
- , University of Pennsylvania
- Martha Schulz, University of Bonn
- , Argentine National Research Council
- , University of Arizona
- Amanda Wissler, University of California, Berkeley
- Jesse Wolfhagen, Stony Brook University
2012*: $12,000 awarded
- , University of California, Berkeley
- Nadia Ben-Marzouk, University of California, Los Angeles
- , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- , University of California, Berkeley
- , Cornell University
- , University of Puerto Rico
- Nicolas Gauthier, Boston University
- , University of Chicago
- , University of Arkansas
- , University of Leuven
- Carolyn Swan, Brown University
- Jennifer Swerida, Johns Hopkins University
- Clive Vella, Brown University
*Funds distributed to 12 Fellows
2011: $13,000 awarded
- Heidi Dodgen, Jewish Theological Seminary
- , The University of Western Ontario
- , University of Toronto
- Alex Knodell, Brown University
- Lora Korynta
- , Lycoming College
- , The College of William & Mary
- Cherie Lynn Milliron, Southern Adventist University
- , Andrews University
- , Brigham Young University
- , Pennsylvania State University
- , University College London
2010: $9,000 awarded
- Jessa Fowler, Willamette University
- Brittany Jackson
- Jacob Rennaker, Claremont Graduate University
- Gerald Manderscheid
- Ryan Bennett, Missouri State University
- Rachel Bisaro, Boston University
- Michael P. Ellingsen, Trinity International University
- Walter Crist, Arizona State University
- Zachary Devlin, Pennsylvania State University
2009: $6,000 awarded
- Sarah Costello, University of Houston
- Morag M. Kersel, Brown University
- Matthew McRae
- George Pierce, University of California, Los Angeles
- Max Price, University of Chicago
- M. Barbara Reeves, Queen’s University
2008: $13,200 awarded
- Carolyn Nakamura Aldrich, Columbia University
- Ilya Berelov, Arizona State University
- Stephanie Brown, North Carolina State University
- Zuzana Chovanec, University at Albany
- Catherine Foster, University of California, Berkley
- Eric Jensen, University of Arkansas
- Tammi Mills, The University of Lethbridge
- Robert J. Stark, University of Alberta
- Rhian Stotts, Arizona State University
- Tasha Vorderstrasse, Netherlands Institute of the Near East (NINO)
- Chantel White, Boston University
2007: $8,000 awarded
- Kevin Cooney, Boston University
- Robbyn Gordon
- Emily Louise Hammer, Harvard University
- Christopher B. Hays, Emory University
- Melanie Poupart
- Alexandra Ratzlaff, Boston University
- Sherry Robison
- Elizabeth Warkentin