Funder: American Society of Overseas Research
Due Dates (Anticipated): January 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Fellowship support for research on Mesopotamia and surrounding regions
Summary: Supports research into Mesopotamian archaeology, history, and cultures through material, textual, and landscape evidence.
Description
The Mesopotamian Fellowship, funded by the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR), supports research on the archaeology, history, and cultures of Mesopotamia and surrounding regions. Funded projects investigate ancient societies, economies, settlement systems, and relationships between communities and their landscapes. The fellowship’s record encompasses archaeological surveys, artifact analysis, ancient written records, and cultural heritage research.
Past work has examined early urbanism, pottery production and consumption, domestic architecture, burial practices, seal impressions, and economic exchange. Supported projects also include documentation of threatened heritage in Iraqi Kurdistan and community perspectives on cultural heritage in post-ISIS Iraq. Recent research extends to Paleolithic archaeology and Pleistocene landscapes in the Iraqi Western Desert.
