Unsilencing the Archives: The Labourers of the Tell en-Nasbeh Excavations
“Unsilencing the Archives: The Laborers of the Tell en-Nasbeh Excavations (1926-1935)” is a new web exhibit from the Badè Museum at Pacific School of Religion, funded with a research grant from the PEF. The exhibit showcases unpublished archival documents, photographs, and film that illustrate the untold stories of local laborers, landowners, and Egyptian foremen who contributed to the excavations at Nasbeh in British Mandate Palestine. There are a series of lectures planned throughout the academic year, and these may also be made available to us as recorded lectures. To find out more please click here. Please also click here to view and download details of the lectures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuxVySUq360
The Routledge Philip R. Davies Early Career Publication Award 2022
We are pleased to announce applications are open for the annual Routledge Philip R. Davies Career Publication Award 2022 which honours the memory of Professor Philip R. Davies, prior Chair of the Fund, who died suddenly and before his time in May 2018. The Award recognises his unique contribution to scholarship, his enthusiasm for academic publishing, and his desire to develop younger scholars. The award encourages early career scholars in producing original, high quality research articles. To this end, rather than a single prize, the Fund offers prizes to the winner and up to two runners up, as well as the chance to publish their articles in the PEF’s own peer-reviewed journal, the Palestine Exploration Quarterly (PEQ). The PEQ focuses on…
The Palestine Exploration Fund/Albright Institute Fellowship 2022-23
We are pleased to announce applications are open for the Palestine Exploration Fund/Albright Institute Fellowship 2022-23 annual award of £3,000 to support research that requires access to the PEF archives and collection and also time spent in residence at the Albright Institute in Jerusalem. The Fellowship requires a minimum of 10 working days at the PEF in Greenwich, London, and a 1 month minimum stay at AIAR in Jerusalem. Click here to find out more.
The Palestine Exploration Fund/Albright Institute Fellowship
We are pleased to announce that the PEF-AIAR Fellow for 2021 is Dr. Morag Kersel (DePaul University) for her research project “Hidden Histories – the private lives of Levantine Neolithic masks” London and Jerusalem. An annual award of £3,000 to support research that requires access to the PEF archives and collection and also time spent in residence at the Albright Institute in Jerusalem. The Fellowship requires a minimum of 10 working days at the PEF in Greenwich, London, and a 1 month minimum stay at AIAR in Jerusalem. The room and half-board at the Institute ($1,200 per month) will come from the award, with the rest a flexible stipend for the other activities. This Fellowship is open to doctoral and post-doctoral researchers of all…
The Routledge Philip R. Davies Early Career Publication Award
We are pleased to announce the winners of the Routledge Philip R. Davies Early Career Publication Award for 2021. Details of the winners and their exceptional research papers are below: Winner: Mr Joseph Scales (University of Birmingham) ‘Bathing Jewish, Bathing Greek: Developing an Approach to De-Categorising Hellenism and Judaism’ Runner-up: Dr. Assaf Kleiman (Leipzig University) ‘The Cultural Biography of Two Volute Capitals in Iron Age Hazor’ 2nd Runner-up: Dr Marieke Dhont (University of Cambridge/Harvard University) ‘The Use of Greek in Palestine: Eupolemus as a Case Study’
The Palestine Exploration Fund / Albright Institute Fellowship
London and Jerusalem. An award of £3,000 to support research that requires access to the PEF archives and collection and also time spent in residence at the Albright Institute in Jerusalem. The Fellowship requires a minimum of 10 working days at the PEF in Greenwich, London, and a 1 month minimum stay at AIAR in Jerusalem. The room and half-board at the Institute ($1,200 per month) will come from the award, with the rest a flexible stipend for the other activities. This Fellowship is open to doctoral and post-doctoral researchers of all nationalities. This Fellowship is for a residential period between 1 September 2021 and 31 May 2022. The working days at the PEF may be completed anytime from the granting of the award until 31 May…
2020 Routledge Philip R. Davies Early Career Researcher Publication Award
The Palestine Exploration Fund, in conjunction with Routledge/Taylor & Francis, is pleased to open the call for entries for the 2020 Davies Early Career Researcher Award. This award honours the memory of Professor Philip R. Davies, prior Chair of the Fund, who died suddenly and before his time in May 2018. The Award recognises his unique contribution to scholarship, his enthusiasm for academic publishing, and his desire to develop younger scholars. The award encourages early career scholars in producing original, high quality research articles. To this end, rather than a single prize, the Fund offers prizes to the winner and up to two runners up, as well as the chance to publish their articles in the PEF’s own peer-reviewed journal,…
Announcement of Winners: 2019 Routledge Philip R. Davies Early Career Researcher Publication Award
This award recognises excellent research and writing by early career scholars in the areas covered by the Palestine Exploration Quarterly. Since Prof. Philip Davies was strongly committed to mentoring early career scholars and to innovation in publishing, this award appropriately reflects two of his greatest contributions to the field. The award is funded through the generosity of Routledge/Taylor & Francis in memory of Davies and in recognition of his contribution to scholarship and to publishing during his lifetime. 2019 Winner: Dr Matthew Susnow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Palestine Exploration Fund is pleased to announce that Dr Matthew Susnow’s entry—‘Liminality and Canaanite Cultic Spaces: Temple Entrances, Status Transformations and Ritual in Threshold Contexts’—has been selected for the 2019 Davies Award.…
