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THIRTEENTH ANNUAL SEAN W. DEVER MEMORIAL PRIZE - 2014
The William F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in
Jerusalem announces the 2014 Sean W. Dever Memorial Prize call for
papers. This prize provides $650 for the best published article or
paper presented at a conference by a Ph.D. candidate in
Syro-Palestinian or biblical archaeology. Authors may be of any
nationality but the article or paper must be in English. Co-written
or co-presented pieces may be submitted if all the authors or
presenters are doctoral candidates; the prize, if awarded, will be
divided equally among authors/presenters.
All submissions (in PDF format only) must include the author's
academic affiliation, mailing address, email address, and phone
number. Please indicate the department in which the author is
enrolled and the expected date of graduation. Submission of
conference papers must include the name and location of the conference
and the date on which the paper was presented. Submission of
published papers must include the full bibliographic citation. All
submissions must be received no later than December 31, 2013. The
prize will be announced on Sean's birthday, March 9, 2014.
Send PDF of paper to:
Mr. Sam Cardillo, W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research
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Sean W. Dever Memorial Prize Committee: Carol Meyers and Beth Alpert
Nakhai, co-chairs; Edward Greenstein and Peter Machinist, members;
Sharon Herbert and Seymour Gitin, ex-officio; Norma Dever, honorary
member.
2013 Prize Recipients: Heather Dana Davis Parker (Department of Near
Eastern Studies at The Johns Hopkins University) and Ashley Fiutko
Arico (Department of Near Eastern Studies at The Johns Hopkins
University). Their paper, "A Moabite-Inscribed Statue Fragment from
Kerak: Possible Egyptian Parallels," was presented at the 2011 Annual
Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research and at the 2011
Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, both in San
Francisco.
THE SEAN W. DEVER MEMORIAL PRIZE WAS ESTABLISHED IN 2001 BY PROFESSOR
WILLIAM G. DEVER AND MRS. NORMA DEVER, IN MEMORY OF THEIR SON SEAN.
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