For those of us working in the Middle East, ASOR is the premier professional society with which we associate. The focus of this short piece is the inclusion of women on ASOR’s Board of Trustees. Further reports on these and other projects will be made in the 2014 annual meeting in San Diego, in a workshop entitled Women at Work: Making One’s Way in the Field of Near Eastern Studies. Several members of the Initiative’s Steering Committee, Leann Pace and Jennie Ebeling, are currently engaged in studies of women’s inclusion in two ASOR journals, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research and Near Eastern Archaeology. Several years ago, then-ASOR President Tim Harrison asked me to chair a new Initiative on the Status of Women. I have been working for a number of years on projects, including this one, designed to document women’s participation in ASOR, its CAP (Committee on Archaeological Research and Publication)-affiliated excavations, and more. For archaeologists, three arenas, fieldwork, publication, and participation in professional societies, are all stepping-stones to academic advancement – and of course, promotion in the workplace is linked to success in each of these three arenas. The last several decades have been ones of introspection for professional women, as they look to where they have been in their various vocations – and of activism, as they work to overcome discriminatory practices in the workplace. ASOR-AFFILIATED RESEARCH CENTERS FELLOWSHIPS.MEMBERSHIP & ANNUAL MEETING SCHOLARSHIPS.SCHOLARSHIPS FOR FIELDWORK PARTICIPATION.

2023 Call for Member-Organized Sessions and Workshops.

ASOR-AFFILIATED ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECTS.

Breaking Ground by Getzel M. Cohen