Honorary Fellowships
Eligibility
Postdoctoral researchers, with occasional inclusion of postgraduate researchers, working in the areas of research supported by the CBRL. Researchers of any nationality may apply.
Application: By curriculum vitae, with two letters of recommendation, and at least one project application, completed on the CBRL Project Affiliation form. Postgraduate researchers must have a letter of support from their supervisor.
Purpose: Honorary Fellows are appointed to enhance the academic standing of the CBRL through the conduct and publication of research of high quality within the arts and humanities. In addition, they are expected to play an active role in the life of CBRL's overseas institutes, through participation in the academic life of these establishments.
Benefits
- Fellows will be entitled to make use of the research facilities available at the CBRL Institutes, including the library and (at normal CBRL rates) the telephones, fax machine, computers, and photocopy machine. Fellows are also entitled to hire CBRL equipment and vehicles at CBRL project rates.
- At the discretion of management, for the duration of the fellowship, fellows will also be allocated such workspace as they may require to store the materials related to affiliated projects and to pursue their research.
- If Fellows wish to add further projects to their 'portfolio' of CBRL-affiliated projects, they may do so at any time by submitting full details on the appropriate application form (one for each project).
- The fellowship may be renewed if application is made to the CBRL Administrative Secretary five months before the end of the fellowship. The application should be accompanied by an interim report on the work completed up to that point during the tenure of the existing fellowship.
Other conditions
The fellowship is non-stipendiary and none of the benefits of it may be commuted into a monetary payment.
Fellows are normally expected to give one lecture per year about each of their affiliated projects at their main host institute, or at a CBRL meeting in the UK.
Within one month of the end of the fellowship, fellows must provide the Regional Director with a report on the research conducted and other activities undertaken (e.g. lecturing) during the year of the fellowship. This should include (for inclusion in the CBRL's Annual Report) a list of all publications relevant to the fellowship that appeared or were in press during the period of the fellowship.
In addition, fellows must also submit a research report on each of their CBRL-affiliated projects to either Levant or the CBRL Bulletin as may be appropriate, depending on length and subject. The CBRL's Hon Editors will be happy to advise about details of submission. The editors also reserve the right to refuse publication or to recommend an alternative medium.
All publications (including web-pages) resulting from the work undertaken as a fellow should acknowledge the CBRL and wherever possible a copy should be deposited in the appropriate CBRL library.
Fellows may not engage in, or have an interest in, any business occupation that conflicts with the interests of the CBRL, nor may they use the name or stationery of the CBRL for purposes of self-promotion or self-advancement or to the CBRL's detriment.
Current Honorary Fellows
Denis Genequand
Institut d’Archéologie et Sciences de l’Antiquité, Université de Lausanne and Archéologie Islamique, Université de Paris I
CBRL Honorary Fellow since September 2006
Research: Economic and Environmental Aspects of the so-called Desert Castles of the Ummayad Period in the Bilad esh-Sham
Denis Genequand studied Archaeology and History at the Universities of Lausanne (CH), Neuchâtel (CH) and Paris I (F). He joined CBRL in November 2002 as an Honorary Research Fellow. For over ten years he has participated or conducted excavations and surveys in Switzerland, the Middle East (Jordan, Syria) and Asia (Uzbekistan and Pakistan). His main interests relate to Late Antiquity and Early Islam.
Denis is at present conducting research on the Umayyad settlements in Bilad al-Sham. He is also co-director of the Syrian-Swiss mission investigating Umayyad castles in steppe lands areas and working at Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi. He is currently archaeologist in charge of the Roman period at the Archaeological Office of Geneva.
Research Interests:
- Early Islamic architecture
- Late Antique and early Islamic rural economy
- Umayyad settlement history
- Land use and settlement pattern in semi-arid areas of the Near East
Project:
Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi
Email:
Denis Genequand
Charlotte Whiting
CBRL
CBRL Honorary Fellow since 2003
Research: South Jordan Iron Age II Survey and Excavation Project
Charlotte Whiting received a BA in Archaeology from the University of Durham and an MPhil in Mesopotamian Archaeology from the University of Cambridge. She returned to Durham in 1997 to undertake research for which she was awarded a PhD in 2002. During this time she participated in archaeological projects throughout the Levant, including the excavations at Tell el-Kheleifeh, the Medieval and Ottoman Survey of Palestine, the Dana Archaeological Survey and the Minsahlat and Dana-Faynan-Ghuwayr Surveys. She joined the CBRL in 2003 as an Honorary Research Fellow. In addition to directing the South Jordan Iron Age II Survey and Excavation Project, she runs the Tel Jezreel Post-Excavation and Publication Project.
Research Interests:
- Iron Age Archaeology of the southern Levant, "Edomite" Archaeology
- The History and Politics of Levantine Archaeology
- Theories of Practice and social approaches to Iron Age material culture
- Ceramic Analysis
Projects:
Email:
Charlotte Whiting
Ina Kehrberg
University of Sydney
CBRL Honorary Fellow since 2003
Research: The Publication of the Jerash Hippodrome Excavations 1984-1996
Ina Kehrberg-Ostrasz completed her postgraduate studies in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Sydney. She first came to Jordan as researcher for the University of Sydney excavations at Teleilat Ghassul 1975-1978. In 1982 she returned to Jordan with the Australian Team of the Jerash International Archaeological Project and from 1984-1996 excavated the Jerash Hippodrome with Dr Antoni Ostrasz, followed by the Upper Zeus Temple Project until 2000. She held long and short term fellowships at the DAI in Berlin, IFPO in Amman and the EfA in Athens and was editor at the DAJ for 5 years. She continued working on Jordanian excavations and directed a number of archaeological projects in Jerash until 2003. During this time she created the ‘Jerash Archaeological Studies Centre/JASC’ which has been affiliated to the DAJ, CBRL and IFPO. In 2004 she returned to Sydney where she became Research Associate of the Depts of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Sydney and Macquarie University. She has been awarded the Shelby White-Leon Levy Grant [Harvard] for the publications of the Jerash Hippodrome Excavations 1984-1996.
Research Interests:
- Classical period-sites of the Eastern Mediterranean world, with focus on Jordan and linkage with urban sites of the Late Hellenistic periods as well as the western and eastern Roman provinces
- Critical reviews of standard typologies of artifacts, offering new approaches to examine archaeological data as a cluster within find contexts and a broader historical environment
- Using artefact assemblages and archaeological deposits as intimate tools for multifarious historical inquiries of a given society or community
Projects:
- The Publication of the Jerash Hippodrome Excavations 1984-1996, in two volumes by Antoni A. Ostrasz (1929-1996) and Ina Kehrberg
- Post-Excavation Research : The Jerash City Walls Project 2000-2003
Publications:
BOOK
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The Umayyads. The Rise of Islamic Art.
I. Kehrberg (ed.), author on JARASH and the museum collections of Jordan. ‘Museum With No Frontiers’, Exhibition Handbook of Jordan. (2000, Madrid).
Articles
- Byzantine ceramic productions and organisational aspects of sixth century AD pottery workshops at the Hippodrome of Jarash”. SHAJ/Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan 10 (2009, Amman): pp. 493-512.
- “The complexity of lamps: Archaeological contexts, material assemblages and chronological typologies of ancient lamps.” In J.-F. Salles & D. Frangié (eds), Lampes antiques du Bilad esh-Sham/ Antique lamps in the Bilad ash-Sham, Proceedings of the ILA/IFPO Colloquium 6-13 November 2005, BAH/ Jordan Archaeology, Amman-Beirut: pp1-23 (in the press 2009)
- “Figurative adornment of Roman circuses: virtual presentations of the starting gate herms”. In: E. la Rocca, P. Leon & C.P.Presicce (eds),LE DUE PATRIE ACQUISITE. Studi de archaeologia dedicattia a Walter Trillmich. BCom/Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica di Roma, Sup. 18 (2008): pp. 207-214
- “Gerasa as provider for Roman frontier stations: A view seen from Late Roman potters’ waste at the Hippodrome and the Upper Zeus Temple”. SHAJ/Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan 9 (2007, Amman): pp.31-48.
- “The Gerasa Hippodrome Publication Project.” Bulletin of the Council for British Research in the Levant 1, CBRL 2006: pp.28-30.
- “A Late Hellenistic Link between Jordan and Cyprus: A view from Gerasa.” Mediterranean Archaeology 17, 2004 / 2006. L. Beaumont, C. Barker & E. Bollen (eds), Festschrift in Honour of J. Richard Green: pp.299-306, Pls 37-38.
- “Late Hellenistic and Early Roman Pottery of Gerasa: A commercial enterprise in view of international norms.” SHAJ/Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan 8 (2004, Amman): pp.189-196.
- “The Jerash City Walls Project 2002 – Excavation and Planning Aspects of the Roman Masterplan. A Report.” ADAJ/Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 47, 2003: (with J. Manley): pp.83-86
Alison McQuitty
Alison McQuitty is a free-lance archaeologist/heritage management consultant currently living in the Netherlands. She was Director of BIAAH/CBRL (1989-91 and 1994-1999) and is presently Research Associate at the Centre of Tourism and Culture Change, Sheffield Hallam University. Her research interests are the post-Byzantine rural landscape of Jordan; vernacular architecture; community development within tourism and the role of women archaeologists in developing the discipline. Current projects include the publication of her excavations at Khirbat Faris, Jordan - co-directed with Dr Jeremy Johns; the Salt Museum Renovation Project and the Umm Qays community development and tourism project. She and her husband also run cultural, ornithological and walking tours to the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe.
Email:
Alison McQuitty
Denis Genequand
Charlotte Whiting
Ina Kehrberg
Alison McQuitty
