Excavation Fellowships
ASOR provided record support for excavations during the excavation season of 2008. We awarded 39 total scholarships for Harris, Platt, and Heritage Fellowships for a total amount awarded of just under $50,000. These fellowships were made possible by generous endowments given by the late Rev. Charles Harris (Harris grants) and the late Mrs. Katherine Barton Platt (Platt Fellowships). In addition, 15 Heritage donors made directed gifts to ASOR to support ASOR-affiliated excavations. This fall 2008 issue of the ASOR Newsletter contains reports from the Platt and Heritage recipients. ASOR had 85 qualified applications this year that we would have like to have funded, but we were only about to fund a little less that half. ASOR, with the help of the Heritage donors, hopes to increase the number of awards and total amount awarded for the 2009 excavation season.