Recent News and Announcements
October 2009
Rhode Island Hall Rededicated
On October 16th, the Corporation of Brown University rededicated Rhode Island Hall and honored the donors of the Institute, Artemis and Martha Joukowsky.
September 2009
We've Moved!
The Joukowsky Institute is now in our new home in Rhode Island Hall, on Brown's Main Green.
August 2009
Harmansah's "Stones of Ayanis" Published
Assistant Professor Omur Harmansah has contributed an article to the new text, Byzas 9, edited by Martin Bachmann and now available through www.zerobooksonline.com.
August 2009
Great Temple Excavation Featured on PBS
This Is America with Dennis Wholey recently visited Petra, Jordan, led by recent Brown Ph.D. grad, Christopher Tuttle. For more on Brown's work at Petra, visit the project's website.
July 2009
Two New Postdoctoral Fellows Come to JIAAW
Morag Kersel and Karen Holmberg have joined the Institute's faculty for this fall. Welcome to both!
July 2009
Anderson Joins Clark University Faculty
Lisa Anderson, who was awarded her Ph.D. in Archaeology and the Ancient World this May, will be a part time lecturer at Clark University in the Visual & Performing Arts Department for the coming academic year.
June 2009
Weiss Selected for 2009-2010 Mellon Graduate Workshop
Doctoral candidate Keffie Feldman Weiss was awarded funding for her workshop proposal, “Fluid Thinking: Explorations of Water and Society.”
May 2009
Spring Issue of "Inventory"
The latest issue of "Inventory", the newsletter of the Joukowsky Institute, is now available online. To receive the next issue by mail or email, please join our mailing list.
May 2009
"Marking Time"
The renovation of Rhode Island Hall is featured on the back page of the May/June issue of Brown Alumni Magazine.
May 2009
Congratulations to the Grads! 
The JIAAW conferred nine undergraduate degrees and two doctorates in Archaeology and the Ancient World in a ceremony on Sunday, May 24th, 2009.
May 2009
Petra: Seeing the Big Picture
Ian Straughn, postdoctoral fellow at JIAAW, was interviewed by National Geographic about using a GigaPan to photograph Brown's Great Temple Excavation at Petra, Jordan.
May 2009
Monteiro Awarded Fellowship
Lyra Monteiro, a doctoral candidate at JIAAW, was awarded the Stuart Fellowship by the John Carter Brown Library.
May 2009
Congratulations to Maia Peck!
Maia, a concentrator in Archaeology and the Ancient World, was elected to membership in the Rhode Island Alpha of Phi Beta Kappa.
May 2009
Mining the Maya Past
Professor Stephen Houston was featured in Today at Brown in an article and film that highlight his research, teaching, and recent MacArthur grant.
April 2009
Two "Teaching with Technology" Winners!
Omur Harmansah has been awarded the Online Course Design Award for ARCH0250 and Stephen Houston has been given the Use of Multimedia Award for ANTH1650.
April 2009
The Power of Petra
The Wall Street Journal featured a story by Jamie James on the beauty of Petra, citing Brown's work at the Great Temple: "Since 1993 a team from Brown University, led by Martha Sharp Joukowsky, has carried out a dig at Petra's Great Temple, and it has found some rare and beautiful specimens of Nabataean architecture...such as an elephant-headed capital and a tiny theater set in the midst of the temple."
March 2009
Congratulations to Dr. Lisa Anderson!
Lisa successfully defended her dissertation, "The Roman Military Community as Expressed in Its Burial Customs During the First-Third Centuries CE," on March 16th.
December 2008
Four UTRA Winners Announced
Megan Boomer, Moira Kyweluk, Jonathan Migliori, and Harrison Stark have been awarded UTRA's for spring semester projects with Institute faculty members. Read more about their projects.
November 2008
Congratulations to Dr. Christopher Tuttle!
Chris successfully defended his dissertation, "The Nabataean Coroplastic Arts: A Synthetic Approach for Studying Terracotta Figurines, Plaques, Vessels, and Other Clay Objects," on November 25th.
October 2008
Inaugural Issue of "Inventory"
The Fall issue of "Inventory", the newsletter of the Joukowsky Institute, is now available online. To receive the next issue by mail or email, please join our mailing list.
September 2008
Steve Houston Given "Genius" Award
Professor Stephen Houston is among the 25 recipients of this year's fellowship given by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
September 2008
Discovery at John Brown House
Students in the Archaeology of College Hill course uncovered what appears to be a tiled floor during their first day of digging. Images of their progress can be seen on the College Hill website.
September 2008
Susan Harvey Awarded Named Chair
JIAAW Executive Committe member Susan Ashbrook Harvey has been named the Willard Prescott and Annie McClelland Smith Professor of Religious Studies.
September 2008
New Faculty Welcomed to Brown
Read an interview with Laurel Bestock, Assistant Professor of Egyptology and Archaeology, and profiles of affiliated faculty members John Steele, Rebecca Molholt, Shadi Bartsch, and Nancy Khalek. Learn about all the Institute's new faculty members by visiting our People page.
September 2008
Material Worlds Receives Renewal Grant
The Material Worlds Working Group was awarded a second Humanities Research Group Grant by the Cogut Humanities Center, in order to continue interdisciplinary discussions of material culture and to host public talks throughout the coming academic year.
August 2008
JIAAW and GigaPan
The Institute is part of a project to pilot a robotic camera mount, that makes it possible to take large panoramic photos while simultaneously capturing precise details. Read more about this experiment and view the first results here.
August 2008
Petra Great Temple, Volume II
Martha Sharp Joukowsky has completed the second volume in a series of texts on Brown's excavations at the Great Temple, in Petra, Jordan. For more information, email joukowsky_institute@brown.edu.
May 2008
Student Paper Prize Winnners Announced
Whit Schroder, Megan Boomer, and Vincent Pham are the winners of 2008's Archaeology Paper Prize competition. Read the prize-winning papers here.
May 2008
John Cherry Named Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology
Brown's Corporation approved the establishment of the Joukowsky Family Professorship in Archaeology at its meeting this May, and approved Cherry's appointment to this new position.
March 2007
In Memory of Kaelyn McGregor
To honor Kaelyn and her many contributions to Brown and to archaeology, the Kaelyn McGregor Numismatic Research Fund has been established. More information is available here.
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