We have our winners!

Thank you to everyone who voted for this year’s H.A.P.S. summer grant recipients. I’m pleased to announce our four winners!

Naghmeh Mahzounzadeh

Naghmeh is a 1st year archaeology student at Ca Foscari University of Venice. She is studying metal arrowheads found on the Iranian plateau, dating from the 6th c. B.C.E. to the 7th c. C.E. She will spend the summer traveling to various museums to start the data collection process.

Ransom Portis

Ransom is a 6th year Hebrew Bible student from Princeton Theological Seminary. He investigates the divine council in Israelite religion, using a comparative approach to include evidence from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Ugarit, and Aegean. His summer will be spent writing his dissertation.

Virginia Cara Girardi

Virginia is a 2nd year student of Assyriology at Wolfson College, the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the importance of boat transportation for the economy of the Ur III period, and she will spend her summer traveling to Iraq to gather information about boat building techniques.

Trey Nation

Trey is a 6th year Assyriology student from Harvard University. He is studying the lived religion of the Assyrian merchants from the Anatolian city of Kanesh during the 2nd millennium B.C.E. This summer he will travel to ancient Kanesh (modern Kültepe in Turkey) to attend the biannual Kültepe International Meeting and present his research.

Stay tuned for our summer review interviews later 2022!