Deadline: November 1, annually; announced February 1

Amount: $5,000 (paid in two yearly installments)

Purpose: to assist scholars in preparing, completing, and publishing results of their research. This grant supports the scholarly publication of already excavated archaeological material in a peer-reviewed outlet. It is intended to assist in the final analysis, writing, and preparation for publication of the results of research so that, by the end of the second year under the grant, a completed manuscript (article or monograph) will be submitted for publication. Proposals must include a time-table for completion of the manuscript and specific plans for publication (including intended publisher). Applicants may request funds to work on archaeological material of any period from anywhere in the world. Material may already reside in international or North American museums or institutions, or still remain in storerooms on site.

Requirements: Application is open to graduate students and post-doctoral professionals. To be eligible, applicants must be members of the AIA at the time of application and until the end of the grant term. Recipients are required to submit a report to the AIA Fellowships Committee after the first year of funding (before the second half of the award is released) and are also encouraged to submit an abstract to the AIA's Annual Meeting during the second. At the conclusion of the fellowship tenure, the recipient must submit two copies of the following items for the AIA Fellowships Committee and the President of the AIA: a budgetary report on the use of the stipend, a summary of the research, the completed manuscript, and evidence that the manuscript has been submitted to an appropriate venue for publication.

Current Recipient

Maria Papaioannou, Associate Professor with the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of New Brunswick, and President of the New Brunswick AIA Society, is the 2010 recipient of the Publication Preparation Grant. Her project, “A Roman peristyle house at Abdera”, will become part of two future publications, a book on Housing and Households of Roman Greece, and a monograph on The Domestic Architectural Remains of Roman Abdera. Excavated over 50 years ago by the late Demetrios Lazarides of Greece, the architectural remains and small finds of the peristyle house in question have long been overlooked, and publication of this material will add to our understanding of housing and town planning of Roman Abdera and Roman Greece in general. Professor Papaioannou will use the $5,000 grant award to examine field notes and film archives of the 1960-1961 excavations at various libraries and the Kavala Museum in Greece, travel to Abdera to correct plans, and communicate with local and foreign archaeologists regarding chronology and identification of objects. A final manuscript is expected by the beginning of 2012.

2008 Recipient

Recipient of the Publication Preparation Grant for 2008 is Rana Özbal, of the Boğaziçi University in Istanbul and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Dr. Özbal’s publication will be The Sixth Millennium (Amuq C) Levels from Tell Kurdu: A Final Report on the 1998-2001 Seasons, with particular work on the final analysis, illustration, and write-up of the research. The sixth millennium levels of Tell Kurdu, located in the Amuq Valley of present day Turkey, uniquely combine Mediterranean, Levantine, Anatolian, and Mesopotamian cultural, architectural, and artifactual styles. Dr. Özbal is Co-Director of the Tell Kurdu Project, and with the assistance of the Publication Preparation Grant anticipates publication in 2009.

2007 Recipient

Jere Wickens, Lawrence University
Survey of Ancient Sites and Land Routes in Southeastern Karystia, Euboia, Greece
Jere Wickens was awarded the Publication Preparation Grant in order to complete the manuscript for the publication of an archaeological survey of sites and southeastern Karystia, Euboia, an under-studied area of Greece. He tested a new systematic method of conducting extensive reconnaissance surveys using early modern land routes as survey transects. He has identified more than 100 findspots, mainly Classical and Roman. By combining the environmental and archaeological data, a picture of the changing settlement, land-use patterns, and communication networks of this rural region can be constructed. Wickens� publication will expound these new procedures and methods of studying ancient routes and roads themselves through the identification of early modern land routes.

For more information, please contact the Fellowship Coordinator.

For information about supporting the AIA Publication Preparation Grant, please contact Teresa Keller, Executive Director.