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AIA Site Preservation Grant to Support Project at Deir el-Ballas, Egypt

The AIA’s 2019 Site Preservation Grant will fund preservation work taking place at Deir el-Ballas in Egypt.

AIA Announces 2021 Gold Medal Award Winner

The AIA has selected Dr. Katherine M.D. Dunbabin as the 2021 recipient of the AIA’s Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement.

Grant and Award Deadline Extensions

The AIA offers a variety of scholarships, fellowships, and grants for excavation, research, publication, and site preservation. The Institute also presents a number of awards to archaeologists, educators, authors, and others whose work has had a positive impact on the field of archaeology. In light of the many changes and disruptions resulting from the COVID-19 […]

AIA Tours: Response to COVID-19

Dear AIA travelers, We enjoy reaching out to you each month with exciting news about new AIA land tours and small-ship cruises, but this month the topic looming large, over and above everything else is, of course, COVID-19. As a result, we wanted to take this opportunity to tell you a little bit about what […]

AIA Boston Office Temporarily Closed

Effective 5:00 PM, Friday, March 13, 2020, (EDT), the AIA temporarily closed its Boston office located at 44 Beacon Street, in response to the coronavirus. The office will remain cosed in accordance with official advisories. We will continue to provide updates on this information on the AIA’s website, Facebook, and Twitter. The Institute’s staff will […]

Spring 2020 Lectures Canceled

The AIA’s 124th Lecture Program began in September 2019 and was scheduled to run through April 2020. Please note that all of our remaining spring 2020 lectures have been canceled due to concerns over the coronavirus. When possible, we will be rescheduling these lectures for next season. We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your patience […]

2020 AIA Photo Contest

The 2020 AIA Photo Contest has begun! Now through Sunday, March 29, 2020, we encourage you to submit your best archaeology-themed photos in one of the following categories: Archaeological Landscapes, Excavation, Field Life, Fun Finds, and Monuments. Voting will take place from March 31 to April 6, 2020. Winners in each category will receive a a one-year […]

Graduate Student Paper Award Winner Announced

The Archaeological Institute of America is pleased to bestow First Prize for the Graduate Student Paper Award to Drew Davis, a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto. His paper, “Municipal Public Spending and Italian Urbanization in the Late Republic,” drew on epigraphic evidence from the last two centuries of the Republic to challenge the […]

Nominations to the AIA Governing Board

Dear AIA Members: My name is Derek Counts and I am writing to you as the newly elected Chair of the Nominating Committee to invite your help in identifying potential candidates for open positions on the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) Governing Board. Other members of the AIA Nominating Committee are David Adam, Elizabeth Greene, […]

AIA Welcomes New Executive Director

The Archaeological Institute of America is delighted to announce the selection of Rebecca W. King as its new Executive Director.

Missouri Egyptolgists and Local Teachers Meet to “Unwrap Ancient Egypt”

In 2019 the AIA-Central Missouri Society received an AIA Society Outreach Grant to support an October 2019 conference in Springfield, Missouri: Unwrapping Ancient Egypt. Beyond being an academic gathering, the conference aimed to build bridges between academic Egyptologists in Missouri and local middle and high school teachers. The conference had three parts: a symposium of […]

Archaeological Institute of America Weighs in About Ancient Architecture as a Responsive Tradition

In recent days, public questions have arisen about the Neoclassical style of architecture. The Neoclassical style reflects a particular tradition, in which 18th and 19th century architects, principally in Europe and the United States, celebrated the influence of the Classical Mediterranean tradition. In antiquity, however, Greco-Roman architecture was not a singular or static canon, but […]

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