For descriptions of these projects, please see the Spring 2011 TAARII Newsletter, Issue 6-1.
John Bowlus, History, Georgetown University
“Kirkuk-Ceyhan Oil Pipeline and Oil Transportation in the Middle East, 1957–1977”
Jean Evans, Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College
“The Lives of Sumerian Sculpture”
Carrie Hritz, Archaeology, Penn State University
“Cities in the Marsh: Settlement and Land Use in the Former Marshes of Southern Iraq”
Matt Saba, Art History, University of Chicago
“The Dar al-Khilafa of Samarra: Architecture, Ornament and the Aesthetics of Wonder in Abbasid Iraq”
Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt, History, Stanford University
“The End of the Concessionary Regime: Oil and American Power in Iraq, 1958–1972”