According to a recent announcement by the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR), four JHU NES affiliates were listed among the recipients of 2025 project grants and research fellowship awards:

Jacob Lauinger, Professor of Assyriology, and Zeynep Türker, PhD student in Assyriology, received a Charles Harris Project Grant for their work at the Tell Atchana/Alalakh Excavations.

Tiffany Earley-Spadoni (University of Central Florida), an alumna of the department (PhD, 2015), received a Shepard Urgent Action Grant for her project, “Emergency Conservation of Unfired Cuneiform Tablets from Kurd Qaburstan.”

Nicholas Gill (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia), a recent alumnus (PhD, 2024), received a Herbert Warren Mason Fellowship for his project, “The Celestial Scorpion: A Renegade Constellation in Early Mesopotamia.”

For the full list of awardees, see here: ASOR Awards Announcement

Congratulations!