Scholarships Send Diggers Abroad
This summer the trenches were once again filled with volunteers who traveled to the Middle East and Europe to participate in archaeological excavations. BAR offered scholarships of $1,000 each to 23 qualified volunteers who would not otherwise have been able to participate.
This year’s dig scholarship winners were chosen from a pool of nearly 60 applicants. This diverse group includes, among others, undergraduate students and Ph.D. candidates, a pastor and a social studies teacher, a Vietnam veteran and a man who returned to dig at Hazor after a 50-year absence. They were accepted to work at sites throughout Israel and Jordan, as well as Bulgaria.
To learn more about current excavations, scholarship opportunities and to download a free e-book about life on a dig, visit our digs Web site, www.findadig.com.
| NAME | SCHOOL | DIG SITE | DIRECTOR(S) |
| Leslie Aylesworth | Trinity Evangelical Seminary | Tell es-Safi/Gath | Aren Maeir |
| Jenna Belobersycky | Bar-Ilan University | Beth Shemesh | Shlomo Bunimovitz, Zvi Lederman |
| Jennifer Berge | Concordia University | Tell es-Safi/Gath | Aren Maeir |
| Megan Bettilyon | University of California, San Diego | Khirbat al-Mudayna (?Jordan) | P.M. Michèle Daviau |
| Leah Brown | Appalachian State University | Hippos-Sussita | Arthur Segal |
| Debra Cenko | First Presbyterian Church, Wharton, Texas | Ramat Rah.el | Oded Lipschits, Manfred Oeming |
| Christopher Clark | Claremont Graduate University | Bethsaida | Rami Arav, Richard Freund |
| Helen Connolly | University of Lethbridge | Yavneh Yam | Moshe Fischer |
| Andrea Creel | University of California, Berkeley | Ashkelon | Lawrence Stager, Daniel Master |
| Brian DiPalma | Princeton Theological Seminary | Hazor | Amnon Ben-Tor |
| Daniella Garran | teacher; Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School | Cambustica Field School (Bulgaria) | Nartsis Torbov |
| Andrew Glicksman | The Catholic University of America | Khirbat al-Mudayna (?Jordan) | P.M. Michèle Daviau |
| Kristina Glicksman | Exeter College, University of Oxford | Khirbat al-Mudayna (?Jordan) | P.M. Michèle Daviau |
| Christopher Hays | Emory University | Tell Halif | Oded Borowski, James Hardin |
| Amy Justice | Texas Christian University | Tel Dor | Ilan Sharon, Ayelet Gilboa |
| Sara Genessa Levavi | The George Washington University | Tell es-Safi/Gath | Aren Maeir |
| Kenneth Miller | University of Arizona | Gezer | Steven Ortiz, Sam Wolff |
| Erin Pruckno | Skidmore College | Tell Halif | Oded Borowski, James Hardin |
| Michael Resig | Wheaton College | Ashkelon | Lawrence Stager, Daniel Master |
| Sherry Robinson | North Carolina State University | Khirbat al-Mudayna (?Jordan) | P.M. Michèle Daviau |
| Rebecca Siddle | Pittsburgh Theological Seminary | Tel Zayit | Ron Tappy |
| H. Aytan Stromberg | Retired | Hazor | Amnon Ben-Tor |
| Terra Winston | McCormick Theological Seminary | Tel Dor | Ilan Sharon, Ayelet Gilboa |