The 2020 TARII Fellowship Awards

We are pleased to announce the 2020 TARII Fellows!

Due to limitations in our 2020 programming as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, TARII has shifted funds in order to provide for more research fellowships this year. TARII, with the feedback and support of a scholarly review committee, has selected 12 these fellows:

  • Jordan Brown, University of California, Berkeley

Historical Socioecology of the Erbil Plain: Geoarchaeology and Remote Sensing

  • Camille Cole, PhD, University of Cambridge

    The Ottoman Gilded Age: Land, Law, and Capital in Basra, 1884-1914

  • Avary Taylor, Johns Hopkins University

    The "Thing" About the Palace: A Posthumanist Biography of the Northwest Palace

  • Gabriel Young, New York University

    Basra, State Formation, and Transnational Urbanization in Iraq and the Gulf, 1920s-1960s

  • Aqeel Almansrawe, State Board of Antiquities and Heritage

    Documentation of Endangered Archaeological Sites in the Marsh Region of Maysan Province, Iraq

  • Muntadher Aloda, State Board of Antiquities and Heritage

    Al-Shanashil Heritage Buildings in Basra: Documenting the Deterioration and Threats

  • Karwan Amin, PhD, Hawler Medical University

    Exploring people’s perceived risk and protective behavioural change towards COVID-19 in Iraqi Kurdistan Region

  • Etlal Hanna, PhD, University of Al-Hamdaniyah

    Tourist Development of the Religious Heritage Sites in the Nineveh Plain

  • DLshad Aziz Marf, PhD, and Ziyad Ahmad Mohammed, PhD, University of Sulaimani

    The Jewish Knešta (synagogue) in Ancient Arbela: Archaeological and Historical field survey

  • Nassier Al-Zubaidi, PhD, University of Baghdad

    Iraqi Complimenting Behaviour in Facebook and Instagram Platforms: A Cyber-Pragmatics Perspective