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Helen Dixon

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  • ASOR DEI Committee American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) Committee for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. 2024
  • Manuscript Review Manuscript review (blind peer review) for Cambridge Archaeological Journal 2024
  • Co-organized and recruited for a new Member-Organized Conference Session: "History and Archaeology of the Phoenician World" at the ASOR Annual Meeting With Jessica Nitschke (Stellenbosch University), I proposed a new session which was accepted for recruitment at the 2024 ASOR Annual Meeting in Boston (November 2024).
    Our session abstract: "The past two decades have been a boon time for Phoenician studies, with numerous monographs, articles, and colloquia shining a light on the central role Phoenicians played in ancient Mediterranean culture, economy, and politics. This session serves as a space to present research on any aspect of the history and culture of the Phoenician/Punic world, broadly conceived: from the Levant to the Atlantic, from the Bronze Age through the Roman Empire and beyond (including the reception of Phoenicians in modern times). Papers that deal with religious, economic, and political interactions are particularly welcome." 2023 - 2024
  • Reviewer for the ASOR Collections Fellowship Reviewed 14 proposals for the American Society for Overseas Research (ASOR) Study of Collections Fellowship:https://www.asor.org/fellowships/study-of-collections-fellowships/ 2023
  • Online lecture series on "Levantine Phoenician Women" Along with Dr. Aaron Brody, I co-organized an online lecture series with monthly speakers on the topic of "Levantine Phoenician Women." This involves planning, recruitment, organization, communication with speakers, and eventual planning of an edited volume on the topic. 2022 - 2023
  • Book proposal review for the Cambridge University Press "Elements in the Ancient Near Eastern World and the Bible" Series I reviewed a book proposal for the CUP series "Elements in the Ancient Near Eastern World and the Bible" (ed. Aaron Burke). 2023
  • 2023 ASOR Annual Meeting Proposed and recruited support for a new Member-Organized workshop on "The Persians, the Phoenicians, and Near Eastern Mediterranean Markets" to be held at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Overseas Research (ASOR) in Chicago, November 2023. 2022 - 2023
  • Metatron journal - general editor I serve as one of four general editors (members of the editorial board) for the new open-access peer-reviewed journal Metatron (https://metatron.scholasticahq.com/):"A journal of modern philology and the ancient imagination offering new vistas on the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Named after the mediating angel of Jewish mysticism, it is designed to open cutting-edge research to a broad intellectual community." 2020 - 2022
  • Advisory Board Member for the Cambridge University Press series "Elements in the Ancient Near Eastern World and the Bible" Advisory Board member, Elements in the Ancient Near Eastern World and the Bible, ed. Christopher Hays, Brent Strawn, and Mahri Leonard-Fleckman, Cambridge University Press (https://www.cambridge.org/core/publications/elements). 2022
  • ASOR Coordinating Chairs Council As part of my service as co-chair to the Program Committee of the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR), I am also appointed to the Coordinating Chairs Council, which meets monthly during the academic year. I will hold this appointment through December 2022. 2016 - 2022
  • ASOR Finance Committee As part of my service as co-chair to the Program Committee of the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR), I am also appointed to the Finance Committee, which meets twice during the academic year. I will hold this appointment through December 2022. 2016 - 2022
  • American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)'s Annual Meeting I co-chair the Program Committee at ASOR, an international professional organization for archaeologists, art historians, and other scholars of the ancient Near East, which organizes the academic program for our Annual Meeting (featuring ca. 1000 participants, and 500-800 academic papers). I have accepted this appointment through December 31, 2022. 2016 - 2022
  • Editorial Board member, "Worlds of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean" series Editorial Board member, Worlds of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean series. D. Edelman, editor; Equinox Press (https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/the-world-of-the-ancient-near-east-and-ancient-mediterranean/) 2021
  • "Ritual of Living" panel, University of Chicago Served as faculty panelist for a virtual panel organized by the University of Chicago's Office of Spiritual Life: "to discuss meaning-making and mindfulness practices for students juggling full schedules and impending deadlines. " 2020
  • Letter for tenure dossier I was invited to write an anoymous letter of tenure support for a colleague in my field in March 2020. I was contacted in April to say the candidate had delayed her tenure review to the 2020-2021 academic year because of the COVID19 pandemic. An updated letter was solicited anew in March 2021. 2020
  • DHC-NC 2020 Fall Digital Humanities Institute Served as a session chair for a session at the Digital Humanities Collaborative of North Carolina (DHC-NC) Digital Humanities Institute Program, December 10-11. The session included two presentations: "Reframing the Remains: An Infrastructural Remediation of North Carolina Plantations" byMargaret Baker, NCSU and"Franklin Memories: Finding Solace in What They Left Us" byOlivia Dorsey Peacock, Independent Scholar. 2020
  • Bible and Religions of the Ancient Near East (BRANE) Collective member I am a member of the Bible and Religions of the Ancient Near East (BRANE) Collective: "an inclusive, open-access research group for the study of biblical and ancient Near Eastern literatures and their cultural worlds in the 21st century." (https://branecollective.org/) 2019
  • ASOR Program Committee planning retreat Co-chairs of the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) Program Committee met with the ASOR Executive Director and Meetings Manager at the new ASOR headquarters January 31 - February 2, 2020 to rethink the Annual Meeting planning schedule. 2019
  • Advances in Ancient Biblical and Near Eastern Research (AABNER) Journal I serve as a field editor for the new open-access and forum-peer-reviewed journal AABNER (Advances in Ancient Biblical and Near Eastern Research):https://bildungsforschung.org/ojs/index.php/beabs/index. 2019
  • Renewed Philology working group I serve as one of the members of the advisory board of the Yale University working group "Renewed Philology" (https://renewedphilology.yale.edu/about): "an international working group of scholars in biblical studies whose work reflects critically on the intellectual frameworks brought to bear in philological practice. The work of this group is diverse in its interests, interdisciplinary in its readings of ancient texts and the recovery of ancient world-views, and meta-critical in its practices." 2019
  • Symposium to develop a Kress grant to pilot funneling private antiquities collections into university museums Invited participants met at Princeton University Sept. 13-15, 2019 to discuss the Kress-seeded grant proposal "Private Antiquities Collections to University Museums: A Proposal" authored by Elizabeth Marlowe (Associate Professor of Art & Art History, Colgate University) and ;Leila Amineddoleh (Founder and Managing Partner of Amineddoleh & Associates, LLP, specializing in art, cultural heritage, and intellectual property law). Participants came from universities and museums, along with representatives of the AIA and ASOR archaeology professional organizations. 2019
  • Wiki, Women, and Bible Workshop and Happy Hour, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting Wikipedia edit-a-thon co-organizer (with Hanna Tervanotko, Nyasha Junior, Janet Spittler, and Sarah Shectman) and trainer. ; 2019
  • ASOR Ad Hoc Committee: Annual Meeting Code of Conduct Member of an ad hoc committee to write and implement a Code of Conduct for the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)'s Annual Meetings. 2018 - 2019
  • Grant proposal review for the Israel Science Foundation Grant proposal review, Social Sciences & Humanities division, Israel Science Foundation. 2018

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