Please observe the following rules and regulations:
Conditions
- The IAA Fund for Recent PhDs for RAI Attendance is meant for advanced students and scholars who completed their PhD within the past eight years and do not receive funding for taking part in the Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (RAI), the annual Assyriological congress.
- The application process consists of the application form and a succinct description of the proposed paper (PDF).
- The fund will provide € 400 per person (€ 800 for persons traveling from the Middle East) to cover costs related to registration and travel to the RAI in order to present their work. One award per year will be offered to a scholar from the Middle East.
- Five awards will be made each year.
Committee
- The committee, which will be selected by the IAA Board, shall consist of four IAA members, one of whom is a member of the IAA Board and one of whom is a representative of the current RAI organizing committee.
- The RAI representative will change every year. The other committee members will serve for three years, after which new members will be chosen.
- The IAA board representative will be serving as the chair of the committee.
Time table
- Applications should be sent to the IAA Office in Leiden no later than April 30. The office shall then forward them to the committee members before May10.
- The four members of the committee will evaluate the applications and make a preliminary ranking.
- The committee will submit its selection report to the IAA Board no later than May 25.
- The Board will review the committee’s report and announce the winners no later than June 1. During the General Meeting the committee’s chair will congratulate the winners.
Please send your application to the following email address: office@iaassyriology.com
Previous winners
2024
Aviya Fraenkel
Nicholas Gill
Raleigh Heth
Jaafar Jotheri
Zachary Rubin
Marie Young
2023
Jon Beltz
Anastasia Tchaplyghine
Adam Howe
Poppy Tushingham
2022
Andrew Pottorf
2021
Mary Frazer
Etienne Bordreuil
Nelson Henrique da Silva Ferreira
Melania Zingarello
Türkan Pilavci
Troels Pank Arbøll
2020
It was not possible to make awards in 2020, because the RAI was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Applications are invited for the 2021 awards.
2019
Rodrigo Hernaiz
Francesca Minen
Irene Sibbing-Plantholt
Elyze Zomer
Marta Pallavidini and Ludovico Portuese (divided)
2018
Armando Bramanti
Costanza Coppini
Zenobia Homan
Luděk Vacin
Livio Warbinek
2017
Netanel Anor – The interdisciplinary abilities of Babylonian Seers: Evidence from a newly edited oil-omen tablet from the British Museum
Mary Frazer – Dealing with antiquity after the Neo-Assyrian period: the case of the Akkadian royal letters
Virginie Muller – The use of the dead and mortuary ceremonies in order to ensure social cohesion, according to Akkadian texts (2nd-1st millennium BC)
Silvia Salin – Words for loss of sensation and paralysis in Assyro-Babylonian medical texts: some considerations
Lisa Wilhelmi – “Akkadograms” in Akkadian texts: on the pseudo-logographic use of multi-element, mixed language spellings
2016
Giacomo Benati
Goesta Gabriel
Michela Piccin
Louise Pryke
Selena Wisnom