2007 BAS Dig Scholarship Winner Essays

Ask anyone who’s ever volunteered on a dig—it’s the experience of a lifetime. And there’s no better way to get a sense of the exhilaration, and the exhaustion, of being a dig volunteer than by reading the stories of the volunteers themselves. Click on the names to read the reports written by the 2007 Biblical Archaeology Society Dig Scholarship winners.

Leslie Aylesworth

Leslie Aylesworth
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL
Tell es-Safi/Gath

Jenna Belobersycky

Jenna Belobersycky
Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Beth Shemesh

Jennifer Berge

Jennifer Berge
Concordia University, Irvine, CA
Tell es-Safi/Gath

Megan Bettilyon

Megan Bettilyon
UC-San Diego, CA
Khirbat al-Mudayna

Leah Brown

Leah Brown
Appalachian State Univ., Boone, NC
Hippos/Sussita

Christopher Clarke

Christopher Clarke
Claremont Graduate Univ.
Bethsaida

Andrea Creel

Andrea Creel
UC-Berkeley, CA
Ashkelon

Brian DiPalma

Brian DiPalma
Fresno Pacific Univ., Fresno, CA
Hazor

Daniella Garran

Daniella Garran
Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School, Orleans, MA
Bulgaria, Cambustica Field School

Andrew Glicksman

Andrew Glicksman
Catholic Univ. of America, Washington, D.C.
Khirbat al-Mudayna

Kristina Glicksman

Kristina Glicksman
Exeter College/Oxford University, Oxford, U.K.
Khirbat al-Mudayna

Christopher Hays

Christopher Hays
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Tell Halif

Amy Justice

Amy Justice
Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian Univ., Fort Worth, TX
Tel Dor

Sara Genessa Levavi
The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Tell es-Safi/Gath

Kenneth Miller

Kenneth Miller
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Gezer

Erin Pruckno

Erin Pruckno
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Tell Halif

Michael Resig

Michael Resig
Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL
Ashkelon

Terra Winston

Terra Winston
McCormick Theo. Seminary, Chicago, IL
Tel Dor