Biography

I am an art historian and curator specializing in the arts of Ancient Western Asia, particularly Mesopotamian and Anatolian art from the third to the first millennium BCE. Before joining the Department in January 2024, I took part in the renovation and reimagining of the permanent galleries of the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Between 2018–2022, I was employed at The Morgan Library and Museum in New York, where I co-curated the international loan exhibition She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia, 3400-2000 BC.

My work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., The Mellon Foundation, The Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and The Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TARII).