Publications

Forthcoming — “‘All significant and worthy of preserving:’ Constructing Ancient Mesopotamia in the Ottoman Imperial Museum,” accepted for publication in Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World 42 (2025)
Forthcoming — “On Removal and Preservation,” accepted for publication in Art & Histories, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
Forthcoming — “The Demise of the Asiatic Lion: A Tale of Travel, Archaeology, and Colonialism,” accepted for publication in ARAM Periodical 26 (2024).

2023

“Whither Strukturforschung? Review of Ian Verstegen, ‘The New Vienna School of Art History: Fulfilling the Promise of Analytic Holism’ (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023),” Journal of Art Historiography 29 (December 2023): 1–12.
The ‘Discoverer’ and the ‘Informant’, in Raphael Greenberg and Yannis Hamilakis, eds. Archaeology, Nation, and Race – Critical Responses. Forum Kritische Archäologie 12: 134–139.
“Walls of Israel,” In Le Murs de Burhan Doğançay, edited by Bénédicte De Donker (Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess), 38–49.
- Catalogue essay for the Burhan Doğançay Retrospective at the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland (23 September 2023 - 11 February 2024).
“In Defense of Incremental Change," Forum Kritische Archäologie 12, Theme Issue: Archaeology as Empowerment: For Whom and How? Comments on Scholarly Activism: 66–68.

She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia. New York: The Morgan Library & Museum (with Sidney Babcock).
- The catalogue accompanying the exhibition that I co-curated at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York (October 2022 - February 2023).
Review of James F. Osborne, The Syro-Anatolian City-States: An Iron Age Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), Ancient Near Eastern Studies 59: 331-34.
“Kings, Dealers, and Librarians: The Story of a Statue of Shulgi,” Dispatch, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (with Anne Dunn-Vaturi).

“Specters of Influence: Meyer Schapiro and the New Vienna School.” RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 75/76 (2021): 207-20.
- A research article on art-historical theory and methodology in the early twentieth century, with comprehensive critiques of still-prevailing theories of influence and immanence. I draw in particular on the unpublished material in the Meyer Schapiro Collection at Columbia University.
“Of Consuls and Steamers: Material Foundations of Colonial Archaeology in Late Ottoman Iraq.” Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association 8, no. 1 (2021): 369-76.
- An analysis of the introduction of steamship services in Iraq as one of various material foundations that sustained large-scale archaeological campaigns in the nineteenth century. I draw not only on diaries and travel accounts in European languages but also hitherto untapped local sources and Ottoman Imperial archives.
“New Impressions and Future Directions: Columbia University’s Collection of Ancient Western Asian Seals.” EuropeNow 41, May 2021 (with Majdolene Dajani).
- A critical discussion of the seal collection of considerable size (about a thousand objects!) housed at Columbia University, with particular attention to its provenance, history of use, and chronological & thematic scope.

“Signed, Sealed, and Delivered: Carving and Using Seals.” In An Educator’s Handbook For Teaching about the Ancient World, edited by Pınar Durgun (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2021), 112-14 (with Pınar Durgun). Translated into Turkish/Türkçe tercümesi için bkz: “Ön Asya’da Mühür Yapımı ve Kullanımı,” 216-218.
- A cookbook-style recipe for a classroom activity on making modern impressions of ancient Western Asian seals.
“Documenting Disappearing History: The Mapping Mesopotamian Monuments Project.” Mar Shiprim, The International Association for Assyriology (with Matthew Peebles).
- An overview of the Columbia University’s fieldwork project in Turkey and Iraq which is led by Zainab Bahrani.

“Style, Ethnicity, and the Archaeology of the Aramaeans: The Problem of Ethnic Markers in the Art of the Syro-Anatolian Region in the Iron Age.” Forum Kritische Archäologie 6 (1): 1-72.
- A comprehensive critique of theories of style and collectivities in art history, resulting in a reevaluation of Syro-Anatolian artworks and related historical narratives (ca. twelfth to seventh centuries BC). I develop an alternative understanding of “style-analysis” and propose a new model to account for past subjectivities.