Publications

Books

The Discovery That Never Was: Art, Politics and Time in Tello (Ancient Girsu). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.
She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia, ca. 3400–2000 B.C., New York: The Morgan Library & Museum (with Sidney Babcock).
- Reviews: The New York Times, “In Search of Enheduanna, the Woman Who was History’s First Named Author” (9 Nov 2022); The New Yorker, “The Struggle to Unearth the World’s First Author” (19 Nov 2022); The Wall Street Journal, “Ancient Civilization in the First Person” (24 Nov 2022); Art in America, “Ancient Feminine Power” (19 Dec 2022); Near Eastern Archaeology 85, no. 4 (Dec 2022): 306–308; The New York Review of Books, “Enheduanna’s Brutal Muse” (16 Feb 2023); American Journal of Archaeology 128, no. 2 (April 2024): 279–86.

“Gentleman Smugglers: Towards a New History of Ancient West Asian Archaeology.” Accepted for publication in the Sculpture Journal.
“‘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 43.
“The Demise of the Asiatic Lion: A Tale of Travel, Archaeology, and Colonialism.” Accepted for publication in ARAM Periodical 36.
“All for a Silver Vase? Osman Hamdi Bey’s Indignant Resignation Letter from the Ottoman Imperial Museum,” Keshif: E-Journal for Ottoman-Turkish Micro Editions 3, no. 3 (2025): 78–88.
“The ‘Discoverer’ and the ‘Informant,’” Forum Kritische Archäologie 12 (2023): 134–139.
“Specters of Influence: Meyer Schapiro and the New Vienna School,” RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 75-76 (2021): 207–20.
“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.
“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 (2017): 1–72.

“On Removal and Preservation,” in Art & Histories, ed. Kaira M. Cabañas (Washington D.C.: The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the National Gallery of Art, 2025), pp. 130–148.
“Le Murs de Burhan Doğançay,” in Le Murs de Burhan Doğançay. Catalogue accompanying an exhibition at the Musées d‘Art et d‘Histoire de Genève (23 September 2023–11 February 2024), ed. Bénédicte De Donker (Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2023), pp. 39–49.
“Signed, Sealed, and Delivered: Carving and Using Seals,” in An Educator’s Handbook For Teaching about the Ancient World, ed. Pınar Durgun (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2020), pp. 112–14 (with Pınar Durgun).
- Translated into Turkish/Türkçe tercümesi için bkz: “Ön Asya’da Mühür Yapımı ve Kullanımı,” 216-218.

“In Defense of Incremental Change,” Forum Kritische Archäologie 12 (2023): 66–68. “Goddesses, Mothers, and Rulers: Womanhood in an Ancient Patriarchal Society,” Expedition 64, no. 2 (2022): 34–43.
“New Impressions and Future Directions: Columbia University’s Collection of Ancient Western Asian Seals,” EuropeNow 41 (2021) (with Majdolene Dajani).
“Documenting Disappearing History: The Mapping Mesopotamian Monuments Project,” Mar Shiprim, online publication of The International Association for Assyriology (with Matthew Peebles).

The Mapping Mesopotamian Monuments Project (2018): Hasankeyf (3191 words); Diyarbakır City Walls, Gates & Towers (2521 words); The Great Mosque of Diyarbakır (Ulu Cami) (2306 words); Gisgis Rock Relief (1185 words); Eğil Rock Relief (1461 words).

“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.
Review of James F. Osborne, “The Syro-Anatolian City-States: An Iron Age Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020),” Ancient Near Eastern Studies 59: 327-330.