Assistant Prof of Instruction @NorthwesternU @MenaProgramNU @menalanguages. PhD in Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology @UChicago. Proud Istanbulite.
Joined March 2015
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My new article with Tasha Vorderstrasse on Mesopotamian cylinder seals and coins on the online antiquities market is out! Check it out in the latest issue of IJCP dedicated to antiquities, provenance, trade, and looting. bit.ly/2MRTmg5
Hey @cta! Can you remind your drivers not to block intersections like they own the streets? N-bound #22 at Clark&Roscoe, 4/23 at 11:45am.
Hey @cta, can you tell your drivers not to look a mom with a stroller running to catch the bus straight in the eye and drive off, so we don't have to wait 25 min in the hot sun for the next bus? #8 bus at Roscoe and Halsted at 1:15pm yesterday.
First conference post-baby. Feels good to be on familiar ground. #keymanturkishstudies @BuffettInst @NorthwesternUni
We're excited to release the Call for Papers for the 2022 Keyman Conference on Turkey, June 3-4.
This year's theme is "Politics of Archaeology and Heritage in Turkey and Post-Ottoman Lands."
Applications are due February 19.
More details at bit.ly/keymanconf2022cfp
Happy 200th birthday, Schliemann, you idiot! (Let’s just not even talk about the paragraph after that.)
On Schliemann’s 200th birthday, let’s remember the time he thought that it was more plausible that toads could live for millennia than that they could dig holes. 🐸
ALT Excerpt from “Troy and it’s remains” p157: “among the huge blocks of stone at a depth of from 12 to 16 meters…I found two toads… they must have spent 3000 years in these depths. It is very interesting to find in the ruins of Troy living creatures from the time of Hector and Andromache, even though these creatures are but toads”
Betrayed by my own alma mater! My husband (PhD 2020) is PhD but I'm (PhD 2016) Ms., is that right @UChicagoAlumni?!?! You might want to hold off on those donation drive calls for a while and correct your records.
Our final speaker is JoAnn Scurlock building connections between Sassanian animal seals, seasons and Zoroastrian cultic festivals. #ASOR2021 #asor21 #sealsandsealing
The Penn takeover of the seals session continues with Katherine Burge speaking about seals and sealings from the Lower Town Palace at Tell Leilan #ASOR2021 #asor21 #sealsandsealing
Continuing with Early Dynastic seals, David Mulder @PennArtHistory provides an alternate reading of the boat-god scene using glyptic and textual evidence. #ASOR2021 #asor21 #sealsandsealing
Jumping ahead a couple millennia with Holly Pittman to talk about Early Dynastic I seals and sealings at Tell Al Hiba/Lagash #ASOR2021 #asor21 #sealsandsealing
Sitting in a real room with a bunch of colleagues and listening to a talk about the Column of Constantine in Istanbul #ASOR2021 #asor21 #conferencinginperson #allthefeels
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A federal judge in Manhattan rejected a lawsuit by the Turkish government seeking the return of an ancient marble idol. According to the ruling, Turkey had had decades to contest the presence of the sculpture in the United States. nyti.ms/2WWusSQ
New publication alert! Another great collab with @fargreenland and Tasha Vorderstrasse continuing our work on the #MANTISproject
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After an embarrassingly long pandemic delay, my review of Plundered empire: acquiring antiquities from Ottoman lands is finally out: bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2021/2021.…
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A year after Facebook banned the sale of ancient artefacts, you can pick up an Ancient Egyptian sarcophagus or a Byzantine mosaic by using complicated research techniques like typing "monuments for sale" in the search bar. Investigation in @thesundaytimes thetimes.co.uk/article/loote…
