I have listed all of my current and forthcoming publications on this page, organized by topic, with links to pdfs or publication websites. If you would like a copy of one of my publications that is not available here, please let me know!
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Achaemenid (and Late Period) Egypt
How (Not) to Find Persians in Egypt. In R. Shayegan and R. Rollinger (ed.), Proceedings of the First Achaemenid Workshop. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag (submitted to editors).
The Persian Domination and the Fourth Century BC (Twenty-Seventh to Thirtieth Dynasties). In I. Shaw (ed.), The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, 2nd Oxford: Oxford University Press (submitted to editor).
Religious Innovation in Achaemenid Egypt: The Case of the Hibis Temple. In R. Shayegan (ed.), Proceedings of the 14th Melammu Symposium. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (submitted to editor).
Review of Aršāma and His World: The Bodleian Letters in Context, edited by C. J. Tuplin and J. Ma. Ancient West and East 22, 2023, 486–9. [link]
King Darius’ Red Sea Canal. FEZANA Journal 35(4), 2021, 27-30. [pdf]
‘The Spear of the Persian Man Has Gone Forth Far:’ The Achaemenid Empire and Its African Periphery. In T. Daryaee and R. Rollinger (ed.), Iran and Its Histories: From the Beginnings through the Achaemenid Empire. Proceedings of the First and Second Payravi Lectures on Ancient Iranian History, UC Irvine, March 23rd, 2018 and March 11th-12th, 2019, 291-336. Classica et Orientalia 29. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021. [link]
Persians in Egypt. In D. T. Potts, E. Harkness, J. Neelis and R. McIntosh (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Asia and Africa. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell. [link]
Udjahorresnet the Persian: Being an Essay on the Archaeology of Identity. In M. Wasmuth and P. P. Creasman (ed.), Udjahorresnet and His World, 59-74. Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 26. Tucson: The Egyptian Expedition, 2020. [link]
Archaeology of Empire in Achaemenid Egypt. Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. [link]
Reviews
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- E. Nodet, Revue Biblique 130, 2023, 155;
- K. Pakka, AramacoWorld, 8/25/2021;
- C. Price, Ancient Egypt 21(2), 2020, 60;
- E. Rehm, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 110, 2020, 296-301;
- J. P. Stronk, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2020.09.07.
How to Find Persians in Egypt: The Archaeology of Achaemenid Egypt. EUP Blog, 12/16/2019. [link]
The Role of Coinage in the Political Economy of Fourth Century Egypt. In P. McKechnie and J. A. Cromwell (ed.), Ptolemy I and the Transformation of Egypt, 404-282 BCE, 70-119. Mnemosyne Suppl. 415. Leiden: Brill, 2018. [link]
Pioneers of the Western Desert: The Kharga Oasis in the Achaemenid Empire. In B. S. Düring and T. D. Stek (ed.), The Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes: A Comparative Study of Empires in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean World, 86-114. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. [link]
Contact Points: Memphis, Naukratis, and the Greek East. In J. Spier, T. Potts and S. E. Cole (ed.), Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World, 82-8. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2018. [link]
Coinage in Egypt. In J. Spier, T. Potts, and S. E. Cole (ed.), Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World, 113-115. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2018. [link]
Kharga Oasis. In E. Daniel (ed.), Encyclopaedia Iranica XVI, Fasc. 4, 431-4. Leiden: Brill, 2018. [link]
Roman Collecting and the Biographies of Egyptian Late Period Statues. World Archaeology 48(2), 2016, 226-38. [pdf]
Memories of the Second Persian Period in Egypt. In J. M. Silverman and C. Waerzeggers (ed.), Political Memory in and after the Persian Empire, 165-202. Ancient Near East Monographs 13. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2015. [pdf]
The Sixth Satrapy: The Archaeology of Egypt under Achaemenid Rule. Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 5(4), 2013, 12-13. [pdf]
Achaemenid Empire
Achaemenid Silver: An Essay on the Fungibility of Meaning. In St. J. Simpson (ed.), Gold, Silver and Glass: New Insights into Power and Luxury Crafts from the Middle East and the Caucasus to Eastern Europe and the Eurasian Steppe. Archaeopress Archaeology. Oxford: Archaeopress (submitted to editor).
On the Date and Cultural Context of Sir Aurel Stein’s Gilgit Rhyton. In B. Hensellek, J. A. Lerner and H. P. Colburn (ed.), In Search of Cultural Identities: Essays on the Art of Western and Central Asia in Honor of Prudence Oliver Harper. Inner and Central Asian Art and Archaeology. Turnhout: Brepols (submitted to editors).
Some Material Correlates of Drinking in the Achaemenid Empire. In S. Farridnejad and T. Daryaee (ed.), Food for Gods, Food for Mortals: Culinary and Dining Practices in the Greater Iranian World, 51–65. Čistā: Studies in the History, Cultures and Religions of the Iranian World 1. Irvine: UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies, 2022. [link]
Von Silber und Getreide – Zahlungsmittel und Wirtschaft im Achämenidenreich. In Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe (ed.), Die Perser: Am Hof der Großkönige, 40-5. Zaberns Bildände zur Archäologie. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2021. [link]
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- Published simultaneously in Antike Welt Sonderheft 10(21), 2021, 40–5. [link]
Ernst Herzfeld, Joseph Upton and the Artaxerxes Phialai. Metropolitan Museum Journal 55, 2020, 112-17. [link]
Globalization and the Study of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. In T. Hodos (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Globalization, 871-84. Abingdon: Routledge, 2017. [pdf]
Art of the Achaemenid Empire and Art in the Achaemenid Empire. In B. A. Brown and M. H. Feldman (ed.), Critical Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Art, 773-800. Boston: De Gruyter, 2014. [pdf]
Connectivity and Communication in the Achaemenid Empire. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 56(1), 2013, 29-52. [pdf]
Persepolis
The Apadana at Persepolis. In P. L. Bonfitto (ed.), World Architecture and Society: From Stonehenge to One World Trade Center, 356-61. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2022. [link]
Seal Production and the City of Persepolis. In E. R. M. Dusinberre, M. B. Garrison and W. F. M. Henkelman (ed.), The Art of Empire in Achaemenid Persia: Studies in Honour of Margaret Cool Root, 287-308. Achaemenid History 16. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 2020. [link]
Gemelli Careri’s Description of Persepolis. Getty Research Journal 9, 2017, 181-90. [pdf]
A Modern Architect in the Ancient World. Index Magazine (Harvard Art Museums), 12/7/2015. [link]
Parthian Art
‘Dura and the Problem of Parthian Art’ (Almost) a Hundred Years Later. In A. H. Chen and L. R. Brody (ed.), Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future. Studies in Classical Archaeology. Turnhout: Brepols (submitted to editor).
Parthian Art. In J. Nokandeh (ed.), The Persian Empire. Tehran: National Museum of Iran and Beijing Palace Museum (submitted to editor).
Palmyra and the Problem of Parthian Art. In R. Raja (ed.), Palmyra in Perspective, 175–198. Studies in Palmyrene Archaeology and History 11. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024. [link]
A Brief Historiography of Parthian Art, from Winckelmann to Rostovtzeff. Journal of Art Historiography 28/HPC1, 2023, 1–26. [pdf]
A Parthian Shot of Potential Arsacid Date. Digital Archive of Brief Notes and Iran Review 8, 2021, 35-40. [link]
Method, Theory and Historiography
Religion and Empire in the Ancient Near East: Some Illustrative Examples from the Achaemenid Far West. In S. Zaia, G. Konstantopoulos and H. Dixon (ed.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Ancient Near Eastern Religion. London: Bloomsbury Academic (submitted to editor).
Material Styles: International and Local Styles in Religious Material Culture. In C. E. Barrett (ed.), Handbook of the Archaeology of Ancient Mediterranean Religions. Abingdon: Routledge (submitted to editor).
Louise de la Marinierre’s “A Journey to Fars.” Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 78(4): Recent Acquisitions: A Selection 2018-20, 2021, 12.
Review of Kings, Countries, Peoples: Selected Studies on the Achaemenid Empire by Pierre Briant. Journal of the American Oriental Society 140(3), 2020, 745-7.
Orientalism, Postcolonialism, and the Achaemenid Empire: Meditations on Bruce Lincoln’s Religion, Empire and Torture. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 54(2), 2011, 87-103. [pdf]
(with R. C. Hughes) Movement and Materiality: Mobile Cores and the Archaeology of Political Boundaries. Archaeological Review from Cambridge 25(2), 2010, 43-56. [pdf]
Near Eastern and Iranian Art More Broadly
The Cities of Persia. In R. Raja (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Hellenistic and Roman Syria and the Near East. Oxford: Oxford University Press (submitted to editor).
(ed. with B. Hensellek and J. A. Lerner) In Search of Cultural Identities: Essays on the Art of Western and Central Asia in Honor of Prudence Oliver Harper. Inner and Central Asian Art and Archaeology. Turnhout: Brepols.
(with O. Oudbashi and F. Carò) Coins from Qasr-e Abu Nasr: Archaeometallurgical and Numismatic Studies on Pre-Islamic Coins Excavated in South-Central Iran. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 15(10), 2023, no. 146. [link]
Ziggurat of Ur. In P. L. Bonfitto (ed.), World Architecture and Society: From Stonehenge to One World Trade Center, 488-93. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2022. [link]
Ancient Iran. Oxford Bibliographies in Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, 2020. [link]
(with A. M. Belis) An Urartian Belt in the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Origins of the Parthian Shot. Getty Research Journal 12, 2020, 195-204. [link]
The Canon of Ancient Iranian Art: From Grand Narratives to Local Perspectives. In A. Gansell and A. Shafer (ed.), Testing the Canon of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology, 111-30. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. [link]
From the Mediterranean to China – After Alexander. In S. Ebbinghaus (ed.), Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings, 304-51. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Art Museums, 2018. [link]
(with S. Ebbinghaus) Emblematic Animals at Iron Age Feasts. In S. Ebbinghaus (ed.), Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings, 87-133. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Art Museums, 2018. [link]
A Puzzling Pitcher. Index Magazine (Harvard Art Museums), 7/28/2015. [link]
Classical Art, Archaeology and History
Forum of Lepcis Magna. In P. L. Bonfitto (ed.), World Architecture and Society: From Stonehenge to One World Trade Center, 394-9. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2022. [link]
Amasis (Persian General), 58-9; Ariaramnes the Persian, 132; Artaphernes, son of Hystaspes, 157-8; Artobazanes, 166-7; Badres of Pasargadae, 215; Bagaeus, 216; Boges, 235-6; Nile River, 977-9; Nitetis, 982-3; Oeobazus of Cardia, 1001; Otanes (1), son of Pharnaspes, 1026-7; Patiramphes, 1060; Pausiris, 1065; Phanes, 1108-9; Thannyras, 1423. In C. Baron (ed.), The Herodotus Encyclopedia. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2021. [link]
(with D. Sneed) Ancient Glass in the University of Colorado Museum. University of Colorado Department of Classics Online Catalogue, 10/11/2018. [link]