Phoenicia, Phoenician language, ancient Lebanon, ancient Syria, Iron Age archaeology, Near Eastern history, Near Eastern inscriptions, Phoenician history, Phoenician religion, antiquities trade, Levantine archaeology, Middle Eastern history, Mediterranean history, first millennium BCE,

WORKS IN PROGRESS
A Social History of Phoenicia from the Perspective of the Dead, manuscript expanded and revised from the 2013 dissertation, in preparation.
“The Carthaginian Infant Cremation Urns in the Kelsey Museum,” [permission to publish granted by the Kelsey Museum, University of Michigan] in preparation.
“Perfumed Oil Vessels in Levantine Phoenician Mortuary Contexts,” in preparation.
“Reexamining Levantine Phoenician Sacred Space,” in preparation.
“Beyond the ‘Woman in the Window’: Reexamining Sources for the Study of Levantine Phoenician Women,” invited article for a special section of Studi Epigrafici e Linguistici sul Vicino Oriente antico, in preparation for early 2018 submission.
“Excavating Belief: Multivalency and the Oil Bottle in Phoenician Levantine Mortuary Practice,” invited chapter in a multidisciplinary volume on mortuary ritual to be published in the Finnish Exegetical Society series, ed. A. Gudme and K. Valkama, in preparation for spring 2018 submission.
“Locating Phoenician Women: Space, Gender, and Social Roles in the Iron Age Central Levant,” invited chapter for Gender, Methodology and the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the Second Workshop held in Barcelona, February 1-3, 2017, ed. S. L. Budin, M. Cifarelli, A. Garcia-Ventura, and A. Millet Albà, Barcino: Monographica Orientalia; in preparation for Fall 2017 submission.
“Placing Them ‘In Eternity’: Exploring the Possibility of ‘Symbolic Mummification’ in the Treatment of Elite Levantine Phoenician Dead,” under review.
“Nebuchadnezzar’s Famous ‘Thirteen-Year’ Siege of Tyre Probably Didn’t Happen,” under review.

PEER-REVIEWED ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming [second author with Margaret Root], “‘Blue from Babylon’: Notes from the Curatorial Trenches,” [publication of a seal with Aramaic inscription] in The Adventure of the Illustrious Scholar: Papers Presented to Oscar White Muscarella, eds. E., Simpson and S. German; Leiden: E.J. Brill (expected publication: spring 2018).
2018 [third author with Suzie Thomas, Rick Bonnie, and Visa Immonen] “Researching Cultural Objects and Manuscripts in a Small Country: The Finnish Experience of Raising Awareness of Art Crime,” Arts 7: Special issue on “Advances in Art Crime Research” (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/special_issues/art_crime).
2018 “Late First Millennium BCE Levantine Dog Burials as an Extension of Human Mortuary Behavior,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research Issue 379: 19-41 (May).

OTHER ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming “Women in Ancient Phoenicia,” for The Blackwell Companion to Ancient Phoenicia, ed. Mark Woolmer (estimated publication: winter 2018).
2018 “Innovations in Near Eastern Studies Pedagogy: Using 3D Printers with Ancient Artifacts,” invited piece for the Committee for Undergraduate Middle East Studies section of Issues in Middle East Studies (IMES; April): 31-33.
2016 “What is Funerary Archaeology?” and “How do Artefacts End Up in Museums?” in The Five-Minute Archaeologist, ed. Cynthia Shafer-Elliott, Equinox Press.
2015 “Achaemenid,” “Arsacid,” “Cyrus,” “Human Sacrifice,” “Persepolis,” “Persia,” and “Sassanian,” in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, ed. E. Orlin, L. S. Fried, J. Wright Knust, M. L. Satlow, and M. E. Pregill, London: Routledge.
2009 “Writing Persepolis in Judah: Achaemenid Kingship in Chronicles,” in Images and Prophecy in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean, ed. Martti Nissinen and Charles Carter, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht; 163-194.
2006 “Beyond ‘David’s Palace’: Reliability and Interpretation in Text and Archaeology,” published as “Unearthing an Empire,” in Michigan Israel Observer: A Student Journal of Politics, Culture and History No. 1 (Winter): 6-14.
2004 “Pseudepigrapha as Exegesis: Jubilees and Pseudo-Philo on Exodus 19-20,” The McGill Undergraduate Journal of Jewish Studies 8: 129-141.