Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Mesopotamia, Mesopotamian art and archaeology, Anatolian archaeology, looting and illegal trafficking of antiquities, archaeology and politics in the Middle East, archaeology and politics in Turkey, social identity and cultural exchange, and the effects of political change and ideology on the material record of the ancient Middle East.

PUBLICATIONS
Virginia R. Herrmann and Theo van den Hout (eds.), Ancient Anatolia and Syria: Highlights from the Collections of the Oriental
Institute, University of Chicago (forthcoming in Winter 2018)
Jean M. Evans, Jack Green and Emily Teeter (eds.), Highlights of the Collections of the Oriental Institute Museum”
(forthcoming in fall 2017).
“Behind the Scenes: Seal Carvers as Artists and Artisans in The Old Assyrian Period,” in Atici L., F. Kulakoğlu, G.
Barjamovic and A. Fairbairn (eds.), Current Research at Kültepe/Kanesh. An Interdisciplinary and Integrative Approach to Trade
Networks, Internationalism, and Identity During the Middle Bronze Age. (Journal of Cuneiform Studies Supplements 4). The
American Schools of Oriental Research: Boston, MA, 2014.
“The Anitta Text,” Assyrians in Istanbul. Anatolia's Prologue: Kültepe Kanesh Karum Exhibit Catalogue, ed. Fikri Kulakoğlu,
Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality Publications, 2010.
“Iconography of Protoliterate Seals,” Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond, ed. C.
Woods, The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2010.
MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION
Oya Topçuoğlu and Tasha Vorderstrasse, “Small Find, Big Values: A Study of Cylinders Seals and Coins from
Syria and Iraq on the Antiquities Market” (invited contribution to the International Journal of Cultural Property Special
Issue: New Insights into the Antiquities Market)
“Power and Identity Construction in the Kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia: An Iconographic Study”
Fiona R. Greenland, James Marrone, “Evaluating the Market Value of Cultural Artifacts from Looted
Archaeological Sites”