Books and Articles
Diplomacy by Design: Luxury Arts and an 'International Style' in the Ancient Near East, 1400-1200 BCE. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Edited with M. Heinz. Representations of Political Power: Case Histories in Times of Change and Dissolving Order in the Ancient Near East. Eisenbrauns, 2007.
Edited with J. Cheng. Ancient Near Eastern Art in Context: Studies in Honor of Irene J. Winter by Her Students. Brill, 2007.
"Darius and the Heroes of Akkad: Affect and Agency in the Bisitun Relief." Pp. 265-293 in Ancient Near Eastern Art in Context: Studies in Honor of Irene J. Winter by Her Students, ed. J. Cheng and M. H. Feldman. Brill, 2007.
"Frescoes, Exotica, and the Reinvention of the Northern Levantine Kingdoms during the Middle Bronze Age." Pp. 39-65 in Representations of Political Power: Case Histories in Times of Change and Dissolving Order in the Ancient Near East, ed. M. Heinz and M. H. Feldman. Eisenbrauns, 2007.
"Assur Tomb 45 and the Birth of the Assyrian Empire," Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 343 (August 2006): 21-43.
"Mesopotamian Art." Pp. 281-301 in Companion to the Ancient Near East, Blackwells Companions to the Ancient World series, ed. Daniel Snell, (Oxford: Blackwell), 2005.
"Nineveh to Thebes and Back: Art and Politics between Assyria and Egypt in the Seventh Century BCE," in the proceedings of the 49th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, London, 7-11 July 2003, Iraq 66 (2004): 141-150.
"Ambiguous Identities: The 'Marriage' Vase of Niqmaddu II and the Elusive Egyptian Princess." Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 15.1 (2002): 75-99.
"Luxurious Forms: Redefining a Mediterranean "International Style," ca. 1400-1200 B.C.E." Art Bulletin 84 (2002): 6-29.
"The Iconography of Power: Reading Late Bronze Age Symbols," Archaeology Odyssey 5/3 (May/June 2002): 26ff.
"Mesopotamia." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. Volume 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 384-390.
"Ties that Bind: Luxury Goods and Royal Gifting in the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East," Center 18: Record of Activities and Research Reports, June 1997-May 1998. Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, 1998. Pp. 77-81.
Ivories from the Ancient Near East from Harvard University Collections (Harvard University Art Museums Gallery Series, no. 3). Cambridge: Harvard University Art Museums, 1993.
Book Reviews and Catalogue Entries:
Review of Claudia Suter and Christoph Uehlinger, eds., Crafts and Images in Contact: Studies on Eastern Mediterranean Art of the First Millennium BCE, (OBO 210, 2005). Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 348 (2007): 102-104.
Review of Timothy Potts, Michael Roaf, and Diana Stein, Culture through Objects: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honour of P.R.S. Moorey, (2003). American Journal of Archaeology 110.3 (July 2006): 508-510.
Review of Frederick N. Bohrer, Orientalism and Visual Culture: Imagining Mesopotamia in Nineteenth-Century Europe, (2003) for CAAReviews, posted online April 7, 2005.
Review of Zainab Bahrani, The Graven Image: Representation in Babylonia and Assyria, (2003) for the Journal of the American Oriental Society 124.3 (2004): 599-601.
Review of Manfred Bietak, ed., The Synchronisation of Civilisations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium B.C., Proceedings of an International Symposium at Schloss Haindorf, 15th-17th of November 1996 and at the Austrian Academy, Vienna, 11th-12th of May 1998 (2000). Journal of the American Oriental Society 122.4 (2002): 867-868.
Review of Christoph Uehlinger, ed., Images as Media: Sources for the Cultural History of the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean (1st Millennium BCE), (2000). Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 326 (2002): 96-98.
Review of Shelley Wachsmann, Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant (Texas A&M University Press, 1998). Journal of the American Oriental Society 120.4 (2000): 660-661.
Catalogue entry on funerary relief of Egyptian Official Ptahshepses in Harvard's Art Museums: 100 Years of Collecting, 94-95. Cambridge: Harvard University Art Museums and Abrams, 1996.
Catalogue entry on Levantine scaraboid seal in From Pasture to Polis: Art in the Age of Homer ed., S. Langdon, 188-190. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1993.
Forthcoming Publications
"Visual Hybridity and International Kingship in the Late Bronze Age," in Proceedings of the Third International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Paris, April 15-19, 2002, eds., J.-C. Margueron, P. de Miroschedji, and J.-P. Thalmann, in press.
"Classification and Contextualization of 2nd Millennium Ivories: The Case of Ugarit." To appear in Syrian and Phoenician Ivories of the Early First Millennium BCE: Chronology, Regional Styles, Iconographic Repertories, and Patterns of Inter-Regional Distribution, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop, Pisa, December 9th-11th, 2004, ed. S. Cecchini and S. Mazzoni.
"The Lives and Deaths of Mesopotamian Monuments." To appear in Dialogues in Art History, Studies in the History of Art Series, ed. T. O'Malley. National Gallery of Art, distributed by Yale University Press.
"Hoarded Treasures: The Megiddo Ivories and the End of the Bronze Age." To appear in Kingdoms of Iron, Kingdoms of Ivory: Opulence and Empire in the Ancient Near East, ed. G. Emberling. Oriental Institute Publications.
"Knowing the Foreign: Power, Exotica, and Frescoes in the Middle Bronze Age Levant." To appear in the Proceedings of the 51e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Chicago, July 18-22, 2005, ed. M. T. Roth and J. Myers. Oriental Institute Publications.
"Enheduanna," encyclopedia entry in the Oxford World Encyclopedia of Women.