Dr. Kiersten Neumann
@knpazuzu.bsky.social
Art historian, archaeologist, curator, educator 🖌️ | Assyria, Persia, Arabia 🌍 | Cultural Heritage, Museums, Provenance, Senses🪻 | Curator, ISAC Museum, UChicago 🪷 | Lecturer, Dept of Art History, UChicago 📖 | PhD, UCBerkeley 📚
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If you’re looking to dive into the highly sensorial world of the past, here’s 32 unique perspectives/chapters with which to do so!🪻🪔 💨 🎶
Forever grateful to all who contributed & supported this ambitious project 🖤
#sensorystudies #neareast
Print/paperback/eBook: routledge.com/9780367235284
Forever grateful to all who contributed & supported this ambitious project 🖤
#sensorystudies #neareast
Print/paperback/eBook: routledge.com/9780367235284
✨🎨 Now available for all your coloring dreams — “Megiddo Ivories Coloring Book” 🖍️✨
Created for the ISAC Museum special exhibition “Megiddo: A City Unearthed, A Past Imagined” (Sep 18, 2025–Mar 15, 2026) — 32 pages, Softcover, $7.99, ISBN: 978-1-61491-134-0
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Created for the ISAC Museum special exhibition “Megiddo: A City Unearthed, A Past Imagined” (Sep 18, 2025–Mar 15, 2026) — 32 pages, Softcover, $7.99, ISBN: 978-1-61491-134-0
▶️ isac.uchicago.edu/research/pub...
September 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
✨🎨 Now available for all your coloring dreams — “Megiddo Ivories Coloring Book” 🖍️✨
Created for the ISAC Museum special exhibition “Megiddo: A City Unearthed, A Past Imagined” (Sep 18, 2025–Mar 15, 2026) — 32 pages, Softcover, $7.99, ISBN: 978-1-61491-134-0
▶️ isac.uchicago.edu/research/pub...
Created for the ISAC Museum special exhibition “Megiddo: A City Unearthed, A Past Imagined” (Sep 18, 2025–Mar 15, 2026) — 32 pages, Softcover, $7.99, ISBN: 978-1-61491-134-0
▶️ isac.uchicago.edu/research/pub...
Thanks @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social!
Checkout my latest article “From Armageddon to Chicago: The Legacy of the University of Chicago’s Megiddo Expedition" in the new issue of NEA!
Checkout my latest article “From Armageddon to Chicago: The Legacy of the University of Chicago’s Megiddo Expedition" in the new issue of NEA!
New issue of Near Eastern Archaeology Vol. 88, No. 3 (2025) www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/nea/2025... @asor-research.bsky.social @chicagojournals.bsky.social Megiddo, the Mother of All Tells Part 2, The Iron Age @knpazuzu.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Thanks @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social!
Checkout my latest article “From Armageddon to Chicago: The Legacy of the University of Chicago’s Megiddo Expedition" in the new issue of NEA!
Checkout my latest article “From Armageddon to Chicago: The Legacy of the University of Chicago’s Megiddo Expedition" in the new issue of NEA!
Snapshots of “Allspice: Michael Rakowitz and Ancient Cultures” (May 13–Oct 31, 2025) @ the Acropolis Museum. Also very fun to see my ISAC object labels displayed with their Greek-translation counterparts 😆 🇬🇷
#michaelrakowitz #restorativejustice
www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en/allspice-...
#michaelrakowitz #restorativejustice
www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en/allspice-...
May 17, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Snapshots of “Allspice: Michael Rakowitz and Ancient Cultures” (May 13–Oct 31, 2025) @ the Acropolis Museum. Also very fun to see my ISAC object labels displayed with their Greek-translation counterparts 😆 🇬🇷
#michaelrakowitz #restorativejustice
www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en/allspice-...
#michaelrakowitz #restorativejustice
www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en/allspice-...
Thrilled to be celebrating the installation of J.L. Smith’s Persepolis Paintings in the ISAC Museum’s Persian Gallery! I’ll speak about Smith & the history of the paintings’ creation & display before being joined in conversation with 3 exceptional conservators who’ve helped make this a reality 🖤🎨
Joseph Lindon Smith’s Persepolis Paintings: Their Conservation & Exhibition
Join us to celebrate the new installation of Joseph Lindon Smith’s Persepolis Paintings in the ISAC Museum's Persian Gallery!
smithpersepolispaintings.eventbrite.com
January 31, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Thrilled to be celebrating the installation of J.L. Smith’s Persepolis Paintings in the ISAC Museum’s Persian Gallery! I’ll speak about Smith & the history of the paintings’ creation & display before being joined in conversation with 3 exceptional conservators who’ve helped make this a reality 🖤🎨
Now available to stream: exhibition lecture “(Un)broken Continuity: Counter-narratives of a Mesopotamian Past,” presented live Jan 2024 in connection with ISAW exhibition, “Through the Lens: Latif Al Ani’s Visions of Ancient Iraq.”
isaw.nyu.edu/events/archi...
isaw.nyu.edu/events/archi...
Exhibition Lecture: (Un)broken Continuity
This lecture will take place online. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Zoom information will be provided via confirmation email to registered participants.
isaw.nyu.edu
January 26, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Now available to stream: exhibition lecture “(Un)broken Continuity: Counter-narratives of a Mesopotamian Past,” presented live Jan 2024 in connection with ISAW exhibition, “Through the Lens: Latif Al Ani’s Visions of Ancient Iraq.”
isaw.nyu.edu/events/archi...
isaw.nyu.edu/events/archi...
Tell me how this 19th-c. chair @brooklynmuseum.org is a perfect embodiment of Falkor, the luckdragon with big dopey eyes, scaly back and all, yet it predates both Michael Ende’s 1979 Die unendliche Geschichte book & Wolfgang Peterson’s 1984 The Neverending Story film?! 🐉 #theneverendingstory #falkor
January 26, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Tell me how this 19th-c. chair @brooklynmuseum.org is a perfect embodiment of Falkor, the luckdragon with big dopey eyes, scaly back and all, yet it predates both Michael Ende’s 1979 Die unendliche Geschichte book & Wolfgang Peterson’s 1984 The Neverending Story film?! 🐉 #theneverendingstory #falkor
Reposted by Dr. Kiersten Neumann
ASOR will offer the Herbert Warren Mason Fellowship in 2025. The fellowship, valued at $5,000, is awarded to a scholar/poet/writer/artist whose project proposal comes closest in scope to Herbert Mason’s lifework and is in English. Applications are due March 3, 2025. Read more here: buff.ly/3C6HZw0
HERBERT WARREN MASON FELLOWSHIP - American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
Herbert Warren Mason Fellowship ; ASOR Fellowships ; Mason Fellowship ; ASOR grants and fellowships ; Herbert Mason
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January 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
ASOR will offer the Herbert Warren Mason Fellowship in 2025. The fellowship, valued at $5,000, is awarded to a scholar/poet/writer/artist whose project proposal comes closest in scope to Herbert Mason’s lifework and is in English. Applications are due March 3, 2025. Read more here: buff.ly/3C6HZw0
Reposted by Dr. Kiersten Neumann
#Jobalert! I am looking for a #postdoc to join my team in Warsaw for 2 years. The project focuses on Material Religion in #Mesopotamia. You'll be working with Rafał Solecki, two research assistants, and me. The application deadline is coming up soon: 14 Jan wnhs.uksw.edu.pl/.../employme...
Employment of Post-doctoral researcher – Wydział Nauk Historycznych UKSW
wnhs.uksw.edu.pl
January 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
#Jobalert! I am looking for a #postdoc to join my team in Warsaw for 2 years. The project focuses on Material Religion in #Mesopotamia. You'll be working with Rafał Solecki, two research assistants, and me. The application deadline is coming up soon: 14 Jan wnhs.uksw.edu.pl/.../employme...
The gift I didn’t know I needed 👽 🎅 😂 #merrychristmas #anunnaki
December 25, 2024 at 8:14 PM
The gift I didn’t know I needed 👽 🎅 😂 #merrychristmas #anunnaki
So grateful both to ASOR & TARII for helping make the Tigris Travel Grant a success in its first year and to the three recipients—Jaafar Jotheri, Mustfaa Al-Hussainy, Hasan Ahmed Qasim Berwary—thank you for sharing your research & your company with us in Boston! Read more here: buff.ly/3Dm8jm6
December 19, 2024 at 12:08 AM
So grateful both to ASOR & TARII for helping make the Tigris Travel Grant a success in its first year and to the three recipients—Jaafar Jotheri, Mustfaa Al-Hussainy, Hasan Ahmed Qasim Berwary—thank you for sharing your research & your company with us in Boston! Read more here: buff.ly/3Dm8jm6
December 12, 2024 at 9:43 PM
It feels like a fitting day to share photos from a recent visit with the imaginative & masterful Syrian-American artist & architect #MohamadHafez to explore his work “Eternal Cities,” installed as part of the new Ancient Egypt & Mesopotamia Gallery at Yale Peabody Museum curated by Agnete Lassen. 1/
December 8, 2024 at 10:50 PM
It feels like a fitting day to share photos from a recent visit with the imaginative & masterful Syrian-American artist & architect #MohamadHafez to explore his work “Eternal Cities,” installed as part of the new Ancient Egypt & Mesopotamia Gallery at Yale Peabody Museum curated by Agnete Lassen. 1/
#SensesSunday a midkhan (incense burner) used to burn oud to scent the guest area, or majlis, where it was passed around to guests as a sign of hospitality, today on display in the National Museum of Qatar, Doha #incense #incenseburner #qatar
December 1, 2024 at 10:05 PM
#SensesSunday a midkhan (incense burner) used to burn oud to scent the guest area, or majlis, where it was passed around to guests as a sign of hospitality, today on display in the National Museum of Qatar, Doha #incense #incenseburner #qatar
Reposted by Dr. Kiersten Neumann
Applications for the 2023-2024 Contingent Faculty Grants are due December 31st! The grants provide professional development and financial assistance funds to contingent faculty who study or teach about the ancient Mediterranean and its reception: classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f...
November 20, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Applications for the 2023-2024 Contingent Faculty Grants are due December 31st! The grants provide professional development and financial assistance funds to contingent faculty who study or teach about the ancient Mediterranean and its reception: classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f...
Reposted by Dr. Kiersten Neumann
The Whipple Museum are recruiting for a Collections Assistant - offered for 5 years, fixed term due to funding.
Wonderful collections and a brilliant team, this is a really excellent role for someone!
#museumjobs 📜 #histsci
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49320/
Wonderful collections and a brilliant team, this is a really excellent role for someone!
#museumjobs 📜 #histsci
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49320/
Collections Assistant (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Collections Assistant (Fixed Term) in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
November 29, 2024 at 8:47 AM
The Whipple Museum are recruiting for a Collections Assistant - offered for 5 years, fixed term due to funding.
Wonderful collections and a brilliant team, this is a really excellent role for someone!
#museumjobs 📜 #histsci
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49320/
Wonderful collections and a brilliant team, this is a really excellent role for someone!
#museumjobs 📜 #histsci
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49320/
“Masterpieces of the MANN,” a special exhibit currently on display at Maraya, #AlUla, showcasing collections from the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, including those of Alexander III of Macedon, Trajan & Marcus Aurelias, and a mosaic replete with beautiful creatures 🐍 #SaudiArabia
November 28, 2024 at 10:18 PM
“Masterpieces of the MANN,” a special exhibit currently on display at Maraya, #AlUla, showcasing collections from the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, including those of Alexander III of Macedon, Trajan & Marcus Aurelias, and a mosaic replete with beautiful creatures 🐍 #SaudiArabia
#SensesSunday Short circular ceramic incense burner from the Assyrian capital Dur-Šarrukin, Iraq, excavated by ISAC’s Khorsabad Expedition & recorded on this Catalog Card, in the ISAC Museum Archives 💨 🔥 #Assyria #Incense #Archives
On types & use of Assyrian censers www.academia.edu/111948197/_I...
On types & use of Assyrian censers www.academia.edu/111948197/_I...
November 25, 2024 at 11:59 PM
#SensesSunday Short circular ceramic incense burner from the Assyrian capital Dur-Šarrukin, Iraq, excavated by ISAC’s Khorsabad Expedition & recorded on this Catalog Card, in the ISAC Museum Archives 💨 🔥 #Assyria #Incense #Archives
On types & use of Assyrian censers www.academia.edu/111948197/_I...
On types & use of Assyrian censers www.academia.edu/111948197/_I...
A monumental thanks to the entire ASOR team for yet another incredible annual meeting, hybrid and all! None of this would be possible without all of you. You go above and beyond, and always with a smile 😊 🙏🖤🙌 #ASOR2024 #ASORstaff
Join us next year to celebrate ASOR’s 125th! 🍾
Join us next year to celebrate ASOR’s 125th! 🍾
November 25, 2024 at 1:05 PM
A monumental thanks to the entire ASOR team for yet another incredible annual meeting, hybrid and all! None of this would be possible without all of you. You go above and beyond, and always with a smile 😊 🙏🖤🙌 #ASOR2024 #ASORstaff
Join us next year to celebrate ASOR’s 125th! 🍾
Join us next year to celebrate ASOR’s 125th! 🍾
One more sleep until our Annual Meeting in Boston! Download our new app for information about sessions, workshops, business meetings, and special events being offered this year: buff.ly/4959W3D
#asor24 #boston
#asor24 #boston
November 20, 2024 at 12:42 PM
One more sleep until our Annual Meeting in Boston! Download our new app for information about sessions, workshops, business meetings, and special events being offered this year: buff.ly/4959W3D
#asor24 #boston
#asor24 #boston
Inaugurating #SensesSunday with this beautiful orthostat relief showing a seated figure holding a lotus flower to his nose 🪷 👃. Before him stand two bullmen supporting a winged sun disk.
Tell Halaf (ancient Guzana), Syria, Neo-Hittite (10th–9th century BCE). MMA 43.135.1. Rogers Funds, 1943.
Tell Halaf (ancient Guzana), Syria, Neo-Hittite (10th–9th century BCE). MMA 43.135.1. Rogers Funds, 1943.
November 18, 2024 at 2:43 AM
Inaugurating #SensesSunday with this beautiful orthostat relief showing a seated figure holding a lotus flower to his nose 🪷 👃. Before him stand two bullmen supporting a winged sun disk.
Tell Halaf (ancient Guzana), Syria, Neo-Hittite (10th–9th century BCE). MMA 43.135.1. Rogers Funds, 1943.
Tell Halaf (ancient Guzana), Syria, Neo-Hittite (10th–9th century BCE). MMA 43.135.1. Rogers Funds, 1943.
If you’re looking to dive into the highly sensorial world of the past, here’s 32 unique perspectives/chapters with which to do so!🪻🪔 💨 🎶
Forever grateful to all who contributed & supported this ambitious project 🖤
#sensorystudies #neareast
Print/paperback/eBook: routledge.com/9780367235284
Forever grateful to all who contributed & supported this ambitious project 🖤
#sensorystudies #neareast
Print/paperback/eBook: routledge.com/9780367235284
November 17, 2024 at 3:17 PM
If you’re looking to dive into the highly sensorial world of the past, here’s 32 unique perspectives/chapters with which to do so!🪻🪔 💨 🎶
Forever grateful to all who contributed & supported this ambitious project 🖤
#sensorystudies #neareast
Print/paperback/eBook: routledge.com/9780367235284
Forever grateful to all who contributed & supported this ambitious project 🖤
#sensorystudies #neareast
Print/paperback/eBook: routledge.com/9780367235284
Reposted by Dr. Kiersten Neumann
Case of the Day: TLINGIT TOTEM POLE
In 1899, a sacred totem pole (Hoots Kooteeya) of the Bear Den of the Tlingit People was taken from the beach in front of Hoots-Hit house, Old Cape Fox Village, Alaska.
mola.omeka.net/items/show/1...
In 1899, a sacred totem pole (Hoots Kooteeya) of the Bear Den of the Tlingit People was taken from the beach in front of Hoots-Hit house, Old Cape Fox Village, Alaska.
mola.omeka.net/items/show/1...
November 16, 2024 at 12:56 AM
Case of the Day: TLINGIT TOTEM POLE
In 1899, a sacred totem pole (Hoots Kooteeya) of the Bear Den of the Tlingit People was taken from the beach in front of Hoots-Hit house, Old Cape Fox Village, Alaska.
mola.omeka.net/items/show/1...
In 1899, a sacred totem pole (Hoots Kooteeya) of the Bear Den of the Tlingit People was taken from the beach in front of Hoots-Hit house, Old Cape Fox Village, Alaska.
mola.omeka.net/items/show/1...
As we roll into winter, here are some warming views from a recent trip to Saudi Arabia for the AlUla World Archaeology Symposium…
Hegra, before & during a sandstorm #ksa #arabia #otherworldly #desertlandscapes #nabataeantombs #jabalalbanat #jabalithlib #awas2024 #experiencealula
Hegra, before & during a sandstorm #ksa #arabia #otherworldly #desertlandscapes #nabataeantombs #jabalalbanat #jabalithlib #awas2024 #experiencealula
November 16, 2024 at 3:28 PM
As we roll into winter, here are some warming views from a recent trip to Saudi Arabia for the AlUla World Archaeology Symposium…
Hegra, before & during a sandstorm #ksa #arabia #otherworldly #desertlandscapes #nabataeantombs #jabalalbanat #jabalithlib #awas2024 #experiencealula
Hegra, before & during a sandstorm #ksa #arabia #otherworldly #desertlandscapes #nabataeantombs #jabalalbanat #jabalithlib #awas2024 #experiencealula
It's exciting to see so many new joins in the last few days and to feel communities rebuilding.
Here's a starter pack for museum professionals broadly... please reach out to be added! go.bsky.app/CQXG9A5
#museums #museumprofessionals #archaeology #culturalheritage #ancientworld
Here's a starter pack for museum professionals broadly... please reach out to be added! go.bsky.app/CQXG9A5
#museums #museumprofessionals #archaeology #culturalheritage #ancientworld
November 16, 2024 at 2:49 PM
It's exciting to see so many new joins in the last few days and to feel communities rebuilding.
Here's a starter pack for museum professionals broadly... please reach out to be added! go.bsky.app/CQXG9A5
#museums #museumprofessionals #archaeology #culturalheritage #ancientworld
Here's a starter pack for museum professionals broadly... please reach out to be added! go.bsky.app/CQXG9A5
#museums #museumprofessionals #archaeology #culturalheritage #ancientworld