by Marian Feldman

Marian H. Feldman is the W.H. Collins Vickers Chair in Archaeology and Professor of History of Art and Near Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University. She specializes in the arts of the second and first millennium BCE in the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean, with research interests focusing on the role of arts in cultural interactions, object agency, and materiality. She is the author of 'Diplomacy by Design: Luxury Arts and an "International Style" in the Ancient Near East, 1400–1200 BCE' and 'Communities of Style: Portable Luxury Arts, Identity, and Collective Memory in the Iron Age,' both published by the University of Chicago Press.