Dr. Kiersten Neumann

✨🎨 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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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!

More installation photos: www.instagram.com/p/DJo_HsfML4...

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
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The exhibit is exceptional. Well worth the trip!!!

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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 🖤🎨

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.

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.”
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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

HERBERT WARREN MASON FELLOWSHIP - American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) Herbert Warren Mason Fellowship ; ASOR Fellowships ; Mason Fellowship ; ASOR grants and fellowships ; Herbert Mason

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

#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

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

Join the fun! 🤩

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Wonderfully its story also extends into the gallery’s other display’s, encouraging visitors to find connections throughout. #syrianheritage #iraqiheritage #livinglandscapes #buildingblocks #sensoryexperience #memories #connections #communities #hope #contemporaryartinarchaeologicalmuseums

Here, Mohamad uses replicas of artifacts from the collection as building blocks in the creation of a sensorially rich, deeply profound, incredibly detailed, and ever surprising living neighborhood reminiscent of urban spaces of Syria and Iraq. The longer you look, the more you see. 2/

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

Contingent Faculty Grants: The grants provide professional development and financial assistance funds to contingent faculty. All contingent faculty who study or teach about the ancient Mediterranean and its reception are eligible. Application Period: October 1, 2023 through December 31, 2023

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...

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/

“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...

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! 🍾

I was recently at your newly opened museum and quite the collection—really wonderful space!

Thanks Harvard Art Museums, including Jen Thum & Carl Walsh, for hosting “The Museum is Your Classroom Workshop” for ASOR Annual Meeting attendees #asor2024 #museums #pedagogy

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

@drnwillburger.bsky.social has assembled a fantastic list of starter packs here as well

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If you have names I’m missing, please do pass them along! 😊

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.