• Ph.D., University of Michigan
    • M.A., University of Ottawa
    • B.A., University of Oklahoma 

    • 2025. “The Late Babylonian Worship Scene at Persepolis.” In Mortals, Deities and Divine Symbols: Rethinking Ancient Imagery from the Levant to Mesopotamia. Studies Offered to Tallay Ornan, edited by B. Sass and L. Battini, 477-536. Archaeopress Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology 12. Bicester: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd.

    • 2023. The Persian World and Beyond. Achaemenid and Arsacid Studies in Honour of Bruno Jacobs at the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, October 3rd, 2019. Münster: Zaphon (co-editor with W.H.M. Henkelman).

    • 2023. “From Bīsotūn to Persepolis: Glyptic Imagery from the Persepolis Fortification Archive.” In Achaemenid Studies Today: Proceedings of the Mid-Term Conference of the Societas Iranologica Europaea held in Naples, 2017, December 11-13, edited by G.P. Basello, P. Callieri, and A.V. Rossi, 79-126. ISMEO Serie Orientale Roma n.s. 36. Rome: Scienze e Lettere S.r.l., già Bardi Editore.

    • 2023. “1. Introduction: Celebrating the Fifth Shipment of Persepolis Fortification Tablets (with W.F.M. Henkelman),” “6. Seals from the Fortification Archive,” “8. The Earth Far and Wide (with W.F.M. Henkelman),” “9. Holding Court (with W.F.M. Henkelman).” In Persepolis, Chicago, Tehran 2. The World of the Persepolis Fortification Tablets, edited by J. Nokandeh, W.F.M. Henkelman, T.P. Harrison, Y. Hassanzadeh, and S. Piran, 54-57, 57-61, 65-66, 70-71, Tehran: National Museum of Iran.

    • 2023. “A Glyptic Workshop at Persepolis.” In Kārnāmag-ī Pārsa: Selected Articles from the Persepolis World Heritage Site, edited by H. Fadaei, S. Delshad, M. Bordbar, and M.J. Owladhussein, 33-128. Tehran: Parthava.

    • 2023. “Introduction.” In The Persian World and Beyond. Achaemenid and Arsacid Studies in Honour of Bruno Jacobs at the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, October 3rd, 2019, edited by M.B. Garrison and W.H.M. Henkelman, 1-19. Münster: Zaphon (with W.F.M. Henkelman).

    • 2023. “Some Observations on a Scene Type Involving the Winged Symbol in Persepolitan Glyptic.” In The Persian World and Beyond. Achaemenid and Arsacid Studies in Honour of Bruno Jacobs at the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, October 3rd, 2019, edited by M.B. Garrison and W.H.M. Henkelman, 197-234. Münster: Zaphon.

    • 2021. “The Minor Arts.” In A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire, edited by B. Jacobs and R. Rollinger, 1397-1415. Blackwell's Companions to the Ancient World. London: Wiley Blackwell.

    • 2021. “Seals and Sealing.” In A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire, edited by B. Jacobs and R. Rollinger, 769-91. Blackwell's Companions to the Ancient World. London: Wiley Blackwell.

    • 2021. Persian translations of Garrison 1996, 1991, 2011, and Garrison and Henkelman 2020. In Šāh vā nokhbegān dar šāhanšāhī-ye Hakhāmanešī: Gozīdeh maqālātī dar bāb-e bāyegānī bārū-ye Takht-e Ǧamšīd / King and Elite in the Achaemenid Empire: Selected Studies based on the Persepolis Fortification Archive, edited by W.F.M. Henkelman, 21-40, 230-75, 291-94, and 295-417. Ganǧ-āmār-e Īrān-e Bāstān / Treasures of Ancient Iran 1. Tehran 1400 AP (2021 CE) (translated by Y. Safaee and H. Nikravesh).

    • 2021. “Pasargadai.” In The Herodotus Encyclopedia, edited by C. Baron, 1057-59. London: Wiley Blackwell.

    • 2021. “Persepolis.” In The Herodotus Encyclopedia, edited by C. Baron, 1086-89. London: Wiley Blackwell.

    • 2021. “Susa.” In The Herodotus Encyclopedia, edited by C. Baron, 1385-87. London: Wiley Blackwell..

    • 2021. “An Heirloom Seal from Persepolis: Assyria, Elam, and Persepolis.” In Achemenet. Vingt ans après. Études offertes à Pierre Briant à l'occasion des vingt ans du Programme Achemenet, edited by D. Agut-Labordère, R. Boucharlat, F. Joannès, A. Kuhrt, and M.W. Stolper, 143-68. Persika 21. Leuven: Peeters.

    • 2020. Aršāma and his World: The Bodleian Letters in Context; vol. 2: Bullae and Seals. Oxford: Oxford University Press (with W.F.M. Henkelman and D. Kaptan).

    • 2020. The Art of Empire in Achaemenid Persia: Studies in Honour of Margaret Cool Root, Achaemenid History 16. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten/Peeters (co-editor with E.R.M. Dusinberre and W.F.M. Henkelman).

    • 2020. “The Seal of Prince Aršāma: From Persepolis to Oxford.” In Aršāma and his World: The Bodleian Letters in Context; vol. 2: Bullae and Seals, edited by M.B. Garrison, W.F.M. Henkelman, and Deniz Kaptan, 46-166. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    • 2020. “Sigillophobe Suppliers and Idiosyncratic Scribes: Local Information Handling in Achaemenid Pārsa.” In The Art of Empire in Achaemenid Persia: Studies in Honour of Margaret Cool Root, edited by M.B. Garrison, E.R.M. Dusinberre, and W.F.M. Henkelman, 167-286. Achaemenid History 16. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten/Peeters (with W.F.M. Henkelman).

    • 2019. “A Demotic Tablet or Two in the Persepolis Fortification Archive.” ARTA 2019.003 (with A. Azzoni, J. Johnson, B. Muhs, C. Chandler, and E. Daly).

    • 2018. “Glyptic in the 1st Millennium.” In The World of Elam, edited by J. Álvarez-Mon, G. P. Basello, and Y. Wicks, 649-72. London: Routledge.

    • 2018. “Achaemenid Elamite Administrative Tablets, 4: BM 108963.” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 77: 89-102 (with M.W. Stolper and C.E. Jones).

    • 2017. The Ritual Landscape at Persepolis: Glyptic Imagery from the Persepolis Fortification and Treasury Archives. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 72. Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. 2018 Ehsan Yarshater Book Award.

    • 2017. “Sealing Practice in Achaemenid Times.” In Die Verwaltung im Achämenidenreich - Imperiale Muster und Strukturen. Administration in the Achaemenid Empire - Tracing the Imperial Signature: Akten des 6. Internationalen Kolloquiums zum Thema “Vorderasien im Spannungsfeld klassicher und altorientalischer Überlieferungen” aus Anlass der 80-Jahr-Feier der Entdeckung des Festungsarchivs von Persepolis, Landgut Castelen bei Basel, 14.-17. Mai 2013, edited by B. Jacobs, W.F.M. Henkelman, and M.W. Stolper, 517-80. Classica et Orientalia 17. Basel: Harrassowitz Verlag.

    • 2017. “Persepolis Administrative Archives.” In Encyclopædia Iranica, edited by E. Yarshater. Bibliotheca Persica Press: New York, 2017 (co-author with A. Azzoni, E. Dusinberre, W.F.M. Henkelman, C.E. Jones, and M.W. Stolper); http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/persepolis-admin-archive.

    • 2017. “Beyond Auramazdā and the Winged Symbol: Imagery of the Divine and Numinous at Persepolis.” In La religion perse à l’époque achéménide: état de la question et perspectives de recherché, edited by W.F.M. Henkelman and C. Redard, 185-246. Classica et Orientalia 16. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.

    • 2014. “Royal Name Seals of Darius I.” In Extraction and Control: Studies in Honor of Matthew W. Stolper, edited by W.F.M. Henkelman, C.J. Jones, and C. Wood, 67-104. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilizations 68. Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

    • 2014. “Glyptic Studies as Art History.” In Critical Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Art, edited by B.A. Brown and M.H. Feldman, 481-513. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

    My primary research interests are the glyptic arts of ancient Iran and Iraq in the early first millennium BC. I specialize in the glyptic preserved on two large archives from Persepolis, the Persepolis Fortification tablets and the Persepolis Treasury tablets.

    Margaret Cool Root and I are authors of Seals on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets, Volume I: Images of Heroic Encounter, Oriental Institute Publications 117 (Chicago 2001). In addition to the documentary work represented in that publication, my research has focused upon social aspects of glyptic production in workshops in Persepolis, especially the issues surrounding the impact of individuals of high status and/or administrative rank on the development of glyptic style and iconography in the early Achaemenid period. This work has also addressed the emergence and development of royal ideology in glyptic at Persepolis, religious imagery in Achaemenid art, and the relationship of glyptic of the early Achaemenid period with earlier glyptic traditions in Elam and Mesopotamia.

    • The First Cities: The Urban Revolution in Early Mesopotamia
    • Art of Empire: Assyria, Babylonia, and Persia
    • Art and Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
    • Survey of Art, Prehistoric to Medieval