Ömür Harmanşah is an assistant professor of archaeology and ancient Western Asian studies at Brown University. He works and teaches on the archaeology, architectural history, and material culture of the Middle East. He is the author of Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East (Cambridge, 2013). His academic interests involve intersections of place and landscape, bodily performance, local knowledge, collective memory, and political ecology. He is currently working on a cultural biography of rock reliefs and spring monuments in Anatolia and a critical archaeology of place.