Ömür Harmanşah is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. His research focuses on the history of architecture and cities in the ancient Near East, as well as questions of place, landscape and memory. He has been directing the Yalburt Yaylasi Archaeological Landscape Project, a regional survey in west-central Turkey since 2010. In the past he has worked on archaeological projects in Turkey and Greece, including Gordion, Ayanis, Kerkenes Dağ and Isthmia. His articles have been published in journals such as the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, Archaeological Dialogues and the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research.