Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, and the College, published Local Power in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia (Equinox Publishing, 2012) and coedited Imagined Beginnings: The Poetics and Politics of Cosmogony, Theogony and Anthropogony in the Ancient World with Christopher Faraone (special issue of the Journal for Ancient Near Eastern Religions, 2012).