James Osborne

James Osborne is Associate Professor of Anatolian Archaeology at the University of Chicago’s Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. James’ research focus lies in the Bronze and Iron Ages of Turkey and surrounding regions, and includes thematic interests in spatial analysis and the built environment, monumentality, and territoriality. Among other book projects, he is the author of The Syro-Anatolian City-States: An Iron Age Culture, published in 2020 by Oxford University Press and, along with Jonathan M. Hall, the co-editor of The Connected Iron Age: Interregional Networks in the Eastern Mediterranean, 900-600 BCE, published by the University of Chicago Press (2022).