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• A Statement on Teaching, not a "philosophy" but perhaps an opinionated point of view, or approach.

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Omur with his students

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Brown University Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World

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Spring 2009

• ARCH 2410 Archaeologies of Place

• ARCH 1710 Architecture and Memory

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Fall 2008

• ARCH 0030 Art in Antiquity: An Introduction

• ARCH 0250 Intimate Stories: Narrative in Ancient Visual Culture

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Spring 2008

• ARCH 1600 Archaeologies of the Near East

• ARCH 1800 Contemporary Issues in Archaeological Theory

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Fall 2007

• ARCH2300 The Rise (and Demise) of the State in the Near East

• ARCH1150 s01 Urbanism in the Archaeological Record

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Spring 2007

• AE0120 S09 Material Worlds: Art and Agency in the Near East and Africa.
  

• AE0120 S10 City and the Festival: Cult Practices and Architectural Production in the Ancient Near East Read the Critical Review

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Fall 2006

• AE 0037. Archaeology of Mesopotamia. Read the Critical Review.
  

• AE 0201 S02 Architecture, Body and Performance in the Ancient Near Eastern World.
  

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Reed College, Department of Art

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These are the courses I taught at Reed College, Department of Art in Portland Oregon, when I was there from Spring 2005 to the end of Spring 2006:

• Architecture and Memory: Modern Theories and Ancient Paradigms of Architectural Space Between East and West (Spring 2006).
  

• Introduction to Art History (Fall 2005 and Spring 2006).
  

• Material Worlds: Skilled Craftsmanship and Symbolic Technologies in Africa and the Near East (Fall 2005).

• Contemporary issues in archaeological theory: interpreting material culture and architectural space (Spring 2005).
  

• Commemorative monuments and cultural representations: architecture and the city in the ancient Near East (Spring 2005).

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University of Pennsylvania Department of Art History

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The courses I taught and co-taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Art History:

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  ViewEmpire and History: Assyria, Persia, Rome. An upper level undergraduate seminar, co-taught with Prof Holly Pittman in Spring 2003.
  
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  ViewArchitecture and the City in the Ancient Near East. Undergraduate course which I developed and taught for Penn's College of General Studies and the Department of Art History twice in Spring 2001 and Fall 2004.

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