Marian H. Feldman is the W. H. Collins Vickers Chair in Archaeology and holds a joint appointment in the departments of the History of Art and Near Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Diplomacy by Design: Luxury Arts and an “International Style” in the Ancient Near East, 1400–1200 BCE and Communities of Style: Portable Luxury Arts, Identity, and Collective Memory in the Iron Age, both published by the University of Chicago Press.