Draft:Marian Feldman

Marian Feldman, American art historian, holds the W.H. Collins Vickers Chair in Archeology at Johns Hopkins University, where her scholarship focuses on Ancient Near Eastern Art, especially the areas of international exchange of material culture and ideas and collective memory. In the past she taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and shorter appointments at University of Heidelberg,  Bogazici University, and Stanford University's Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences. Her education was at Harvard University, with Irene Winter, and Columbia University with Edith Porada.

Published works such as Communities of Style: Portable Luxury Arts, Identity, and Collective Memory in the Iron Age Levant have been recognized as having significant implications across the field. Prof. Feldman was also the co-Principle Investigator of the international research collaboration, Material Entanglements in the Ancient Mediterranean And Beyond, with the National Hellenic Institute in Greece.