James F. Osborne is an archaeologist who studies the ancient Middle East. His 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, recently published by Oxford University Press and the co-editor with Jonathan M. Hall of The Connected Iron Age: Interregional Networks in the Eastern Mediterranean, 900-600 BCE, forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. Osborne is Assistant Professor of Anatolian Archaeology at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute and in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.