Kiersten Neumann’s research is grounded in theoretical approaches to ancient art, with a focus on sensory experience and visual culture of the first millennium BCE. Her many articles include topics of ritualized practice, built environments, and sensory experience in Assyria and Persia. Additionally, Neumann curates OI museum exhibitions, including “Persepolis: Images of an Empire” (2015–2017). Her current book projects include a volume on the sensory experience of the Neo-Assyrian Temple and The Routledge Handbook of the Senses in the Ancient Near East (Routledge, 2021), co-edited with Allison Thomason. Neumann is Curator of the Oriental Institute Museum and Research Associate at the Oriental Institute, and Lecturer in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago.