Katherine Burge is a PhD student in the graduate group Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include early states, political economies, inter-regional contacts, glyptic in administrative systems, and cultural heritage policy. She has conducted fieldwork in Iraqi Kurdistan, southern Iraq, and southeastern Turkey. She received her B.A. from the University of Washington in 2009 and her M.A. from the Sorbonne in 2013.