Education: 
Ph.D. 2001 University of Chicago
M.A.  1994 University of Chicago
M.A.  1990 University of London (UK)
1986-1989 University of Freiburg (Germany)

Research Specialization:
Mesopotamian Archaeology (Neolithic to Iron Age), State Formation, Urban Complexity, Bureaucracy, Social History, Art History, History of Conflict and Warfare.

Employment:
2008 – present: Assistant Professor – Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
2008: Senior Research Associate – Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
2001-2007: Research Associate – Oriental Institute, University of Chicago

Cross-Appointment:
2008 – present: Associate Curator (Ancient Near East) – Royal Ontario Museum

Current Projects:
Hamoukar Expedition (director; since 2004)
Diyala Project (director; since 2002)

Courses:
NMC 260/1410: Introduction to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
NMC 363/1423: Mesopotamian Archaeology I: Prehistoric periods (10,000 – 2,300 B.C.)
NMC 364/1424: Mesopotamian Archaeology II: Historical Periods (2,300 – 539 B.C.)
NMC 491/1425: Mesopotamian Material Culture I: Art
NMC 1426: Mesopotamian Material Culture II: Architecture
NMC 1427: Archaeology of State Societies
NMC 1428: Problems in Mesopotamian Chronology: Chalcolithic and Early
Bronze Age Periods

Selected Publications:

in preparation:
• book:
Political Changes and Cultural Continuity at the Palace of the Rulers in Eshnunna (Tell Asmar) from the Ur III Period to the Isin-Larsa Period (ca. 2070 – 1850 B.C.).
• articles:
“Political Developments and Royal Ideology at Eshnunna – a View from the ‘Seal of the Rulers’”
“Warfare, Combat, and Urbanism in the Late Chalcolithic Period—new evidence from Hamoukar (Syria) and other sites.”

in press:
“Tutub” in: Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Archäologie

published:
2013
Mesopotamia: inventing our World. Exhibit Catalogue. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum.

2012
•      (with K. Grossman and T. Paulette), “Early Bronze Age Hamoukar: ‘Akkadian—and Beyond?” in Seven Generations Since the Fall of Akkad, ed. by H. Weiss. Harrassowitz. Studia Chaburensia, 3, pp. 279-299.       
•      (contributions to) Bir Umm Fawakhir Vol 2. Reports on the 1996-1997 survey Seasons, (Carol Meyer, ed.). Oriental Institute Communications 30. Chicago: Oriental Institute.
•      “Bureaucratic Backlashes–the agency of record-keeping in the development of early Mesopotamian society,” in Agency of Writing, ed. by Joshua Englehardt. University of Colorado Press.
•      “Eshnunna,” Wiley-Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Ancient History.
•      “Diyala Project,” Oriental Institute Annual Report 2010-2012: 33-37.
•      “Hamoukar,” Oriental Institute Annual Report 2001-2012: 69-76.

2011
•      “Archives and Bureaucratic Encoding during prehistory—a view through seals and sealings,” Journal of the Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies 5: 25-36.
•      “Hamoukar 2005-2010: Revisiting the Origins of Urbanism in Syria,” Oriental Institute News and Notes: 3-9.
•      “Diyala Project,” Oriental Institute Annual Report 2010-2011: 34-38.
•      “Hamoukar,” Oriental Institute Annual Report 2010-2011: 51-59.

2009       
•      “No Garden in Eden—Hunting for Syria’s first Urban Dwellers,” Archaeological Newsletter Series IV, No. 6, Royal Ontario Museum, pp. 1-4.
•      “Beyond the Garden of Eden – Competition and Early Warfare in Northern Syria (4500–3000 B.C.),” in: Schlachfeldarchäologie. Tagungen des Landesmuseums für Vorgeschichte Halle, 2. Halle: Landesdenkmalamt, pp. 17-30.
•      “Hamoukar,” Oriental Institute Annual Report 2008-2009: 77-87.

2008
•      “Cataloguing the Losses—The Oriental Institute’s Iraq Museum Database Project,” in: Catastrophe! The Looting and Destruction of Iraq’s Past, ed. by Geoff Emberling and Katharyn Hanson. Chicago: Oriental Institute. Oriental Institute Museum Publications 28: 51-64.
•      “The King is Dead, Long Live the King—the last days of the Shusin Cult at Eshnunna and its aftermath,” in: Religion and Power: Divine Kingship in the Ancient World and Beyond, ed. by Nicole Brisch. Chicago: Oriental Institute. Oriental Institute Seminars 4: 133-55.
•      “Diyala Project,” Oriental Institute Annual Report 2007-2008: 30-35.
•      “Hamoukar,” Oriental Institute Annual Report 2007-2008: 76-82.

2007
•     “Blutiges Ende einer frühen Stadt,” Spektrum der Wissenschaft, Juni 2007: 20-22.
•      “Hamoukar,” Oriental Institute Annual Report 2006-2007: 59-68.
•      “Diyala Project,” Oriental Institute Annual Report 2006-2007: 43-49.

2006
•      “Urbanism and Warfare—the 2005 Hamoukar, Syria, Excavations,” Oriental  Institute News and Notes: 1 – 11.
•      “Hamoukar,” Oriental Institute Annual Report 2005-2006: 65-77.

2005
•      “Beyond Cataloguing Losses: The Oriental Institute’s Iraq Museum Database
Project, University of Chicago,” Visual Resources 21.1 (March 2005): 93-113.
•      “Diyala Project,” Oriental Institute Annual Report 2004-2005: 27-35.
•      “Iraq Museum Database,” Oriental Institute Annual Report 2004-2005: 74-78.

2004
•      “Appendix B: Site Gazeteer,” in T.J. Wilkinson (et al.) On the Margins of the Euphrates. Settlement and Land Use at Tell es-Sweyhat and in the Upper Lake Assad Area, Syria. Tell es-Sweyhat I. Oriental Institute Publications 124, pp. 223-261. Chicago: Oriental Institute Publications.
•      “Diyala Project,” Oriental Institute Annual Report 2003-2004:  45-50.
•      “Hamoukar,” Oriental Institute Annual Report 2003-2004:  82-90.
•      “Iraq Museum Project,” Oriental Institute Annual Report 2003-2004:  106-114.

2003
•      “Appendix: Sealing Practice,” in Drehem Administrative Documents from the Reign of Amar-Suena by Markus Hilgert. Chicago: Oriental Institute Publications 121, pp. 603-24.
•      “A modern crime and an ancient mystery: The Seal of Bilalama,” in Festschrift Kienast, ed. by Gebhard Selz. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 274: 355-389.
•      “Diyala Project,” Oriental Institute Annual Report 2002-2003:  44-50. On-line: http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/AR/02-03/02-03_Diyala.pdf
•      “Iraq Museum Project,” Oriental Institute Annual Report 2002-2003:  73-80. On-line: http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/AR/02-03/02-03_Iraq_Museum.pdf

2002
•      “Administrative Complexity in Syria during the Fourth Millennium B.C.– the Seals and Sealings from Tell Hamoukar,” Akkadica  123.1: 35-56.
•      “Diyala Project,” Oriental Institute Annual Report 2001-2002:  31-38.
On-line: http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/AR/01-02/01-02_Diyala.html

2001
•      Political Changes and Cultural Continuity at the Palace of the Rulers in Eshnunna (Tell Asmar) from the Ur III Period to the Isin-Larsa Period (ca. 2070 – 1850 B.C.). Ph.D. Dissertation: University of Chicago (available as a PDF at http://home.uchicago.edu/%7Ecdreiche/DissTitle.html).
•      “Seals and sealings at Tell Asmar – a new look at an Ur III to Isin/Larsa Palace,” in Seals and Seal Impressions. Proceedings of the XLVe Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale Vol. II, edited by W.W. Hallo and I. J. Winter, 101-131. Bethseda, MD: CDL Press.
•      (with McGuire Gibson) “Diyala Objects Publication Project,” Oriental Institute Annual Report 2000-2001: 30 – 35.
On-line: http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/AR/00-01/00-01_Diyala.html

1999
•      (contributions to) A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, ed. by J. Black, A.R. George, and J.N. Postgate. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.

1998
•      “Clay sealings and tablets from Tell Asmar: an ancient Mesopotamian palace reinvestigated,” Oriental Institute News & Notes Fall 1998: 1 – 5. (on the web at http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/DIY/NN_FAL98/NN_Fal98.html)

1996
•      (+ E. S. Friedman) “Tell el-Judeidah 1995: The Amuq F and G horizons revisited,” in:  A. K. Yener et al., “The Oriental Institute Amuq Valley Projects, 1995,” Anatolica 22: 67 – 70 + figs. 5 – 9.