معرفی
Yağmur Heffron is a Lecturer in Archaeology at University College London (UCL), specializing in the archaeology of ancient Anatolia. Her research explores the intersection of material culture and textual history, with a focus on religious practices in early second-millennium Anatolia and contemporary labor dynamics in archaeological fieldwork. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and has held roles including Anniversary Fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and Assistant Director of the Neubauer Expedition to Zincirli (Türkiye). Currently, she serves as Assistant Director of the Uşaklı Höyük Archaeological Project.
Teaching responsibilities include modules such as 'Bronze Age States in the Ancient Middle East' and 'Migrants and Expats: Old Assyrian Identity Politics.' She is also a Tutor for the Ancient History MA program at UCL. Her external roles include Secretary of the British Association of Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA), Membership Secretary of the London Centre for the Ancient Near East (LCANE), and editorial roles for journals like Anatolian Studies.
Key research interests encompass religious identity, ritual hybridity, and labor relations between local and foreign archaeologists. Her fieldwork spans excavations at sites like Çadır Höyük and Uşaklı Höyük. Notable publications address topics such as Ottoman archaeology, material culture analysis, and the historiography of archaeological interpretation in Anatolia.
