Liat Naeh

is an Andrew W. Mellon fellow at the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Liat Naeh is an Andrew W. Mellon fellow at the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. In 2018, she graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where her PhD thesis focused on bone-inlaid boxes found in southern Levantine tombs during the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, examined as a case study for the gradual development of local art. She held fellowships at the Bard Graduate Center, New York, and The W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem, and was a Visiting Lecturer at Leipzig University, Germany. During her PhD studies, she was also a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, New York, and Fribourg University, Switzerland.