Tasha Vorderstrasse is the University and Continuing Education Program Coordinator at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. She received her PhD in Near Eastern archaeology from the University of Chicago in 2004. Her work forcuses on understanding the identity of past communities through archaeological and textual evidence as well as the interconnections between different regions. She administers and teaches in the OI adult education program, and also does teacher workshops and tours of the OI Museum for UChicago students and other groups on a variety of topics from post-colonialism and the OI to legal history, medicine, and queens and princesses in the ancient world.
Two tours of the Oriental Institute Museum, a research organization and museum devoted to the study of ancient Near East at 1155 E. 58th Street, Chicago, IL 60637.
Tour 1: 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. Each tour leader of two tour leaders will host a group of 20 people maximum or 40 people in total.
Tour 2: 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Each tour leader of two tour leaders will host a group of 20 people maximum or 40 people in total.