Sharon R. Steadman is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Cortland. She is Director of the Rozanne Brooks Ethnographic Museum and Director of the archaeological excavations at Çadır Höyük in central Türkiye. Her fieldwork has focused on Near Eastern archaeological work across the Middle East, Cyprus, and the Transcaucasian region. She has also carried out ethnographic work in Türkiye and India. Her research focuses on the archaeology of architecture, the investigation of ancient religions, and cultural responses to climate change.