Reinhard Bernbeck is Professor i.R. of Western Asian archaeology at the Freie Universität Berlin and professor emeritus of Anthropology at Binghamton University. His interests include the prehistory of Iran, archaeological manifestations of repression, exploitation and suffering, and ideological dimensions of archaeological practice. He has carried out fieldwork in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Turkey, and Turkmenistan. He has also investigated several prisoner-of-war and forced labor camps from the 20th century in Germany. He is the author of Materielle Spuren des nationalsozialistischen Terrors (2017), co-editor (with Randall H. McGuire) of Ideologies in Archaeology (2011), Subjects and Narratives in Archaeology (with Ruth van Dyke, 2015), Between Memory Sites and Memory Networks (with Kerstin Hofmann and Ulrike Sommer, 2017), and Containers of Change (with Olivier Nieuwenhuyse and Koen Berghuijs, 2023).