Blair Fowlkes Childs is Visiting Lecturer at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She was an ISM long-term fellow in 2019-2020 and also curated the exhibition “Photographs of Dura-Europos: 1922-2022 and Onward” in 2022. During her short-term ISM fellowship, she will conduct research on altars and incense burners from Dura-Europos in the Art Gallery and the excavation archive, as well as on the depictions of altars in Dura’s famous wall paintings and relief sculptures. This exceptional corpus has great potential to enhance our knowledge of religious rituals across the Middle East and Iran during the first through the mid third centuries.