About
Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki’s Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires specializing in the social and economic history of the Ancient Near East. Previously University Lecturer in Assyriology at Leiden University. Education
PhD Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University; 2018
Ancient World
MPhil Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University; 2015
Ancient World (Assyriology and Ancient Near East)
MA University of Chicago; 2009
Middle Eastern Studies
BA University of Oxford; 2007
Oriental Studies (Jewish Studies) Work Shared in CORE
Articles
Book chapters
Other Publications
Books
Papers
- 2022. BabyLemmatizer: A Lemmatizer and POS-tagger for Akkadian, with A. Sahala, T. Alstola, and K. Lindén. Pp. 14–18 in CLARIN Annual Conference Proceedings, ed. T. Erjavec and M. Eskevich. Prague.
- 2021. A State of Extraction: Navigating Taxation in Ancient Polities. Pp. 1–35 in Ancient Taxation: The Mechanics of Extraction in Comparative Perspective, ed. J. Valk and I. Soto Marín. New York: NYU Press.
- 2020. The Eagle and the Snake, or anzû and bašmu? Another Mythological Dimension in the Epic of Etana. Journal of the American Oriental Society 140(4): 889-900. https://doi.org/10.7817/jameroriesoci.140.4.0889
- 2020. Crime and Punishment: Deportation in the Levant in the Age of Assyrian Hegemony. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 384: 77-103. https://doi.org/10.1086/710485
- 2019. The Origins of the Assyrian King List. Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History 6(1): 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1515/janeh-2017-0009
- 2016. “They Enjoy Syrup and Ghee at Tables of Silver and Gold”: Infant Loss in Ancient Mesopotamia. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 59(5): 695-749. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685209-12341412
- 2015. Representations of Power: Shaping the Past and the Present (Response), with Beate Pongratz-Leisten. Pp. 643-651 in Robert Rollinger and Erik van Dongen (eds.), Mesopotamia in the Ancient World: Impact, Continuities, Parallels. Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium of the Melammu Project Held in Obergurgl, Austria, November 4-8, 2013. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag.
Reviews
- 2022. Review of Giovanni Battista Lanfranchi, Raija Mattila, and Robert Rollinger (eds.), Writing Neo-Assyrian History. Sources, Problems, and Approaches. Archiv für Orientforschung 55: 189–194.
- 2021. Review of Jan Dušek and Jana Mynářová (eds.), Aramaean Borders: Defining Aramaean Territories in the 10th–8th Centuries B.C.E. Bibliotheca Orientalis 77 (5/6): 616–623.
- 2020. Review of Josette Elayi, Sennacherib, King of Assyria. Review of Biblical Literature.
- 2019. Review of Aaron Tugendhaft, Baal and the Politics of Poetry. Bibliotheca Orientalis 76 (3/4): 304–310.
- 2019. The varying kinds of “state correspondence” in the ancient world (15th c. B.C.–6th c. A.D.). Review of Karen Radner (ed.), State Correspondence in the Ancient World, with David Ratzan. Journal of Roman Archaeology 32: 534–538. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759419000308
