Saana Svärd (born 1977) is a FinnishAssyriologist, serving since 2018 as Associate Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies in the Faculty of Arts and the University of Helsinki. She is known as an expert on the cultural history of the ancient Near East, most notably the Neo-Assyrian Empire, social and political power relations, and ancient concepts of gender, but also in the field of language technology and digital humanities. Most recently, in 2017, she wrote together with Charles Halton the anthology Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Anthology of the Earliest Female Author (Cambridge University Press).[1]
Since 2018, Svärd is the director of the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires, an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Helsinki that focuses on how changing imperial dynamics through the periods of Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, Persian, Hellenistic, and early Roman/Parthian control impact social group identities and lifeways during the first millennium BCE.[3]
Booksedit
Women and power in Neo-Assyrian palaces. State Archives of Assyria Studies 23. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2015. (ISBN9789521013461)
(with Charles Halton) Women's writing of ancient Mesopotamia: an anthology of the earliest female authors. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. (ISBN9781107052055)
Referencesedit
^Halton, Charles; Svärd, Saana (2018). Women's writing of ancient Mesopotamia: an anthology of the earliest female authors. ISBN9781107052055. OCLC 990618206.
^"Home". Ancient Near Eastern Empires. 29 August 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
January 01, 1970
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