Betreff: [agade] NOTICES: Appointments at Leiden University
first posted April 7, 2017
The department of Assyriology at Leiden University, Institute of Area Studies, announces the following new appointments:
- From 1 July, Cale Johnson will join us as a University Lecturer. He specializes in the intellectual history of the ancient Near East, including Classical Sumerian literature and its Early Dynastic antecedents, the history of Babylonian medicine and the socio-economic history of feasting and patronage in centralized institutions. He will be teaching courses in Akkadian literature as well as historical surveys of Babylonian medicine and the economics of institutional life in Mesopotamia, in our BA program in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures and in our MA program in Classics and Ancient Civilizations.
- Caroline Waerzeggers has been appointed full professor and chair of Assyriology. She is a specialist in the history of the ancient Near East in the first millennium BCE. Currently she manages an ERC Consolidator Grant project on the Persian Empire. Her teaching will include modules on the Akkadian language and cuneiform script in the BA program in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures, as well as research seminars in the MA program in Classics and Ancient Civilizations.
They join Jan Gerrit Dercksen (University Lecturer in Assyriology), Bram Jagersma (University Lecturer in Sumerian), Willemijn Waal (University Lecturer in Hittitology), and Alwin Kloekhorst (University Lecturer in Anatolian Linguistics, at LUCL).
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