Nicole Brisch

Nicole Brisch

MA Freie Universität Berlin, 1996; PhD University of Michigan, 2003

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19952018

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Employment History:

2013-present Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen
2009-2012 University Lecturer, University of Cambridge, UK
2008-2009 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Freie Universität Berlin
2007-2008 Lecturer, University of Michigan
2006-2007 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago
2004-2006 Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University
2003-2004 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan

Short presentation

Nicole Brisch is an Assyriologist and Sumerologist. Her research interests include Mesopotamian literature, the socio-economic history of the Ur III period (ca. 2100-2000 BCE), and Mesopotamian religion. She is the author of Tradition and the Poetics of Innovation: Sumerian Court Literature of the Larsa Dynasty (c. 2003-1763 BCE) (2007) and the editor of Religion and Power: Divine Kingship in the Ancient World and Beyond (2008, 2nd printing 2012). Her current research is concerned with ritual and divinity in early Mesopotamia and economic aspects of religion.

Keywords

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Assyriology
  • Sumerology
  • Mesopotamia
  • Religion
  • Language
  • Literature

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