Research
Dr. Hawthorn is a cultural historian with a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Yale University. Her research interests include:
- The cultural history of the senses
- Religious history
- Mesopotamian literature
- Literary criticism and New Historicism
- Literary representations of religious ideology
- Sumerian and Akkadian grammar and lexicology
- Middle Eastern dance
- Lexicology and movement nomenclature
- Sensory aspects of dance
- Corpus-based lexical analysis
- Digital methodologies
- Public humanities and community engagement
Now Available
Now Available
Distant Impressions: The Senses in the Ancient Near East
Edited by Ainsley Hawthorn and Anne-Caroline Rendu Loisel
$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
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Current Research Projects
Current Research Projects
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