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
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
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