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Kathryn Slanski is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Humanities Program at Yale University. She holds a joint appointment across these units and teaches in both undergraduate and interdisciplinary programs, including Yale's Directed Studies Program, where she previously served as course coordinator.
Education:
- BA, Johns Hopkins University, 1987
- AM, Harvard University, 1995
- PhD, Harvard University, 1998
Her research focuses on ancient Mesopotamia, particularly the intersections of textual and visual sources. She specializes in Babylonian entitlement monuments (kudurrus), exploring their form, function, and socio-political significance. Her work delves into text-image relationships, monumentality, sacred and secular authority, and the transmission of literary and religious traditions. She is also deeply interested in cultural connections between the ancient Near East and the Mediterranean world, especially in the reception and reinterpretation of heroic figures and narratives.
The available publication highlights her expertise in legal and monumental inscriptions from ancient Babylonia. Her work combines philology, archaeology, and art history to reconstruct ancient ideologies and institutions.
Scientific Awards and Fellowships:
- Yale Kohut Fellowship
- American Schools of Oriental Research Mesopotamian Fellowship
- Vatat Social Sciences Fellowship
- Tel Aviv University Junior Faculty Research Grant
- Harvard Dissertation Fellowship
- Fulbright Fellowship (Munich)
- Fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center (since 2006)
Kathryn Slanski has been actively involved in advising and organizing academic events, including co-organizing the 2008 conference 'Epic Heroes: Then and Now' at the Whitney Humanities Center. She has taught advanced Babylonian language courses and interdisciplinary seminars on the reception of ancient Near Eastern literature. Her research has received consistent external funding, reflecting its scholarly impact. She also contributed to international academic development by teaching in a USAID-sponsored program for Iraqi scholars in Jordan.
She is currently preparing a second monograph featuring new editions and photographs of kudurru inscriptions from the Yale Babylonian Collection, the British Museum, and the Louvre, including previously unpublished materials.
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