Education
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2006
Alhena Gadotti, Ph.D.
Professor and Assistant Dean of the College of Liberal Arts
Areas of Expertise
Ancient Near East, late 3rd - early 2nd millennium BCE; history of religion, women鈥檚 history, language and literature
Biography
Alhena Gadotti earned her PhD in Near Eastern Studies at the Johns Hopkins University in 2006. Her dissertation, Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Netherworld and the Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle, was published by DeGruyter in 2014. She is currently collaborating with Dr. Alexandra Kleinerman, Cornell University, to complete the edition of about 700 lexical texts to be published in the CUSAS series.
Selected Publications
鈥淣ever Truly Hers: Ere拧kigal鈥檚 Dowry and the Rulership of the Netherworld.鈥�Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religion 20 (2020): 1鈥�16.
鈥淎 New Manuscript of Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Netherworld,鈥� (with Alexandra Kleinerman). In From Mari to Jerusalem: Assyriological and Biblical Studies in Honor of Jack Murad
Sasson, edited by Annalisa Azzoni, Alexandra Kleinerman, Douglas A. Knight, and David I. Owen.
University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns 鈥� Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020, 141鈥�146.
鈥淏etween Tradition and Innovation: Two New Larsa Hymns in a Private Collection, London鈥� (with Alexandra Kleinerman). mu-zu an-za3-拧别3 kur-ur2-拧别3 he2-臐补濒2: Altorientalistische Studien zu Ehren von Konrad Volk, edited by J. Baldwin and J. Matiszak. M眉nster: Zaphon, 2020, 117鈥�130.
鈥淭he Rules of the School鈥� (with Alexandra Kleinerman). Journal of the American Oriental Society137/1 (2017): 89-117.
鈥淢esopotamian Women鈥檚 Cultic Roles in the Late 3rd- Early 2ndMillennia BCE.鈥� In Women in Antiquity: Real Women from Across the Ancient World, ed. by Stephanie Lynn Budin and Jean Macintosh Turfa. Routledge 2016, 65-76.
Teaching
HIST 160: World History before 1300
HIST 202: Cities of the Ancient World
HIST 399: Origins of Writing