An Afternoon with Andrew Pottorf

Two lectures - more detail to follow

1. “Land and Liberty in Southern Babylonia during the Third Millennium BCE”

2. The Social Stratification of Ur III Umma”

Andrew is a Teaching Associate in the Department of Archaeology and a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge.  He is an Assyriologist with a passion for the languages and writing systems of the ancient Near East, which he developed during his prior degrees in Biblical Studies. He completed his PhD in Assyriology at Harvard University with a dissertation on the social stratification of the Ur III period. His ongoing research is focused on the socioeconomic history of the Ur III period and its broader historical context. Prior to his work at the University of Cambridge, he taught biblical Hebrew at Boston College and Sumerian at Harvard University.