Sarah Melville
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Assistant Professor of History
278 Bertrand H. Snell Hall
E-mail: melville@clarkson.edu
Website
Phone: 315-268-3966
Education
A.B., Smith College
M.A., University of Missouri at Columbia
M. Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Courses Taught
Scholarly Interests
My current research in ancient Near Eastern history focuses on the Neo-Assyrian period (c. 1000-610 BC), specifically Neo-Assyrian military culture, ideology and mathematical symmetry in art, and the social role of women.
Publications
"Neo-Assyrian Royal Women and Male Identity: Status as a Social Tool," Journal of the American Oriental Society 124 (2004): 37-57.
Review of Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, part II: Assurbanipal through Sin-sharru-ishkum. By Raija Mattild (SAA 14) in JAOS 124/2 (2004): 14-15.
Presentations
Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society (April), a paper interpreting the meaning of the Sumerian logogram MÍ.É.GAL in a New-Assyrian context.
Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (July), the paper,"The Purposeful Ambiguity in the Expression of Status within the Neo-Assyrian Royal Family," in which she offered a solution to the persistent problem of how the status of members of the royal family was expressed.
278 Bertrand H. Snell Hall
E-mail: melville@clarkson.edu
Website
Phone: 315-268-3966
Education
A.B., Smith College
M.A., University of Missouri at Columbia
M. Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Courses Taught
- Ancient Medicine and Magic
- Science, Technology and Society in the Ancient World
- Warfare in the Ancient World
- War and Society
Scholarly Interests
My current research in ancient Near Eastern history focuses on the Neo-Assyrian period (c. 1000-610 BC), specifically Neo-Assyrian military culture, ideology and mathematical symmetry in art, and the social role of women.
Publications
"Neo-Assyrian Royal Women and Male Identity: Status as a Social Tool," Journal of the American Oriental Society 124 (2004): 37-57.
Review of Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, part II: Assurbanipal through Sin-sharru-ishkum. By Raija Mattild (SAA 14) in JAOS 124/2 (2004): 14-15.
Presentations
Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society (April), a paper interpreting the meaning of the Sumerian logogram MÍ.É.GAL in a New-Assyrian context.
Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (July), the paper,"The Purposeful Ambiguity in the Expression of Status within the Neo-Assyrian Royal Family," in which she offered a solution to the persistent problem of how the status of members of the royal family was expressed.
