Benjamin Studevent-Hickman

Short Biography

Benjamin Studevent-Hickman is an ancient historian specializing in the study of ancient Mesopotamia, with a particular interest in the social and economic history of Babylonia in the third millennium bce He received his PhD from Harvard University in March 2006; since then, he has worked as a Research Associate at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago and, presently, is a Lecturer on Assyriology at Harvard. His publications include The Ninety-Degree Rotation of the Cuneiform Script and Prisma; among his forthcoming publications are The Workforce at Ur III Umma and the Nature of the Half-time Arrangement and a monograph entitled Lagash and the Religious Economy of Early Babylonia.