Laura Steele
B.A. (Cornell University, 1996), M.A. (University of California, Berkeley, 2000)
Fields of study:Ancient architecture, Anatolian archaeology, and connections between Greece and Mesopotamia.
Publications:
"Mesopotamian elements in the proem of Parmenides? Correspondences between the sun-gods Helios and Shamash," Classical Quarterly 52 (2002)
"Urartu and the Medikos Logos of Herodotus," American Journal of Ancient History 3.1 (2004)
"The Architecture of Çatalhöyük and Pueblo Ethnoarchaeology," presented to the conference entitled Building Communities in 2001, to appear in the series British School at Athens Studies in 2005.
Book Reviews:
N.S. Rabinowitz and L. Auanger, eds., Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World, in NIN: Journal of Gender Studies in Antiquity 3 (2002)
D. Bolger and N. Serwint, eds.,Engendering Aphrodite: Women and Society in Ancient Cyprus, in NIN: Journal of Gender Studies in Antiquity 6 (2005).
Dissertation:
Tentatively titled "'Nobody Wants to Take Care of Me!': An Historical, Theoretical, and Comparative Study of Slave Women in Ancient Mesopotamia."