Anne Löhnert

Anne Löhnert received a Ph.D. in 2006 from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (Germany), where she holds a position as Assistant Professor in Assyriology. Her scientific interests focus on ancient Mesopotamian religion and cult, literature, and state administration. Her dissertation dealt with the handling of the fear of divine loss as reflected by lamentations - literary cultic texts used in ancient Mesopotamia from c. 2000 to 81 BCE. The current Habilitationschrift (2nd Ph.D.) highlights the mechanics of the administration of royal power in the ancient kingdom of Arraphe, a kingdom that flourished in the 15th/14th centuries BCE in the region of modern Kirkuk (Northern Iraq). From 2011 to 2012, Anne was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mahindra Humanities Center, where she organized the "Palace and Temple In the Late Bronze Age of the Ancient Near East" Workshop. In the 2012—2013 academic year, she was Lecturer on Assyriology at Harvard's Department of Near Eastern Language and Civilizations. A list of her publications can be found here: http://lmu-munich.academia.edu/AnneL%C3%B6hnert