Project Description

Brain Drain: Foreign Experts in the Heartland of Assyria

Presented by Karen Radner, PhD

Alexander von Humboldt Professor of the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and Honorary Professor of Ancient Near Eastern History, University College London

One of the world’s leading experts on the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Karen has published extensively on its political, organizational, social, and cultural history. She has also worked as an archaeologist and epigrapher in projects from Iraq, Syria, and Turkey to Greece and Austria.