They are happy to share knowledge and awareness through interviews and other media exposure.
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Name and position |
Contact information | Languages | Areas of expertise |
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Saana Svärd Director of ANEE, leader of Team 1 |
+358 2941 22683 |
Finnish, English | Akkadian, Sumerian, History of Mesopotamia, Gender studies, Digital Humanities approaches, Study of Emotions |
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Krister Lindén Vice-leader of Team 1 |
+358 2941 29303 |
Swedish, Finnish, English | Digital Humanities approaches, Language Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics |
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Jason Silverman Leader of Team 2 |
+358 2941 23060 |
English | Orality and Literacy theory, Apocalyptic and prophetic literature of Hebrew Bible, Persian Empire and religion, Migration theory of Ancient Near East |
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Melanie Wasmuth Vice-leader of Team 2 |
English, German | Egyptology, Ancient Near Eastern studies, Ancient Cross-Area Studies, Cultural encounters, Cross-regional identity display, Cross-regional mobility and migration | |
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Antti Lahelma Vice director of ANEE, Leader of Team 3 |
+358 2941 23243 |
Finnish, English | Archaeology of religion, Iconography, Archaeoacoustics, Conflict archaeology, Cosmology, Petra, Early Byzantine period |
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Marta Lorenzon Vice-leader of Team 3 |
+358 2941 23076 |
English, Italian, Spanish, French | Near Eastern architecture, Anthropology of architecture, Urban planning, Earthern architecture, Postcolonial theories, Community archeology, Architectural preservation |
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Alex Aissaoui Doctoral student |
+358 50 320 7720 |
Finnish, French, English |
Historical analysis in Great Power dynamics, Balance of power theory, International anarchy, State-formation process, Vassal-overlord relationships |
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Tero Alstola Postdoctoral researcher |
+358 2941 23122 |
Finnish, English | Ancient Near East, Babylonia, Assyria, Mesopotamia, Judah, Israel, Migration, Social history, Bible, Old Testament, Digital humanities |
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Kaisa Autere Doctoral student |
+358 2941 23423 |
Finnish, English | Egyptology, Ancient Egyptian, Archaeological methods and fieldwork |
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Rotem Avneri Meir Doctoral student |
English, Hebrew | Second temple Judaism, Dead Sea scrolls, classics, Hellenistic period, Seleucid, Ptolemaic kingdoms, Hebrew Bible, Kingship, Historiography, Memory studies | |
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Ellie Bennett Postdoctoral researcher |
English | Neo-Assyrian history, Pre-Islamic Arabian history, Gender Studies, Digital Humanities (Gephi, Python, LateX), royal ideology, Akkadian, Titles and Epithets | |
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Rick Bonnie University lecturer in museology |
+358 2941 22507 |
English, Dutch | Archaeology of the Greco-Roman Middle East, Illicit antiquities trafficking, Provenance research, Jewish material culture, Community archaeology, Archaeology of ritual and religion |
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Elisabeth Holmqvist-Sipilä Docent |
+358 2941 22198 |
Finnish, English | Archaeology, Archaeological materials science |
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Heidi Jauhiainen Postdoctoral researcher |
Finnish, English | Digital Humanities approaches, Gephi, FastText, Network Analysis, Databases, Ancient Egypt, Deir el-Medina, Feasts, Religion | |
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Jutta Jokiranta Professor in Hebrew Bible and Cogante Studies |
+358 2941 24348 |
Finnish, English | Dead Sea Scrolls, Qumran texts, Second Temple Judaism, Rituals and ritual studies, Textual materiality, Cognitive study of religion, Social identity, Ethnicity, Sectarianism |
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Uine Kailamäki Doctoral student |
Finnish, English | Archaeological science, Geoarchaeology, Uranium series dating, Rock art, Earthen architecture | |
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Saimi Kautonen Doctoral student |
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Finnish, English | History and Archaeology, Biblical Studies, Roman Palestine, Ancient water architecture |
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Raz Kletter Docent in Near Eastern Archaeology |
English, Hebrew | Archaeology, History of archaeology, Archaeological theory, Politics of archaeology, Israel/Palestine, Economy (pre-monetary), Cultural heritage, Cult and figurines, Archaeological legislation | |
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Heidi Kovanen Doctoral student |
Finnish, English | Archaeology, Death and burial, Identities, Gender, Iron Age, Levant | |
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Päivi Miettunen Postdoctoral researcher |
Finnish, English | Arabic (Levantine dialects), Middle Eastern tribal identities, Modern society (Jordan, Lebanon, Syria), Anthropological field research methods | |
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Nina Nikki Postdoctoral researcher |
Finnish, English | Early Christianity, Paul, Social identity approach | |
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Aleksi Sahala Doctoral student |
Finnish, English |
Computational assyriology, Language technology, Digital language resources, Computational analysis of cuneiform texts, Sumerian language |
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Stefan Smith Postdoctoral researcher |
English, German, French | Landscape archaeology, GIS, Prehistoric Ancient Near East, Nomadism and sedentism, Human adaptation to climatic variation | |
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Adrianne Spunaugle Postdoctoral researcher |
English |
Social history of deportation, First millennium BCE, Mesopotamia, Israel, Assyriology, Hebrew Bible |
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Lena Tambs Postdoctoral researcher |
English | History and archaeology, Egyptology, Ptolemaic Egypt, Classics, Social history, Social network analysis | |
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Joanna Töyräänvuori Postdoctoral researcher |
Finnish, English | Late Bronze Age, Flood story, Phoenician, Ugaritic, Hittite, Middle/Late Egyptian, Political mythology, Sea gods, Arameans, Hebrew Bible | |
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Jonathan Valk Postdoctoral researcher |
English, Dutch, Hebrew | Ancient world, Assyria, Social history, Akkadian, Aramaization, Collective identity | |
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Evelien Vanderstraeten Doctoral student |
+358 2941 23574 |
English, Dutch | Ancient Near East, Babylonia, Women, Marriage |