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CURRICULUM VITAE
MATTHEW T. RUTZ
Assistant Professor
Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies
Brown University
ADDRESS
Office:
Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies
Box 1899, 2 Prospect Street
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912-1899
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: 401-863-6312 (office); Fax: 401-863-1216 (department)
EDUCATION
2008
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Cuneiform Studies (Assyriology), major area; Biblical Studies (Hebrew Bible), minor area
Dissertation: Scholars, Texts, and Contexts: An Archaeological and Textual Study of the Diviners’
Archive from Late Bronze Age Emar, Syria
Committee: Barry Eichler (supervisor), Richard Zettler, Steve Tinney
1998
B.A. summa cum laude University of Oregon, Religious Studies
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2009–
Assistant Professor of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies,
Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies, Brown University
Affiliated Faculty, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Affiliated Faculty, Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean, Department of Religious Studies
2009
Adjunct Professor of Anthropology
Department of Culture & Communication, Drexel University
2008-2009
Postdoctoral Research Specialist
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project, PI: Grant Frame
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania
oracc.org/rinap/
2007-2008
Instructor in Akkadian
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania
PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS
Books/Monographs
2011
The Royal Inscriptions of Esarhaddon, King of Assyria (680–669 BCE). By Erle Leichty, with a
contribution by Grant Frame. Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period 4. Winona
Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns. [co-assistant editor with J. Novotny and A. E. Barron]
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Brown University
2006
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If a Man Builds a Joyful House: Assyriological Studies in Honor of Erle Verdun Leichty. Cuneiform
Monographs 31. Leiden: Brill. [co-edited with A. K. Guinan, M. deJ. Ellis, A. J. Ferrara,
S. Freedman, L. Sassmannshausen, S. Tinney, and M. W. Waters]
Chapters in Books
2011
“The Alphabet” (3:189-91); “Cuneiform Scripts; The Origins of Cuneiform; Enmerkar and
the Origins of Writing; The Birth of Royal Inscriptions and Sumerian Literature; Cuneiform
in the Second Millennium; The Zenith and Nadir of Cuneiform” (3:195-201); “Kassite
Babylonia; Dur-Kurigalzu; Kassite Origins; The Kassite Language; Kassite Appropriations of
Babylonian Learning; Enuma Elish” (3:348-355); “Gilgamesh” (4:659-61); “Hepatoscopy;
Liver Models; Mesopotamian Omen Science” (4:639-44); “Celestial Divination – Omens
from the Sun, Moon, and Stars” (4:649-50); “Mesopotamian Medicine; Coping with Illness
in Mesopotamia – Diagnosis, Prognosis, Incantation, Prescription” (4:734-37) in Era 2: Early
Civilizations, 4000–1000 B.C. ABC-CLIO Encyclopedia of World History, Volumes 3 and 4.
Edited by K. M. McGeough. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.
2007
“History of Cuneiform Writing,” pp. 55-59 [with J. L. Peterson]; 39: “Old Babylonian Legal
Contract from Ur,” pp. 118-119; 44: “Hinke Kudurru,” pp. 126-127; 45: “Kassite Map of
Watercourses,” pp. 128-129; 46: “Kassite Seal,” pp. 130-131 [with R. L. Zettler]; 48:
“Foundation Inscription of Nabopolassar,” pp. 136-137 in Land Between the Two Rivers: From
Villages to Empires, edited by R. L. Zettler. Exhibition catalogue for “The Great
Civilizations,” Beijing World Art Museum, 28 September 2006–28 September 2008.
[translated into Mandarin]
Refereed Journal Articles
2006-2007
“Archaizing Scripts in Emar and the Diviner Šaggar-abu.” Ugarit-Forschungen 38: 593-616.
2006
“Textual Transmission between Babylonia and Susa: A New Solar Omen Compendium.”
Journal of Cuneiform Studies 58: 63-96.
in press
“Threads for Esagil-kin-apli: The Medical Diagnostic-Prognostic Series in Middle
Babylonian Nippur.” Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie 101.
Non-Refereed Journal Articles
2008
“Emar Syllabary A.” Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2008(2) No. 38, pp. 48-49.
2007
“Two Lexical Fragments from Ugarit.” Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2007(4)
No. 75, pp. 92-93.
2006
“More Diri from Emar.” Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2006(4) No. 85, pp. 85-88.
Book Reviews
2006
Review of Daniel E. Fleming, Democracy’s Ancient Ancestors: Mari and Early Collective Governance,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Near Eastern Archaeology 69/2: 100-101.
2004
Review of Magnus Widell, The Administrative and Economic Ur III Texts from the City of Ur,
Picstaway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2003. Religious Studies Review 30/2,3: 180.
Invited Lectures
2011
“The Archaeology of Extispicy: Modeling Divination in Bronze Age Mesopotamia,”
The Memory and Identity Working Group of the Department of Near Eastern Studies,
University of California, Berkeley, November 22
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2011
“The Archaeology of Liver Divination in Ancient Mesopotamia,” Culture and Religion of
the Ancient Mediterranean, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, April 12
2009
“Ancient Libraries Before Alexandria: Some Views from Western Asia,” invited lecture for
The Friends of Egyptology and Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian
Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, December 9
2009
“Libraries in Syria and the Levant,” invited lecture for the Symposium: “The Earliest
Libraries: Library Tradition in the Ancient Near East from the Dawn of History until the
Roman Era, c. 3200 BC – 200 AD,” Centre for Canon and Identity Formation,
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 21
2009
“Reading the Signs, Reading the Archive: Diviners and their Contexts in the Ancient Near
East,” Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, March 23
2009
“Deciphering Cuneiform (Con)texts: Perspectives on the Diviners’ Archive from Late
Bronze Age Emar, Syria,” Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies,
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, February 25
2007
“Cuneiform Archives in Context and the Diviners of Late Bronze Age Emar,” invited
lecture/invited organizer, Louis J. Kolb Foundation Spring 2007 Colloquium: “Reading
Social Structures: House, Palace, Shrine, Temple” (R. Holod, History of Art, discussant),
University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 8
2006
“Art and Culture of Ancient Iraq,” invited lecture, Whose Art is it Anyway?, CookWissahickon School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 27
Papers Read
2011
Mesopotamian Civilizations: Examining Social Life through Texts and Material Culture,
New Member-Organized Session, co-chair (with M. Feldman), American Schools of Oriental
Research Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, November 16-19 [approved]
2011
“Tradition, Contact, Innovation: Communities of Language, Text, and Script in Late Bronze
Age Syria,” Philology (H. Niehr, chair), 57e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale:
“Tradition and Innovation in the Ancient Near East,” Sapienza – Università di Roma,
Rome, Italy, July 6
2011
“By the Numbers: Tablets, Tallies, and Babylonian-Assyrian Scholastic Texts,” Ancient Near
East VI: Literature (P. Machinist, chair), 221st Meeting of the American Oriental Society,
Chicago, Illinois, March 13
2010
“Using the Best Models: Situating Mesopotamian Divination in the Archaeological Record,”
Text and Archaeology 2: Interpreting Text (J. Nowlin, chair), Archaeologies of Text:
Archaeology, Technology, and Ethics, a symposium co-organized with M. M. Kersel (DePaul
University), hosted at Brown University, December 4
2010
Archaeologies of Text: Archaeology, Technology, and Ethics. A symposium co-organized with M. M.
Kersel, hosted at Brown University. Sponsored by The Colver Lectureship Fund,
Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies, Joukowsky Institute for
Archaeology and the Ancient World, and Program in Early Cultures, December 3-5
proteus.brown.edu/archaeologiesoftext/
2010
“A Thread for Esagil-kin-apli: On the Early History of the Medical Diagnostic Handbook,”
Session I (W. G. E. Watson, chair), 56e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale: “Time and
History in the Ancient Near East,” Institut d’Estudis del Pròxim Orient Antic / Instituto de
Estudios del Próximo Oriente Antiguo, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, July 28
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2010
“On Medical Training in Kassite Nippur,” Ancient Near East IV: Mesopotamian Literature
(P. Machinist, chair), 220th Meeting of the American Oriental Society, St. Louis, Missouri,
March 13
2009
“A Little More than Kin: Emar’s Diviners and their Tablet Collection,” Session II: Familles
de scribes (Y. Cohen, chair), 55e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale: “La famille dans le
Proche-Orient ancien: réalités, symbolismes et images,” Collège de France, Paris, France,
July 6
2008
“Kassite Cartography in the Context of Mesopotamian Mapmaking,” Archaeology of
Mesopotamia Section (C. Gane, chair), American Schools of Oriental Research Annual
Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, November 20
2007
“Paleography, Gods, and Diviners in Emar,” Ancient Near East VI: History, Culture &
Religion (G. Frame, chair), 217th Meeting of the American Oriental Society, San Antonio,
Texas, March 18
2006
“Babylonian Solar Omens from Susa,” Ancient Near Eastern History, Literature, and
Religion Section, in memoriam Erica Reiner (G. M. Beckman, chair), 216th Meeting of the
American Oriental Society, Seattle, Washington, March 20
2004
“The Stele as a Social Object in Late Bronze Age Syria,” Ugaritic Studies and Northwest
Semitic Epigraphy Section (S. Wiggins, chair), Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting,
San Antonio, Texas, November 21
2004
“Mesopotamian Cultic Specialists: Archaeology of Elite Domestic Archives,” Archaeology of
Mesopotamia Section (R. L. Zettler, chair), American Schools of Oriental Research Annual
Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, November 18
2004
“Magic, Myth, and Mysticism,” Section Chair and Moderator, Graduate Humanities Forum
Annual Graduate Student Conference, March 26-27
2004
“The sikkanu-Stele in Late Bronze Age Syria,” Akkadian Language, Literature, and History
Section (M. W. Waters, chair), 214th Meeting of the American Oriental Society, San Diego,
California, March 14
2003
“The Stele in and out of Cultic Contexts in Bronze Age Syria: Signs of Authority at Emar
and Ekalte,” Archaeology of Syria Section (M. W. Chavalas, chair), American Schools of
Oriental Research Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, November 22
Work in Review
in review
“Mesopotamian Scholarship in Hattuša and the Collective Tablet KUB 4.53.”
Journal of the American Oriental Society.
in review
Bodies of Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Diviners of Late Bronze Age Emar and their Tablet
Collection. Studies in Ancient Magic and Divination. Leiden: Brill. [under contract]
Work in Progress
in preparation
“Ancient Libraries in Syria and the Levant,” in Libraries before Alexandria: Library Tradition in
the Ancient Near East from the Dawn of History until the Roman Era, c. 3200 BC – 200 AD,
K. Ryholt and G. Barjamovic (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [under contract]
in preparation
“The Archaeology of Mesopotamian Extispicy: Modeling Divination in the Old Babylonian
Period,” in Archaeologies of Text: Archaeology, Technology, and Ethics, M. T Rutz and
M. M. Kersel (eds.). Joukowsky Institute Publications Vol. 4. Providence: Joukowsky
Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World.
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Brown University
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in preparation
Archaeologies of Text: Archaeology, Technology, and Ethics. Joukowsky Institute Publications Vol. 4.
Providence: Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World.
[co-edited with M. M. Kersel]
in preparation
Review of A Woman of Valor: Jerusalem Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Joan Goodnick
Westenholz, edited by Wayne Horowitz, Uri Gabbay, and Flip Vukosavovic, Biblioteca del
Próximo Oriente Antiguo 8, Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2010.
Journal of the American Oriental Society.
RESEARCH GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2009-2011
Humanities Research Fund, Brown University
2008
School of Arts and Sciences Graduate Division Travel Grant, University of Pennsylvania, to
attend the American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts,
November 19-22
2007
School of Arts and Sciences Graduate Division Travel Grant, University of Pennsylvania, to
attend the 217th Meeting of the American Oriental Society, San Antonio, Texas, March 16-19
2007
Graduate Student Award for Travel to attend the 217th Meeting of the American Oriental
Society, San Antonio, Texas, March 16-19
2006
School of Arts and Sciences Graduate Division Travel Grant, University of Pennsylvania, to
attend the 216th Meeting of the American Oriental Society, Seattle, Washington,
March 17-20
2006
Graduate Student Award for Travel to attend the 216th Meeting of the American Oriental
Society, Seattle, Washington, March 17-20
2004-2006
Louis J. Kolb Foundation Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology
and Anthropology
2004
Dorot Foundation Travel Grant, to attend the American Schools of Oriental Research
Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, November 17-20
2004
Graduate Student Associations Council Travel Grant, University of Pennsylvania, to attend
the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, November 20-23
2004
School of Arts and Sciences Graduate Division Travel Grant, University of Pennsylvania, to
attend the 214th Meeting of the American Oriental Society, San Diego, California,
March 12-14
2004
Graduate Student Award for Travel to attend the 214th Meeting of the American Oriental
Society, San Diego, California, March 12-14
2002-2004
Abraham M. Ellis Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania
2003
Dorot Foundation Travel Grant, to attend the American Schools of Oriental Research
Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, November 19-22
2003
Graduate Student Associations Council Travel Grant, University of Pennsylvania, to attend
the American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia,
November 19-22
2003
Brenner Award, University of Pennsylvania, to attend the 49e Rencontre Assyriologique
Internationale, British Museum, London, July 7-11
1998-2002
William Penn Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania
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SERVICE
Brown University
2011–
Team Enhanced Advising and Mentoring
2010–
Undergraduate Concentration Advisor, Ancient Western Asian Studies Track
2009–
Curriculum development, Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies
American Schools of Oriental Research
2010–
Committee on Mesopotamian Civilization (Baghdad Committee) [elected November 2009]
University of Pennsylvania
2004
Grant Advisor, Navigating the Grant Program
2004
Workshop Leader, Navigating the Dissertation: Navigating the Proposal
2004
Section Moderator, Undergraduate Humanities Forum Annual Symposium
2004
Archaeology and the Bible, Guest Lecturer
2003-2004
Conference Committee, Graduate Humanities Forum
2003-2004
Graduate-Undergraduate Humanities Forum Mentorship Program, Mentor
2003-2004
Chair, Judah Goldin Memorial Graduate Student Seminar in Ancient Near Eastern and
Biblical Studies
ACADEMIC HONORS
2008–
Fellow, Louis J. Kolb Society, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
2004-2008
Junior Fellow, Louis J. Kolb Society, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology
and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
1998
B.A. summa cum laude, University of Oregon
1998
Elected to Phi Beta Kappa Society, University of Oregon
1994-1998
Dean’s List, University of Oregon
1993-1994
Dean’s List, University of Chicago
TEACHING
Courses Taught
2009–
Brown University
AWAS 0200 Introduction to Akkadian
AWAS 0210 Intermediate Akkadian
AWAS 1100 Imagining the Gods: Myths and Myth-making in Ancient Mesopotamia
AWAS 1500 Ancient Babylonian Magic and Medicine
AWAS 1750 Divination in Ancient Mesopotamia
AWAS 2310B Assyriology I
AWAS 2600 Topics in Cuneiform Studies
AWAS 2800 Archaeologies of Text (new course, pending approval)
Matthew T. Rutz
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Brown University
2009
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Drexel University
ANTH 120 Near Eastern Archaeology
2000-2008
University of Pennsylvania
ANEL 740 Akkadian Religious and Scientific Texts
ANEL 640 First Year Akkadian (I)
ANEL 641 First Year Akkadian (II)
ANEL 640-641 First Year Akkadian (I-II) (Substitute Instructor)
PSCI 253 International Politics of the Middle East (Graduate TA)
JWST 100 Catastrophe and Continuity (Graduate TA, Writing Program)
NELC 046 Myths and Religions of the Ancient World (Graduate TA)
NELC 062 Land of the Pharaohs (Graduate TA)
NELC 150 Introduction to the Bible (Graduate TA)
Brown University – Graduate Advising
Andrea Allgood, Religious Studies, Ph.D. preliminary examiner
Nicholas P. Carter, Anthropology, Ph.D. preliminary examiner
Müge Durusu, Archaeology and the Ancient World, Ph.D. matriculation examiner
Katherine Harrington, Archaeology and Ancient World, Ph.D. field examiner
M. Willis Monroe, Ancient Western Asian Studies, Ph.D. advisor
Brian Rainey, Religious Studies, Ph.D. preliminary examiner; dissertation committee
(2nd reader)
Timothy Sandiford, Archaeology and the Ancient World, Ph.D. field examiner
Debra Scoggins-Ballentine, Religious Studies, Ph.D. dissertation committee (2nd reader),
defended June 13, 2011
Jennifer Singletary, Religious Studies, Ph.D. preliminary examiner; dissertation committee
(2nd reader)
Zackary Wainer, Ancient Western Asian Studies, Ph.D. advisor
Brown University – Undergraduate Advising
2010-2011
2011-2012
Five first-year advisees
Five first-year advisees; five sophomore advisees
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Ancient: Akkadian, Sumerian, Ugaritic, Hebrew, Northwest Semitic, Aramaic, Greek (elementary)
Modern: German, French, Japanese (elementary)
ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD PROJECTS
2008–
Tell es-Sweyhat Archaeological Project, Syria, Epigrapher (as yet no field seasons)
Director: Michael Danti, Boston University / University of Pennsylvania
www.jezireh.org/sweyhat_home.html
2006–
Tell Balabra Archaeological Project, Syria, Epigrapher (permit pending)
Director: Michael Danti, Boston University / University of Pennsylvania
www.jezireh.org/balabra_index.html
2000
Khirbet al-Mudayna al-Aliya, Jordan, University of Pennsylvania Excavations,
Excavation Unit Supervisor
Director: Bruce Routledge, University of Liverpool
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Brown University
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Schools of Oriental Research
American Oriental Society
British Institute for the Study of Iraq (Gertrude Bell Memorial) [British School of Archaeology in Iraq]
International Association for Assyriology
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