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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] Matthew T. Rutz Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies Brown University 2006 CV 2 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 Matthew T. Rutz Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies Brown University CV 3 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 Matthew T. Rutz Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies Brown University CV 4 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. Matthew T. Rutz Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies Brown University CV 5 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 Matthew T. Rutz Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies Brown University CV 6 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 Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies Brown University 2009 CV 7 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 Matthew T. Rutz Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies 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 CV 8