Agnès Garcia-Ventura - 2023-2024 IGSR Affiliated Scholar
Agnès Garcia-Ventura received her Ph.D. in History by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona in 2012. Since then she has been awarded several postdoc fellowships, in competitive calls, to work at the University of Heidelberg (Germany), at the University of Rome, ‘La Sapienza’ (Italy), and at the University of Barcelona (Spain). Currently she is “Ramón y Cajal” fellow at the University Autònoma of Barcelona (Spain). Her main areas of interest are gender studies (especially their application to Assyriology), historiography of ancient Western Asian studies in Spain, the organization of work in Mesopotamia, and ancient musical performance (in both Mesopotamia and the Phoenician and Punic contexts). She is the coeditor of several volumes linked to gender studies, including Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East (Eisenbrauns and Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018) and The Mummy Under the Bed: Essays on Gender and Methodology in the Ancient Near East (Zaphon, 2022).