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Shiyanthi Thavapalan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where she is affiliated with the Amsterdam Centre for Ancient Studies and Archaeology. Her research focuses on the Akkadian technical recipes and the historical perception of color in ancient Mesopotamia, incorporating methodologies from cultural anthropology, philology, and material culture studies. Thavapalan obtained her Master's degree in 2011 and her PhD in 2017 from Yale University, where her dissertation on the meaning of color in ancient Mesopotamia received the William J. Horwitz Dissertation Prize from the International Association for Assyriology. She has held fellowships at Baden-Württemberg Stiftung, University of Tübingen, and Brown University, and is currently engaged in an NWO Vidi project that investigates the relationships between human beings, the material world, and technology in Mesopotamia. Thavapalan serves on the editorial boards of 'Colour Turn' and 'Bibliotheca Orientalis' and is actively involved in the International Association for Assyriology, contributing significantly to her field through various academic and research activities.
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam • Amsterdam, Netherlands
Teach and conduct research in Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, focusing on Mesopotamian studies.
Administered under the Department of Clinical Psychology for Master's in Clinical and Developmental Psychopathology.