Dr. Yasmina Wicks

Biography

Yasmina Wicks is a postdoctoral research fellow at Macquarie University's Department of Ancient History, specializing in the ancient Near Eastern civilization of Elam (ca. 4200-525 BCE), primarily located in present-day southwest Iran. She obtained her PhD from the University of Sydney in September 2017, focusing on mortuary practices across five centuries of Elam leading into the Persian Empire, culminating in her published monograph in 2019 titled 'Profiling Death: Neo-Elamite Mortuary Practices, Afterlife Beliefs, and Entanglements with Ancestors.' Her prior work includes a 2015 monograph on Bronze ‘Bathtub’ Coffins within the context of 8th-6th Century B.C.E. Babylonian, Assyrian, and Elamite funerary practices, which was based on her awarded honours thesis at the University of Sydney. Yasmina has collaborated with notable scholars such as Prof Javier Álvarez-Mon and Prof Gian Pietro Basello and was a co-editor for the 2018 publication 'The Elamite World' within the Routledge Worlds Series. Her research endeavors have benefitted from extensive collaboration with European colleagues, including placements such as an Endeavour Research Fellowship and positions at the Université catholique de Louvain and Sapienza Università di Roma. She has also contributed significantly to academic discourse through various articles and book chapters in her areas of expertise.

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