Talah Anderson

My doctoral project examines the state arts of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, which, at its apex in the seventh century BCE, spanned the entirety of the "Ancient Near East”. In particular, I am interested in exploring how older, mostly Babylonian, ideas about kingship transmitted from the late-third millennium BCE informed Neo-Assyrian royal self-representation and, ultimately, furthered the imperial mission.

My research is supervised by Dr Paul Collins and Professor Jacob Dahl and I am a member of Wolfson College at the University of Oxford, where my research is generously funded by an Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC DTP-Baillie Gifford Studentship as well as the Clarendon Fund.

I hold an MPhil in Assyriology from the University of Cambridge and an MA (Hons) degree in Biblical Studies and Medieval History from the University of St Andrews.