Teaching Staff
Augusta McMahon
University Senior Lecturer in Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and History in the Department of Archaeology, Graduate Officer and Assyriology Course Coordinator in the Department of Archaeology, Fellow of Newnham College
Nicholas Postgate
Professor of Assyriology in the Department of Archaeology, Fellow of Trinity College
Nicole Brisch
Lecturer in Assyriology in the Department of Archaeology
Eleanor Robson
Reader in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Researchers
Dr Marie-Françoise Besnier: Research Fellow, The Geography of Knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia
Dr Carlo Colantoni: Research Associate, Kilise Tepe Archaeological Project
Dr Harriet Crawford: Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Dr Graham Cunningham: Senior Research Fellow, The Geography of Knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia
James Kinnier Wilson: Formerly Eric Yarrow Lecturer in Assyriology
Dr John MacGinnis: Co-Director of the Ziyaret Tepe excavations in southeast Turkey.
Dr Joan Oates: Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Director of the Tell Brak Excavation in Syria
Dr Timothy Potts: Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Dr Greta Van Buylaere: Research Fellow, The Geography of Knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia
PhD Students
Yağmur Sarıoğlu: Anatolian domestic religion
Adam Stone: Ur III administration
Johanna Tudeau: Mesopotamian building practices
Past Mesopotamian scholars at Cambridge
Margaret Munn-Rankin: Lecturer in Mesopotamian History and Archaeology, 1949-1981.
Prof. David Oates: Director, Tell Brak Excavations, 1976-2004.