Network Members: Agnès García Ventura

 

Agnès García Ventura

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 Near Eastern studies in Spain, ancient musical performance (in both Mesopotamia and the Phoenician and Punic contexts), and the organization of work in Mesopotamia.

With regard to the latter, the organization of work, she is particularly interested on the analysis of job categories and working conditions, from a gender perspective, as portrayed in the administrative texts from the Mesopotamia of the end of the third millennium BCE. She is the editor of several volumes, including Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East (with Saana Svärd, Eisenbrauns and Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018) and What's in a Name? Work Force and Job Categories in the Ancient Near East (Ugarit-Verlag, 2018).