Continuing Lectures on the Ancient Persian Empire hosted by the Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures (NESA). View the NESA event page here.
Wouter F.M. Henkelman defended his PhD dissertation on Elamite gods in the Persepolis Fortification archive in 2006 at Leiden University. He subsequently held postdoctoral positions at Paris, Amsterdam and Berlin, before being appointed associate professor for "mondes élamites et achéménides” at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris). He is co-director of the Persepolis Fortification Archive Project at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Civilizations (Chicago) and editor of the Elamite tablets in this archive; he also directs the Centre Sarikhani d’Études Élamites in Paris. He regularly teaches abroad, notably in Tehran and at various German universities. His research focus ranges from Middle Elamite royal inscriptions to the Persepolis archives and from Egypt under Cambyses to Bactria under the last Achaemenids.
