Saana SvärdSaana Svärd holds the title of a docent of Assyriology in the University of Helsinki. She has written extensively on the topic of women and gender in the first millennium BCE Mesopotamia, including a monograph: Women and Power in Neo-Assyrian Palaces(2015). In addition to gender, her research interests relate lexical semantics and continuity/change from first millennium Mesopotamia to later historical periods. Currently, she is working as the principal investigator of the three-year project 'Construction of Gender in Mesopotamia from 934 to 330 BCE' (funded by the Academy of Finland). She is also the Chair of the Finnish Oriental Society. Read More Read Less