Eva von Dassow teaches the history and languages of the ancient Near East at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of State and Society in the Late Bronze Age: Alalaḫ under the Mittani Empire (2008), co-author of Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. III (2000), and editor of The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day (1994; 1998). Subjects of her recent work include the Hurro-Hittite Song of Liberation; written records as artifacts of cultural practice; writing as an interface between reader and language; and citizenship in Late Bronze Age polities. At present she is writing a book on liberty and governance in ancient Near Eastern societies.
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