Heather Baker, University of Toronto

Research

Mesopotamia Babylonia inheritance inequality household family wealth cuneiform tablets

Latest funding

Inheritance and inequality in urban Babylonia
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$50,384
Machine Translation and Automated Analysis of Cuneiform Languages (MTAAC)
SSHRC · 2016 · Principal investigator
$99,980

All 2 grants and awards

Inheritance and inequality in urban Babylonia

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Baker, Heather

Keywords: Mesopotamia; Babylonia; inheritance; inequality; household; family; wealth; cuneiform tablets; Akkadian

$50,384

Machine Translation and Automated Analysis of Cuneiform Languages (MTAAC)

Principal investigatorSSHRC2016Digging into Data Challenge

Principal investigators: Baker, Heather D.

Keywords: Assyriology; computational linguistics; digital humanities; linguistics; history

$99,980

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Mesopotamia Dear Professor Baker, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on mesopotamia connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Inheritance and inequality in urban Babylonia" (2023), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]