Sara Brumfield

415 Portola Plaza
378 Humanities Building
Los Angeles, CA 90025
brumfield@ucla.edu

Research Interests

Dissertation: Mechanisms of Imperial Control under the Kings of Agade

Empire in the ancient world
Third millennium Mesopotamia
Comparative Semitics

Education

Ph.D., Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations, University of California-Los Angeles, 2009-current
C.Phil., Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations, University of California-Los Angeles, 2012
M.A., Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations, University of California-Los Angeles, 2006-2009
B.A., Linguistics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2000-2004

Languages

Primary Languages: Akkadian, Sumerian
Secondary Languages: West Semitic (Biblical Hebrew, Ugaritic and related dialects), Hittite
Reading Knowledge: German, Italian

Awards

Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fund Fellowship, Fall 2010-Spring 2013
Dissertation Year Fellowship, Summer 2012-Spring 2013
Quality of Graduate Education Grant, Summer 2010
Graduate Research Mentorship, Fall 2009-Spring 2010
Graduate Research Mentorship, Summer 2009

Affiliations

American Oriental Society
American Historical Association
Cuneiform Digital Library Iniative