Ulrike studied Assyriology and Social Anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin in 1997-2004, and at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in 2004-2007. In 2007 she was awarded a PhD in Assyriology at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen for a study about the Mesopotamian concepts of the human person in Akkadian texts of the 2nd and 1st millennium BCE. In 2011, she was awarded a Medical History and Humanities Fellowship by the Wellcome Trust London for a research project on women's diseases in Babylonian medical texts, which brought her to the University College London, where she worked from 2011-2013. Ulrike's research focuses on the Akkadian language as well as the cultural history, anthropology and medicine of Ancient Mesopotamia from an intercultural perspective. Her current research in the BabMed project aims at a historical and comparative approach to Assyrian and Babylonian gynaecology.

Books:
2012 Aspekte des Menschseins im Alten Mesopotamien. Eine Studie zu Person und Identität im 2. und 1. Jt. v. Chr., Cuneiform Monographs 44, Leiden, Boston: Brill.

Edited Books:

2014 N.N. May, U. Steinert (eds.), The Fabric of Cities. Aspects of Urbanism, Urban Topography and Society in Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 68), Leiden, Boston: Brill.

Articles: 

2010 „Der Schlaf in der altmesopotamischen Überlieferung“, in: F. Weiershäuser, D. Shehata, K.V. Zand (Hg.), Von Göttern und Menschen. Beiträge zu Literatur und Geschichte des Alten Orients. Festschrift für Brigitte Groneberg. Cuneiform Monographs 41, Leiden: Brill, 237-285.

2011 “Akkadian Terms for ‘Street’ and the Topography of Mesopotamian Cities”, in: Altorientalische Forschungen 38/2, 309-347.

2012 „‛Zwei Drittel Gott, ein Drittel Mensch’ – Überlegungen zum altmesopotamischen Menschenbild“, in: B. Janowski (ed.), Der ganze Mensch. Zur Anthropologie der Antike und ihrer europäischen Nachgeschichte, Akademie Verlag: Berlin, 59-81.

2012 “K. 263+10934, A Tablet with Recipes Against the Abnormal Flow of a Woman’s Blood”, in: Sudhoffs Archiv. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftsgeschichte 96/1, 64-94. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3636454/

2013 “Fluids, Rivers, and Vessels: Metaphors and Body Concepts in Mesopotamian Gynaecological Texts”, in: Journal des Médecines Cunéiformes 22, 1-23.   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3791376/

2014 (co-authored with N.N. May) “Introduction: Urban Topography as a Reflection of Society?”, in: N.N. May, U. Steinert (eds.), The Fabric of Cities. Aspects of Urbanism, Urban Topography and Society in Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 68), Leiden, Boston: Brill, 1-41.

2014 “City Streets: Reflections on Urban Society in the Cuneiform Sources of the 2nd and 1st Millennium BCE” in: N.N. May, U. Steinert (eds.), The Fabric of Cities. Aspects of Urbanism, Urban Topography and Society in Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 68), Leiden, Boston: Brill, 123-169. 

2014 „Topologische und projektive Relationen in Akkadischen Keilschrifttexten“, in: S. Kutscher, D.A. Werning (eds.), On Ancient Grammars of Space. Linguistic Research on the Expression of Spatial Relations and Motion in Ancient Languages. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 109-194.  http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/204671

2014 “Synthetische Körperauffassungen in akkadischen Keilschrifttexten und mesopotamische Götterkonzepte”, in: Katrin Müller und Andreas Wagner (eds.), Synthetische Körperauffassung im Hebräischen und den Sprachen der Nachbarkulturen (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 416), Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 73-106.

2015 “Von inneren Räumen und blühenden Landschaften: Der weibliche Körper in der babylonischen Medizin”, in: Frauen im Alten Orient, Antike Welt. Zeitschrift für Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte 2015/ 2, 19-25.

2015 “'Tested' Remedies in Mesopotamian Medical Texts: A Label for Efficacy Based on Empirical Observation?”, in: J.C. Johnson (ed.), In the Wake of the Compendia: Infrastructural Contexts and the Licensing of Empiricism in Ancient and Medieval Mesopotamia, Berlin: de Gruyter, 103-145.  http://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/456368

2016 “Uterus”, in: M.P. Streck et al. (ed.), Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie, Bd. 14/7-8, de Gruyter: Berlin/New York, 513-516 (§§ 1-5, § 6 by Paola Paoletti).

2016 “Körperwissen, Tradition und Innovation in der babylonischen Medizin”, in:  A.-B. Renger and C. Wulf (eds.), Körperwissen: Transfer und Innovation. Paragrana. Internationale Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie 25/1. Berlin: de Gruyter, 195-254.

2017 “Cows, Women and Wombs: Interrelations Between Texts and Images from the Ancient Near East”, in: D. Kertai, O. Nieuwenhuyse (eds.), From the Four Corners of the Earth: Studies in Iconography and Cultures of the Ancient Near East in Honour of F.A.M. Wiggermann (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 441), Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 205-258.

2017: "Person, Identität und Individualität im antiken Mesopotamien“, in: E. Bons and K. Finsterbusch (eds.), Konstruktionen individueller und kollektiver Identität (II). Alter Orient, hellenistisches Judentum, römische Antike, Alte Kirche. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 39-100.

Reviews:

2014 Review of The Healing Goddess Gula. Towards an Understanding of Ancient Babylonian Medicine. By Barbara Böck. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 67. Brill: Leiden, 2014, in: Journal of Near Eastern Studies 73/2, 357-364. 

2016 Review of Walter Farber, Lamaštu. An Edition of the Canonical Series of Lamaštu Incantations and Rituals and Related Texts from the Second and First Millennia B.C. (Mesopotamian Civilizations 17). Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2014. In: Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie 106/2, 240-251.

Contributions in Research Blogs:

“Like an alien in a strange old world – Reading Mesopotamian medical texts on women’s healthcare”, The Recipes Project. Food, Magic, Art, Science and Medicine.

http://recipes.hypotheses.org (Posted 10.03.2014). http://recipes.hypotheses.org/3273

“I smell a rat! Fumigation in Mesopotamian and Hippocratic recipes for women’s ailments – Part 1”, The Recipes Project. Food, Magic, Art, Science and Medicine. 

http://recipes.hypotheses.org (Posted 11.03.2014). http://recipes.hypotheses.org/3278

“I smell a rat! Fumigation in Mesopotamian and Hippocratic recipes for women’s ailments – Part 2”, The Recipes Project. Food, Magic, Art, Science and Medicine. 

http://recipes.hypotheses.org (Posted 13.03.2014). http://recipes.hypotheses.org/3284

Forthcoming or in Preparation: 

Women’s Healthcare in Ancient Mesopotamia: An Edition of the Textual Sources. To be published in the series Babylonisch-Assyrische Medizin (BAM), Berlin: de Gruyter.

“Concepts of the female body in Mesopotamian gynaecological texts”, in: Wee, J. (ed.), The Comparable Body: Imagination and Analogy in Ancient Anatomy and Physiology, Berlin: de Gruyter.

“Looking for clients in the Mesopotamian ritual texts“, in: J.C. Johnson (ed.), Patients, patronage and performative identity: At the intersection of the Mesopotamian technical disciplines and their clients. Proceedings of the workshop held at the 60th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale at Warsaw, July 23, 2014. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns.

Steinert, Ulrike. (ed.), Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues: Medicine, Magic and Divination. Babylonisch-Assyrische Medizin (BAM) IX. Berlin: de Gruyter.