Westenholz, Joan Goodnick, 1943-
- Summary
- Joan Goodnick Westenholz was an Assyriologist and the chief curator at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem. She held positions related to academic research at the Oriental Institute, Harvard University, Ruhr University Bochum (Germany), New York University, Princeton University, and the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research at Jerusalem. She was one of the first people to research gender studies in relation to the Ancient Near East and she co-founded and edited the inter-disciplinary NIN – Journal of Gender Studies in Antiquity. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Female [1][2][3][4][5]
- Born
- 1943-07-01 [2][5]
- Birth Place
- Philadelphia (Pennsylvanie, États-Unis) [3]
- Philadelphia [5]
- Died
- 2013 [5]
- 2013-02-18 [2]
- Country
- Israel [2]
- Language
- English [3]
- Occupation
- assyriologist [5]
- archaeologist [5]
- Profession
- Altorientalistin [2]
- Employer
- Bible Lands Museum [5]
- Educated at
- University of Pennsylvania [5]
- University of Chicago [5]
- Country of Education
- United States [5]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [5]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. National Library of Korea
- 5. Wikidata
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