American ancient historian at Cal Poly Pomona who wrote Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East — offering a social history of ancient Mesopotamia, Syria, and Egypt focused on ordinary people rather than kings.
Provides the social history of the ancient Near East focused on ordinary people — Weavers, Scribes, and Kings' account of ancient Mesopotamian daily life (weaving women, scribal students, merchants, farmers) through cuneiform archives gives the ancient Near East a human face that king-focused histories cannot.
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