Jinyan Wang

PhD Candidate
jinyan.wang@mail.utoronto.ca

Fields of Study

  • Assyriology

Areas of Interest

  • Assyriology
  • Neo-Babylonian period
  • Economic and social history
  • Social Network Analysis
  • Digital Humanities

Biography

Jinyan Wang is a PhD candidate in Assyriology. Currently she is working on her dissertation "The Rise of the Neo-Babylonian Empire (631–582 BCE)". She was a research assistant for the project MTAAC (Machine Translation and Automated Analysis of Cuneiform Languages) and BabCity (a project to build an online corpus of texts concerning urban properties from the first millennium BCE Babylonia). She has a particular interest in the applications of Social Network Analysis to cuneiform archives.

Current Supervisor(s)

Paul-Alain Beaulieu

Dissertation Title

The Rise of the Neo-Babylonian Empire (631–582 BCE)

Publications

  • Drafts of kiṣirtus in the Middle Assyrian Administrative Archives. Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie (Forthcoming)
  • Annotating a Low-Resource Language with LLOD Technology: Sumerian Morphology and Syntax. Information. 9(11): 16 pgs. https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/9/11/290 (With C, Chiarcos; C, Fäth; Jayanth; I, Khait; W, Mcgrath; É, Pagé-Perron; N, Schenk; J, Steuer) (2018)

Presentations

  • Elite Families in Babylon during the Reign of Darius I (522–486 BCE): A Social Network Analysis Approach. 4th Annual Digital Humanities Conference, University of Toront) (2021)
  • Morphological Annotation of the Gold Corpus (Sumerian Annotation Workshop). University of California Berkeley (2019)