Patricia Eunji Kim
Patricia Eunji Kim (she/her) is Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study and Associate Director of Public Engagement at Monument Lab. Kim’s research, teaching, and curatorial projects use art historical methods to explore questions of gender, race, power, and memory from antiquity to the present. She is currently writing Bodies of Power: The Art and Archaeology of Hellenistic Queenship (4th-2nd century BCE), the first-book length study on the visual and material culture of ancient queenship from the Hellenistic world. Kim is also co-editor of Timescales: Thinking Across Ecological Temporalities (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) and Shaping the Past: Transnational Memory at Work (Under Contract). Website: www.patriciaekim.com.
Anastasia Amrhein
Anastasia Amrhein (she/her) is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Bryn Mawr College. She is an art historian, curator, and educator, whose work focuses on materiality, divinity, and sex/gender in ancient Western Asia. Most recently, she co-curated the exhibition A Wonder to Behold: Craftsmanship and the Creation of Babylon’s Ishtar Gate at NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and co-edited the eponymous catalogue and collection of essays. She has also worked on curatorial projects at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Penn Museum and lectured at these and other cultural institutions. She received her PhD in the History of Art from the University of Pennsylvania in 2021, with a dissertation that explored the gendered politics of the production and use of clay figurines and stone cylinder seals in Assyria and Babylonia. Instagram: @anastasiaamrhein; Twitter: @Anastasia_Amr; Website: https://independentresearcher.academia.edu/AnastasiaAmrhein .