Saana Svärd

Saana Svärd is a Finnish Assyriologist and Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies in the Faculty of Arts and the University of Helsinki. She's currently leading the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires and is specialised in Neo-Assyrian Women.
== Known work ==
* Power and women in the Neo-Assyrian palaces - PhD-Thesis
* Women, Power and Heterarchy in the Neo-Assyrian Palaces
* Changes in Neo-Assyrian Queenship
* Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East: First Steps and Future Prospects - with Agnès Garcia-Ventura
* Studying Gender: A Case Study of Female Administrators in Neo-Assyrian Palaces
* Neo-Assyrian Elite Women
* Cross-cultural Studies in Near Eastern History and Literature - with Robert Rollinger
* Gender and Methodology in Assyriology
* Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Anthology of the Earliest Female Authors - with Charles Halton
* Theoretical Approaches, Gender, and the Ancient Near East: An Introduction - with Agnès Garcia-Ventura
* Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East - with Agnès Garcia-Ventura
* Semantic Domains in Akkadian Texts - with Heidi Jauhiainen, Aleksi Sahala, and Krister Lindén
* (Re)constructing the Image of the Assinnu - with Martti Nissinen
* Women, Family Life, and Gender Roles in Ancient Mesopotamia - with Agnès Garcia-Ventura
* Third Workshop on Gender, Methodology, and the Ancient Near East: Enhancing Networking and Consolidating an Initiative - with Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Katrien De Graef
* Female Sages in Akkadian Literature
* Aššur and His Friends: A Statistical Analysis of Neo-Assyrian Texts - with Tero Alstola, Shana Zaia, Aleksi Sahala, Heidi Jauhiainen, and Krister Lindén
* Language technology approach to “seeing” in Akkadian - with Aleksi Sahala
* Fear in Akkadian Texts: New Digital Perspectives on Lexical Semantics - with Tero Alstola, Heidi Jauhiainen, Aleksi Sahala, and Krister Lindén
* Digital Approaches to Analyzing and Translating Emotion: What Is Love? - with Tero Alstola, Heidi Jauhiainen, Aleksi Sahala, and Krister Lindén
Category:Scholars
Category:Finnish scholars
Category:Assyriologists