Hanna Tervanotko
Hanna Tervanotko (born in Vantaa, Finland) is a Finnish-born Canadian historian of religion. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. Her research focuses on the Second Temple era and her research interests include women in antiquity, Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls, and Jewish interpretation of scripture. She is affiliated with the Centre of Excellence "Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions" (CSTT) at the University of Helsinki. Biography. Tervanotko earned her M.A. (2003) and Th.D. (2013) in Biblical Studies at the University of Helsinki. She also earned Ph.D.  in Jewish Studies at the University of Vienna in 2013 under a cotutelle de thèse agreement between the two universities. After accomplishing her dissertation Tervanotko was awarded the Academy of Finland postdoctoral grant (2014–2017). Tervanotko has also studied at New York University (NYU), Yale University, KU Leuven and University of Groningen. In her doctoral dissertation Tervanotko analyzed the figure of Miriam in ancient Jewish literature. Her work "Denying Her Voice: The Figure of Miriam in Ancient Jewish Literature" continues this interest. From 2013 to 2017 Tervanotko was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki. She currently works on  projects in which she compares the Jewish and Greek prophetic figures in the context of the literature of the Second Temple era, themes that developed out of her post-doctoral research. Tervanotko was invited to be one of the guest speakers in the first TEDxBrusselsWomen forum in 2016.