Professor
John A. Brinkman
University of Chicago
Historian; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
History
Elected
1991
John A. Brinkman is the Charles H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Mesopotamian History, Emeritus at the University of Chicago. He is the former director of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on Babylonian and Assyrian political and socio-economic history, and Mesopotamian chronology, demography, and historiography.
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