Andrew A. N. Deloucas
Assyriologist · Digital Humanist · Ancient Historian

I study Bronze Age Mesopotamian cities and their civic, economic, and legal institutions. I also work on provenance records of American cuneiform collections prior to 1970.

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Andrew A. N. Deloucas
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Research

Pottorf and Deloucas (2024)
Ongoing · 2026–

Provenance of American Cuneiform Collections

I am tracing the history of American cuneiform collections prior to 1970, focusing on private acquisition and institutional exchanges.

Deloucas (2026)
Dissertation · 2023–2026

Elite Persistence in Old Babylonian Nippur & Ur (2026-1700 BCE)

I investigated the institutional economy of two Old Babylonian cities using a relational database built for 2,500 cuneiform records and 13,000 attested names.

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Hamurabi (1973)
Ongoing · 2025–

Gaming Mesopotamia

I am investigating how Mesopotamia has been represented in 'edutainment' spaces and its influence on modern cultural historical study.

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Selected Publications

In prep Ikūn-pîša and the Amorite Coalition For Journal of Near Eastern Studies Peer-review
In prep Nippur's Old Babylonian Neighborhood, Areas TA-TC For Revue d'assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale Peer-review
In prep The Lu-Inana line of the Sag-Enlil Family For Journal of Cuneiform Studies Peer-review
2024 The Groton School Cuneiform Text Collection Cuneiform Digital Library Bulletin 2024/2, 1–19 · with Andrew Pottorf Peer-review
2024 Use of Relational Databases for Medium-Sized Corpus Study OpenDANES 2024 Poster
2022 Review of R. de Boer, The Ikūn-pîša Letter Archive Bibliotheca Orientalis 79(5–6), 561–566 Book review
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Teaching & Talks

In the classroom

Harvard University, 2020–2025

  • Instructor — Introductory Akkadian I & II; Akkadian Royal Inscriptions; Political History of the Old Babylonian Period
  • Head Teaching Fellow — Stories from the End of the World; Prediction: The Past and Present of the Future; Tragedy Today
  • Teaching Fellow — Can We Know Our Past?; Anthropology of Crisis; The Ancient Greek Hero

Featured talks

30+ papers & invited lectures since 2018

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Consultation & Editing

Featured projects

Consultation & Editing Table of Gods Arim Hawsho
Consultation Down the Rabbit Hole: The Intellectual Journeys of Violent Racists, Conspiracy Theorists, Flat Earthers, and Other Americans on the Fringe Alice Marwick
Editing Royal Women at Ugarit: Reconceiving the House of the Father Christine Thomas