Marcelo Aparecido Rede

Professor of Ancient History at the University of São Paulo (USP). He earned his undergraduate degree in History from the University of São Paulo (1988), an M.A. in History from the Fluminense Federal University (1994), and subsequently a Master-2 (2000) and Ph.D. (2004) in Ancient History (Assyriology) from the Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Between 1999 and 2002, he conducted research in cuneiform epigraphy at the Louvre Museum, publishing previously unpublished documents from the site of Tell Senkereh (ancient Larsa). He pursued studies in Sumerian, Akkadian, Near Eastern archaeology, and cuneiform law at the École du Louvre and at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris). From 1992 to 2008, he was an associate professor at the Fluminense Federal University. Since 2011, he has been the coordinator of LAOP-USP (Laboratory for the Ancient Near East, USP). He is a Foreign Member of the French CNRS research unit HASAÉ (Histoire et Archéologie du Sud-ouest Asiatique et de lÉgypte). He has served as Visiting Professor at the Universities of Paris-Sorbonne (2019) and Bordeaux (2023), and as Resident Research Fellow at the École Française de Rome (20222023). He currently holds a level B Productivity Fellowship from CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Brazil). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)