William McGrath

William McGrath is a Ph.D graduate in Assyriology with a focus on Sumerian and Babylonian cultures. His MA thesis focused on the Exorcist's Handbook (SA.GIG), while his Ph.D dissertation is a reexamination of the Isin II period (corresponding to a Babylonian dynasty that reigned c. 1125 B.C.), its political history, literature and the religious developments which occurred in that time. William is interested in anything and everything pertaining to the thought world of the Mesopotamians and the development of cognition across time.

Education

• PhD, University of Toronto
• MA, University of Toronto
• BA, University of Toronto

Current Supervisor(s)

• Paul-Alain Beaulieu

Dissertation Title

Resurgent Babylon: A Cultural, Political and Intellectual History of the Second Dynasty of Isin

Publications

Annotating a Low-Resource Language with LLOD Technology: Sumerian Morphology and Syntax. Information. 9(11): 16 pgs. https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/9/11/290 (With C, Chiarcos; C, Fäth; Jayanth; I, Khait; J, Wang; É, Pagé-Perron; N, Schenk; J, Steuer) (2018)

Presentations

"Let the Poor Man Die! And Other Subtle Social Criticisms in the Sumerian Proverb Collections." A paper read at the 69th Rencontre Assyriologique, Leiden (July 20th, 2023).