Eleanor Robson

Eleanor Robson is a Professor of Ancient Middle Eastern History at the Department of History, University College London, former chair of the British Institute for the Study of Iraq and a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
Career.
In 1990 Robson graduated with a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Warwick. Robson received a DPhil from the University of Oxford in 1995, after which she was a British Academy postdoctoral research fellow from 1997– 2000 and then a post-doctoral research Fellow at All Souls College from 2000–2003, associated with the Faculty of Oriental Studies. From 2004 to 2013 Robson was based at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.
Robson is the author or co-author of several books on Mesopotamian culture and the history of mathematics. In 2003, she won the Lester R. Ford Award of the Mathematical Association of America for her work on Plimpton 322, a clay tablet of Babylonian mathematics; contrary to previous theories according to which this tablet was of number theoretic character or was trigonometric table, Robson showed that it could have been a collection of school exercises in solving right-triangle problems. She has also been widely quoted for her criticism of the U.S. Government's failure to prevent looting at the National Museum of Iraq during the Iraq War in 2003.
Robson has received funding from the AHRC for the Nahrein Network.
Robson was the Chair of the Council for The British Institute for the Study of Iraq from 2012–2017.
Honours and awards.
In 2011 Robson won the History of Science Society's Pfizer Award for her monograph "Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History."
Robson was a visiting lecturer at the College de France in June 2017.