Professor Shawna Dolansky is an ancient historian who specializes in the emergence of the Hebrew Bible within its ancient Near Eastern context. Curious about the real lives of religious and literary figures and their authors, her work cuts across disciplinary boundaries of religious studies, literature, history, anthropology, and archaeology, and spans several subfields, including goddesses, magic, figurines, gender and social structure, the history of biblical interpretation, and the integration of text, archaeology, politics, and imagination in the writing of history. Current research interests include a study of the history of Adam and Eve in popular culture, and re-thinking the figure of Jezebel in the Hebrew Bible in light of historical and archaeological considerations; both are part of a larger digital humanities graphic history project, "Women of the Ancient World" (coming soon at woawhistory.com).