| Department Affiliation | Art History |
| Date Elected | 2023 |
| Biographical Sketch | David Mulder received a BA from Wake Forest University in interdisciplinary studies with a thesis on the working methods of Neo-Assyrian sculptors at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu). He is currently a PhD candidate in the History of Art at Penn and is working on a dissertation that investigates notions of wildness, domesticity, and animality in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia, with a particular focus on the motif of the animal combat in glyptic art. While at Penn, he has participated in the legacy publication project and the renewed excavations at the site of Tell al-Hiba (ancient Lagash), Iraq, and has been involved in research and text writing for the renovated Eastern Mediterranean gallery at the Penn Museum, including an article in the accompanying issue of Expedition magazine. He has presented papers at the annual meeting of the American Society for Overseas Research (ASOR), the International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE), and a colloquium of the Association for Coroplastic Studies. One article on the motif of the embracing couple in Old Babylonian terracotta plaques and another on a bitumen relief fragment from Neo-Elamite Susa are currently in press. |
| Relevant Links | https://arth.sas.upenn.edu/people/david-mulder https://mec.sas.upenn.edu/people/david-mulder https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/articles/volume64-issue3/ |