Ryan Winters is a postdoctoral researcher in the Tablet Collection of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures West Asia and North Africa. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago in 2009 and his PhD from Harvard University in 2019. From 2018–2022, Winters was a postdoctoral researcher at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena in Germany. His primary research interests include the socioeconomic history of the Ancient Near East and Sumero-Babylonian religion.