Robert K. Englund Englund teaches at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures of the University of California, Los Angeles . He has conducted his major research on the proto-cuneiform texts from Mesopotamia as a member of the project Archaische Texte aus Uruk , and as principle investigator of the project Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative ( CDLI ), Los Angeles and Berlin, and as editor of and contributor to the online journals Cuneiform Digital Library Journal and Bulletin ( ), on the electronic documentation and edition of late 4th and 3rd millennium B.C. cuneiform archives. Englund finished his BA at the University of California at Berkeley, and following a year of graduate work at the University of Chicago, moved to Munich, where he wrote his dissertation entitled Verwaltung und Organisation der Ur III-Fischerei The Administration and Organization of Ur III Fisheries ). The thesis is concerned above all with the administration of fisheries in the neo-Sumerian period, emphasizing an analysis of the accounting terminology in the Ur III period (ca. 2100-2000 BC) archives as a tool for understanding the organization and social position of fishermen and comparable state-dependent workers, Sumerian gurush/erin2 and geme2, and of supervisors of household economic units, Sumerian ugula.
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