Born in Boston, Karen Nemet-Nejat is the first female to graduate with a PhD in Ancient Near Eastern Studies from Colombia University with Distinction. She has received multiple grants From Yale University and has done numerous research projects in affiliation with the institution.Nemet-Nejat has published several books based on her research in various fields of cuneiform studies, including field plans, mathematical texts as well as in depth research on daily life and culture of Ancient Mesopotamia. In addition she has published numerous articles including Religion of the Common People in Mesopotamia, Leisure, Recreation, and Daily Life, and the role of Women in Ancient Mesopotamia, to name only a few of the broad and various topics she has covered.She has given several presentations on these and many other topics over the years earning her international prestige within the Ancient Near Eastern Studies community.Her work experience ranges from visiting scholar at Yale University to visiting Professor at the Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Turkey, on Comparative Mythology, on Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Greek and Anatolian Mythology.Amongst several awards she was granted the National Endowment for Humanities as part of the Yale team cataloging mathematical tablets in the Yale Babylonian Collection.