Joan Goodnick Westenholz

Joan Goodnick Westenholz
Born	1 July 1943 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died	February 2013
Alma mater	University of Pennsylvania University of Chicago
Occupation(s)	Archaeologist and Assyriologist
Known for	Bible Lands Museum

Joan Goodnick Westenholz (1 July 1943 – February 2013) was an Assyriologist and the chief curator at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem. She held positions related to academic research at the Oriental Institute (University of Chicago), Harvard University, Ruhr University Bochum (Germany), New York University, Princeton University, and the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research at Jerusalem. She was one of the first people to research gender studies in relation to the Ancient Near East and she co-founded and edited the inter-disciplinary NIN – Journal of Gender Studies in Antiquity.^[1]