SORAYA FIELD FIORIO
HISTORIAN WRITER MUSICIAN
Photo c. Gail Albert Halaban from the series "Out My Window"
about
Soraya Field Fiorio is a historian, writer, and musician based in New York City. Her research interests include intellectual history, comparative mythology, and the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of the ancient Near East and Aegean. She works to recover "lost" historical women—hidden figures whose presence has been omitted from the traditional metanarrative through either intentional destruction or neglect.
A classically-trained pianist, she is one half of the band
White Falcon Black Dove along with Chaka Malik.
writing
The Rise and Fall of
History's First Empire
Discover history’s first empire: Sumer, located in Mesopotamia, which built the world’s first cities and created the first writing system.
TED-Ed
October 2020
Who Was the World's
First Author?
Travel back in time to ancient Mesopotamia and meet Enheduanna, a high priestess and the world’s first author.
TED-Ed
March 2020
The Murder of Ancient Alexandria's Greatest Scholar
Who was Hypatia and why was she deemed a threat?
TED-Ed
August 2019
A fight over all things visible and invisible, featuring practical magic, empire, and terrible men.
Lapham's Quarterly
January 2019
On archaic marriage laws—and those who found loopholes in them.
Lapham's Quarterly
June 2018
