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Cecilia Wassen (born 1962) is a Swedish scholar of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Jewish context of the early Jesus movement, and of the historical Jesus. She currently holds the position of Associate Professor at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Education Wassen earned her degrees in religious studies from both Sweden and Canada. In 1988 she earned a BA from Uppsala University, later that year she also received a M. Div. Two years later, in 1990, she earned her MA from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The topic of her thesis was "The Sadducees." She was awarded with a PhD in 2004, also from McMaster University, for her dissertation "Women in the Damascus Document."

Career Ever since completing her doctoral studies, Wassen has been an engaged scholar in the religious field (including some part-time lecturing before the completion of there PhD). From the fall of 2003 to 2007 she worked as an Associate Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. After that, from 2008 to 2010, Wassen worked as an Assistant Professor at Uppsala University, Sweden (during this time she also worked at Umeå University as a part-time lecturers). From 2011 to present day she has been employed by Uppsala University as an Associate Professor in the area of New Testament Exegesis.

Scholarly and Professional Involvement Since 2015 Wassen is a member of the editorial board for Dead Sea Discoveries. From 2018 she is also on the editorial board for Journal of Biblical Literature. She also holds a number of other important positions in the scholarly community. Some of the most noticeable are: 2017-present, Co-chair (with James Crossley) for the unit Historical Jesus at SBL; 2012-present, Secretary for the Swedish Exegetical Society (SEÅ); 2009-2015, Co-chair (with Sidnie White Crawford) for the unit Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls at SBL;