James P. Allen is Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at Brown University. He has served as Cairo Director of the American Research Center in Egypt and Curator of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is currently President of the International Association of Egyptologists.
Sally-Ann Ashton is Senior Assistant Keeper in the Department of Antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. She studied Ptolemaic royal sculpture for her doctorate, which she received from King’s College London in 1999, and has since worked on two special exhibitions relating to sculpture - Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth (2000-1) and Roman Egyptomania (2003). Her current research interests include African-centered approaches to Egyptology and the role of museums in prisons.
Michel Baud gained his PhD at the Sor-bonne University (1994) for a thesis devoted to the royal family of the Old Kingdom, and he has published extensively on the administration and society of this period. He is a former scientific member of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology (IFAO), Cairo (1994-8), and is currently head of the Sudan and Nubia section of the Louvre Museum. He directed the IFAO excavations in the elite necropolis of Dje-defre/Radjedef at Abu Rawash (20017) and is now involved in the Louvre project at Saqqara, Akhethetep area.
Andrew Bednarski is a Research Egyptologist at the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE). He gained his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2005 and specializes in the history of Egyptology in nineteenth-century Britain. He is currently working on two ARCE projects: the Luxor East Bank Groundwater Lowering Response Project; and the editing of an unpublished nineteenth-century manuscript, Frederic Cailliaud’s ‘‘Rech-erches sur les arts et metiers des anciens egyptiens.’’
Betsy M. Bryan is Alexander Badawy Professor of Egyptian Art and Archaeology at the Johns Hopkins University and is the University’s Director of the Expedition to the Temple of Mut. Her specialization is New Kingdom history and art history, particularly of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Her research concerns the social and cultural contexts of art and religion, as exhibited in both tomb and temple environments. She is also interested in interpreting ancient Egypt for the public and has curated two major international loan exhibitions: Egypt’s Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and his World (1992-3) and The Quest for Immortality (2002-6).
Livia Capponi graduated in Classics in Pavia, Italy, and obtained a DPhil in Ancient History at Oxford in 2003. Since 2006, after obtaining another doctorate at San Marino, she has been teaching Ancient History at Newcastle University. She has published monographs entitled Augustan Egypt. The Creation of a Roman Province in 2005 and Il Tempio di Leontopoli in Egitto. Identita politica e religiosa dei Giudei di Onia in 2007. Her main interests are Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, documentary papyrology, the history of the Jewish People in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, and the ancient Mediterranean.
Willy Clarysse is Professor of Papyr-ology and Ancient History at the Katho-lieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, and a member of the Flemish Academy of Belgium. He is active as an editor of Greek and Demotic papyri (P. Petrie2 I, 1991), a prosopographer (Pros. Ptol. IX, 1981) and a historian of the multicultural society of Graeco-Roman Egypt (Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt, 2006, with D. J. Thompson).
Michael Cooperson is Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. His interests include the cultural history of the early Abbasid period, translation and transculturation, and historical fiction and time-travel literature. His most recent monograph is Al-Ma’mun (One-World, 2005).
Eugene Cruz-Uribe received his BA, MA, and PhD from the University of
Chicago. He has taught at Brown University and Northern Arizona University. He has conducted a number of field projects in Egypt concentrating on Late Period sites in Kharga Oasis, as well as at the Valley of the Kings and Aswan. His current research projects deal with issues of ancient graffiti (especially Demotic) and religious practices bridging the transition from traditional cults to Christianity. He is currently editor of the Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt.
Paola Davoli graduated in Egyptology at the University of Bologna and gained her PhD in the same university in 1997. At present she is Associate Professor of Egyptology at University of Lecce. Since 2004, together with Professor M. Capasso, she has been co-director of the archaeological mission at Dime (Sokno-paiou Nesos, el-Fayum). From 2005 she has been the field director of the archaeological mission at Amheida (Dakhla Oasis) of Columbia University (NY), directed by R. S. Bagnall. She was the field director from 1995 to 2004 of the Joint Archaeological Mission of Bologna and Lecce Universities at Bakchias (el-Fayum).
Leo Depuydt studied in Leuven, Cincinnati, Jerusalem, and Tubingen before cataloguing the Morgan Library’s Coptic manuscripts as a dissertation for Yale (PhD 1990), where he also taught as Senior Lector in Syriac and Coptic. He has been at Brown University since 1991 and has recently worked on digitizing language structure (see The Other Mathematics: Language and Logic in Egyptian and in General, Gorgias Press, 2008).
Aidan Dodson is a Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Bristol and Unit Director for Egyptology. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2003 and is the author of eleven books and nearly two hundred articles.
Roland Enmarch works on questions of genre and intertextuality in Egyptian written culture. He read Egyptology at Oxford, where he also obtained his doctorate in Ancient Egyptian literature. He is currently Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Liverpool and also serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology.
Christopher Eyre has been Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and then Professor of Egyptology, in the School of Classics, Archaeology, and Egyptology at Liverpool University, since 1977. His research has focused on the economic and social history of Pharaonic Egypt, on the linguistic structure and history of the Egyptian language, on literacy and the performance of both literary and ritual texts, and on the epigraphic recording of monuments at Saqqara and Abydos.
Frank FOrster is a Research Fellow at the University of Cologne where he studied Egyptology, Classical Archaeology and Prehistoric Archaeology. He has participated in excavations at various sites in Egypt since 1995. His main research interests have focused on the Pre - and Early Dynastic periods, sports in ancient Egypt, and the archaeology of the Western Desert roads.
David Frankfurter, Professor (Religious Studies/History) at the University of New Hampshire, is the author of numerous articles on apocalypticism, magic, Christianization, demonology, and violence in antiquity, especially in Roman and Late Antique Egypt. His books include Elijah in Upper Egypt (1993) and Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimilation and Resistance (1998).
Rita E. Freed is the John F. Cogan and Mary L. Cornille Chair, Art of the Ancient World, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she oversees collections of
Egyptian, Nubian, Ancient Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman art. She is also Adjunct Professor of Art at Wellesley College. She is best known for her organization of major exhibitions, including Pharaohs of the Sun: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen, Ramesses the Great: The Pharaoh and His Time, and A Divine Tour ofAncient Egypt. She has participated in archaeological excavations in Egypt, Israel, and Cyprus and has authored many books and articles.
Elizabeth Frood is University Lecturer in Egyptology at the Faculty of Oriental Studies and Fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford. Her research interests include non-royal self-presentation in the late New Kingdom and early Third Intermediate Period, sacred space and landscape, and aspects of lived experience such as the senses and perception. She is co-author of Woodcutters, Potters and Doorkeepers: Service Personnel of the Deir el-Medina Workmen (Nederlands Insti-tuut voor het Nabije Oosten), and author of Biographical Texts from Ramessid Egypt (SBL Writings from the Ancient World).
Ben Haring studied Egyptology in Leiden and Heidelberg. Since 1996 he has been a Lecturer in Egyptology at Leiden University, teaching Egyptian language and history courses. Two postdoctoral fellowships from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) held between 1997 and 2004 were devoted to research on the non-literary texts from the Ramesside community of necropolis workmen in Western Thebes, resulting in The Deir el-Medina Database. Topics of current research include the ostraca and papyri from Deir el-Medina and related sites, administration and economy, orality and literacy, non-textual marking systems, and hieroglyphic palaeography.
Stan Hendrickx is Lecturer in History of Art in the Department of Fine Arts of the PHL University College, Hasselt, Belgium. Since 1977 he has participated in a number of excavations in Egypt including expeditions to el-Kab, Adaima, Deir el-Bersha, and the Western Desert. In addition to his interest in ceramology his research focuses on the time-frame stretching from the Predynastic period to the end of the Old Kingdom.
Dennis Kehoe is Professor of Classical Studies at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. His research interests focus on the role of law and legal institutions in the ancient economy, particularly in the Roman Empire. He has written several works on the economy of Roman Egypt.
E. Christiana Koehler is a German-born Egyptologist who graduated from the University of Heidelberg in 1993. She is currently based at Macquarie University in Sydney where she teaches Egyptology and Egyptian Archaeology. Since 1996 she has been the director of the Australian excavations in the Early Dynastic cemetery at Helwan.
Alan B. Lloyd is currently Professor Emeritus in the Department of Classics, Ancient History, and Egyptology at Swansea University He was a member of the Saqqara Epigraphic Project in the 1970s and edited the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology from 1979 to 1985 and many books for the Egypt Exploration Society and Kegan Paul International. He was chairman of the Egypt Exploration Society from 1994 to 2007 (now Vice-President) and is the author of numerous publications on Egyptological and Classical subjects.
Gerald Moers gained his PhD in 1996 and is currently Assistant Professor of Egyptology and Coptic Studies at Georg-August University Gclttingen. He has also taught in Los Angeles, Munich, and Basel. His main areas of research are
Egyptian language and literature, cultural history, and the reception of Egypt.
Ludwig D. Morenz is Privatdozent in Egyptology at the University of Leipzig. His main research interests are Egyptian literature, the origins of writing, visual poetry, historiography and cultural contacts between Ancient Egypt, the Ancient Near East, and the Mediterranean. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Egyptian History and the author of numerous articles and books including Bild-Buchstaben und symbo-lische Zeichen. Die Herausbildung der Schrift in der hohen Kultur Altagyptens, in Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, Freiburg und Gottingen 2004, and Sinn und Spiel der Zeichen. Visuelle Poesie im AltenJAgyp-ten, in Pictura et Poiesis, Cologne, Weimar, and Vienna, 2008.
Ellen F. Morris is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University. She directs a field project examining Old Kingdom occupation at the site of Amheida in Dakhla Oasis and is the Academic Director of the New York University Archaeology and History Program in Egypt.
A. D. Morrison is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Manchester. He is the author of The Narrator in Archaic Greek and Hellenistic Poetry (Cambridge, 2007) and Performances and Audiences in Pindar’s Sicilian Victory Odes (London, 2007). He is currently working on the influence of Herodotos on the Hellenistic poets.
Gregory D. Mumford is Assistant Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Anthropology and Social Work, the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is Director of Excavations at a late Old Kingdom fort at Tell Ras Budran (south-west Sinai), a Pharaonic anchorage and copper smelting camp at Tell Markha (south-west Sinai), and a Late Period port town at Tell Tebilla (East Delta). Research interests include late Old Kingdom to First Intermediate Period occupation at Mendes and other settlements and crosscultural relations between Egypt and its neighbors, particularly in the Late Bronze and Iron Ages.
Christopher Naunton is Deputy Director of the Egypt Exploration Society. He studied Egyptology at the universities of Birmingham and Swansea and has worked in the field at Abydos and in several Late Period tombs in Western Thebes. His research focuses on the Twenty-fifth Dynasty and also the history and development of Egyptology.
Sarah Parcak is an Assistant Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she also directs the Laboratory for Global Health Observation. She is the author of Satellite Remote Sensing for Archaeology (Routledge, 2009).
Robert B. Partridge is the author of several books on ancient Egyptian subjects, including transport, the royal mummies, and weapons and warfare. He lectures in the UK and abroad on various aspects of ancient Egypt, is Chairman of the Manchester Ancient Egypt Society, runs the Ancient Egypt Picture Library, and is the Editor of Ancient Egypt magazine, published in the UK.
Olivier Perdu is a professor in the 12cole du Louvre and is a member of the research team of the Chair of Pharaonic Civilization of the College de France, where he is also responsible for the scientific archives stored in the Institut d’egyptologie. He is a committee member of the Societe francaise d’egyptologie, and he also serves on the editorial committee of the Revue d’lSgyptologie.
Nigel Pollard is a Lecturer in Ancient History at Swansea University with particular interests in Roman and Hellenistic history and archaeology. He has undertaken fieldwork at Koptos/Qift and archival and collections research on material from Karanis in the Fayum, and has published extensively on the Roman army in the east.
Lutz Popko is currentlly a Research Assistant on the Academy of Sciences of Saxony Project Altagyptisches Worter-buch. During 2001-4 he was a Postgraduate in the Research Training Group, Vormoderne Konzepte von Zeit und Vergangenheit, at the University of Cologne and was awarded his PhD at the University of Leipzig in 2005 for a thesis entitled ‘‘Untersuchungen zur Geschichtsschreibung der Ahmosiden-und Thutmosidenzeit.’’ Since 2007 he has been an editorial assistant for the Zeitschrift fUr agyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde
Christina Riggs is a Lecturer in the School of World Art Studies, University of East Anglia. She is the author of The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt (Oxford University Press, 2005) and was previously Curator of the Egyptian collection at the Manchester Museum and a Research Fellow at the Queen’s College, Oxford.
T. E. Rihll is a Senior Lecturer in Classics at Swansea University. She has written books and papers on ancient science and technology (e. g. Greek Science Oxford University Press, 1999; The Catapult: A History, Westholme 2007) and co-edits Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science with Alan Bowen (ICRPS).
Corinna Rossi graduated in Architecture in Naples and specialized in Egyptology at Cambridge University under Barry J. Kemp. She is the author of a book and several articles on ancient Egyptian architecture and mathematics, and of regular field reports on her activity as co-director of the North Kharga Oasis Survey, an archaeological project focusing on a chain of Late-Roman military installations in the Kharga Oasis (Egypt’s Western Desert). She currently works at the Collegio di Milano.
Jane Rowlandson is currently Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Classics, King’s College London, where she was formerly Reader in Ancient History until retiring due to ill health. She is author of Landowners and Tenants in Roman Egypt (1996), edited Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Sourcebook (1998), and has written articles on many aspects of GraecoRoman Egypt.
Edna R. Russmann is a Curator of Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Middle Eastern Art at the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York. She received her PhD in Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Her career has included curatorial work in all the major American collections of Egyptian art, as well as university teaching. She has written numerous articles on ancient Egyptian art and several books.
Kim Ryholt is Associate Professor of Egyptology at the University of Copenhagen and specializes in ancient Egyptian history and literature. He studied at the University of Copenhagen, Freie Univer-sitat Berlin, and Julius-Maximillians Uni-versitat Wtirzburg. He is currently director of the research center, Canon and Identity Formation in the Earliest Literature Societies, and is also in charge of the Papyrus Carlsberg Collection.
Hourig Sourouzian specializes in Egyptian sculpture, working since 1974 with missions of the German, French, and
Swiss Institutes throughout Egypt, and is currently Director of the Colossi of Memnon and Amenhotep III Temple Conservation Project. She is a Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute and has been a guest professor at the American University in Cairo and universities in Munich, Vienna, and Paris. She is co-author of the Cairo Museum’s Catalogue and author of numerous articles on Egyptian Art and Archaeology.
Anthony J. Spalinger is currently Professor of Ancient History (Egyptology) at the University of Auckland. His recent full-length works include War in Ancient Egypt: The New Kingdom (Blackwell, 2004), Five Views on Egypt. (University of Gottingen: Gottingen, Studia mono-graphica 6, 2006), and The Great Dedicatory Inscription of Ramesses II: A Solar-Osirian Tractate at Abydos (Brill; in press). At present his major projects are connected with ‘‘Icons of Power’’ and the interlacing of Icon and Narrative in Ancient Egyptian pictorial representations.
Neal Spencer is a Curator in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum, with responsibility for the collections of the Late Period and Ptolemaic era. In addition to research on aspects of Late Period temples, he directs fieldwork projects at Kom Firin (western Nile Delta) and Amara West (northern Sudan).
Kasia Szpakowska is a Senior Lecturer in Egyptology at Swansea University. Her research focuses on personal religious practice in Egypt and its manifestation in the Near East, as well as daily life in the Pharaonic period. Her publications include Behind Closed Eyes: Dreams and Nightmares in Ancient Egypt and Daily Life in Ancient Egypt: Recreating Lahun, and the edited volumes Through a Glass Darkly: Magic, Dreams and
Prophecy in Ancient Egypt and Egyptian Stories: A British Egyptological Tribute to Alan B. Lloyd.
Thelma K. Thomas is Associate Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University where she teaches courses on Late Antique, Byzantine, and Eastern Christian art and material culture. Much of her research involves artistic expression of personal, social, and cultural identity, as well as questions and problems raised through close consideration of art history writing. Current projects focus on textiles and dress in Late Antique Egypt.
Katelijn Vandorpe obtained her PhD in 1992 and is now Professor of Ancient History at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Her main research field is Graeco-Roman Egypt, and her publications include editions ofGreek and Demotic papyri as well as studies on toponymy, onomastics, and socio-economic aspects of this multi-cultural society.
Helen Whitehouse is Curator of the Egyptian and Nubian collections in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Her particular areas of interest are Early Dynastic Egypt, the graphic arts of Roman Egypt, drawings after the antique, and the postclassical reception of Egyptian antiquities. Since 1995 she has worked on the recording of Roman wall-paintings on site with the Dakhla Oasis Project.
Toby Wilkinson is a Fellow of Clare College, University of Cambridge, and an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology, University of Durham. He specializes in the prehistory and early history of Pharaonic Egypt and has published, inter alia, Early Dynastic Egypt (1999) and Genesis of the Pharaohs
(2003).
Harco Willems studied Egyptology at Leiden University and graduated with the publication of a Middle Kingdom coffin at Groningen University. He is currently full professor in Egyptology at Leuven University. He has participated in archaeological work in the Dakhla Oasis, has directed the mission to the Roman temple of Shanhur, and is currently responsible for the Belgian Mission to Deir el-Bersha and Sheikh Said.
Penelope Wilson studied Egyptology at Liverpool University, and her PhD was devoted to a study of the Ptolemaic Texts in Edfu Temple (Wilson, 1997). She has worked in the Department of Antiquities in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and is now Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology at Durham University. She has excavated in Egypt for some twenty-five years at sites including the Temple of Abydos and Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham and is currently Field Director of the Egypt Exploration Society/Durham University Mission at Sais (Sa el-Hagar).
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