Curriculum Vitæ

PhD in (Egyptian) Archaeology

Title: Royal cities of the New Kingdom: A Spatial Analysis of Production and Socio-Economics in Late Bronze Age Egypt

University of Liverpool, School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology

M.A. in Egyptology and Classical Archaeology:

Thesis in Egyptology: Die Endphase der Ramsesstadt: Die Bedeutung und Geschichte der Stadt in der späten Ramessidenzeit (The final phase of Per-Ramesses: The significance and history of this city during the late Ramesside Period)

M.St. in Oriental Studies by research:

Theses:

• The Representation of the Hittite people in Ancient Egyptian Art
• The Scribe Statue of Amenhotep (Oxford, Ashmolean Museum 1913.163)

University of Oxford, The Queen’s College

Researcher (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) in Egyptology

Analysis and publication of domestic workshop site M40.14-16 at Amarna. Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Freie Universität Berlin

Stand-in Professor (Lehrstuhlvertretung) for Egyptology

Teaching cover (5 classes, BA and MA level), administrative duties (in charge of MA programme and ERASMUS): winter semester 2020-21.

Freie Universität Berlin

Guest Researcher (Gastwissenschaftlerin)

Researcher on urban domestic industries at Amarna.

Freie Universität Berlin

Stand-in Professor (Lehrstuhlvertretung) for Egyptology

Teaching cover (4 classes, BA and MA level), administrative duties (in charge of MA programme and ERASMUS): summer semester 2019.

Freie Universität Berlin

Guest Researcher (Gastwissenschaftlerin)

Researcher on glass objects from Amarna.

Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Amarna Project

Post-doctoral Research Fellow

Project: KOBALT: “Chaîne opératoire” des beliebten blauen Farbstoffes im Neuen Reich Ägyptens.

Freie Universität Berlin, Excellence cluster TOPOI / Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Amarna Project

Marie Curie Post-doctoral Research Fellow

Project: The Glass, Faience and Food in Late Bronze Age Societies: An Analysis of the Socio-Economics of Urban Industries in Egyptian and Mesopotamian settlements; see also here.

Freie Universität Berlin, Excellence cluster TOPOI / Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Amarna Project

Post-doctoral Research Fellow

Processing of glass jewellery from the ancient Egyptian New Kingdom (photography, illustration, database work) and design and execution of a research project on glass ear-studs.

The British Museum Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, London, UK

Supervisor: Geomatics and Archaeologist

• GIS work, with a specialisation in open source GIS applications (gvSIG, Quantum GIS, PostGIS, GRASS). CAD work.
• Visualisation and analysis of archaeological raster and vector data.
• Database (PostgreSQL, MS Access) and research work, data collection and map regression.
• Illustration work (Inkscape, Adobe Illustrator).
• Documentation of methodologies, production of manuals and staff training in survey (Leica 400, 700, 800 and 1200, series total station, Leica 1200 series GPS) and open source GIS (workshops taught to groups of staff in different offices throughout the UK).
• Fieldwork: Site survey, initial set out, excavation and recording in the UK and France.

Oxford Archaeology, Janus House, Osney Mead, Oxford OX20ES
Oxford Archaeology North, Mill 3, Moor Lane, Lancaster, LA1 1GF

Archaeologist at Wessex Archaeology:

Excavation and recording, site survey in the UK

Wessex Archaeology, Portway House, Old Sarum Park, Salisbury, SP4 6EB

The Egypt Exploration Society: Fieldwork and Research Grant

Grant for two season of post-excavation analysis and publication of the material excavated at Amarna M50.14-16.

The Egypt Exploration Society, London, UK

The Egypt Exploration Society: Fieldwork and Research Grant

Grants for a second season of excavation at Amarna M50.14-16 and for a trial of chemical analysis of glass from Amarna by handheld XRF.

The Egypt Exploration Society, London, UK

The Rakow Grant

Grant for the re-excavation of a potential glass-kiln at houses M50.14-16 at Amarna in October and November 2014.

Corning Museum of Glass, New York State, USA

The G. A. Wainwright Fund

Grant for the re-excavation of a potential glass-kiln at houses M50.14-16 at Amarna in October and November 2014.

The Griffith Institute, University of Oxford, UK

The Association for the History of Glass

Grant for the re-excavation of a potential glass-kiln at houses M50.14-16 at Amarna in October and November 2014.

The Association for the History of Glass, London, UK

The Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society

Grant for the re-excavation of a potential glass-kiln at houses M50.14-16 at Amarna in October and November 2014.

The Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society, Berkshire, UK

UCLA speaker's honorarium

Lectures presented on the site of Gurob and Late Bronze Age Egyptian industries.

University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Departmental travel awards

Travel costs for fieldwork in Egypt, conference fees, accommodation and travel in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, UK

Prize for second-best paper

The Third Open Source GIS Conference.

University of Nottingham, UK

University Lecturer

Theorie und Interpretation in der Ägyptischen Archäologie

Day School – GIS for Archaeologists

Teching of basic skills in geographical information systems (GIS) for archaeologists using open source software QGIS.

The University of Liverpool, UK

International and Interdisciplinary Workshop

Approaches in the Analysis of Production at Archaeological Sites

Tell el-Amarna Glass Analysis

On-site analysis, by portable x-ray fluorescence, of c.600 objects from glass, faience and ceramics.

The Amarna Project

Tell el-Amarna: Buildings M50.14-16

Direction of the excavation of a domestic glass- and faience workshop in the Main City: fund-raising, organisation of the fieldwork, post-excavation analysis and publication.

The Amarna Project

Tell el-Amarna: Glass Bead Making at Amarna

Design of a small pit furnace based on archaeological evidence from Amarna, firing and manufacture of beads from raw (modern) glass. See here.

The Amarna Project

Tell el-Amarna: The Great Aten Temple

Archaeological supervision, excavation, recording and report-writing.

The Amarna Trust, The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge

The Gurob Harem Palace Project

Excavation within the industrial area (kilns), site supervision, recording and report-writing, Total Station and GPS survey, GIS and post-excavation analysis. Webmaster for project website.

School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool
Institute of Archaeology, 31 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PY; www.gurob.org.uk

Qantir/Pi-Ramesse

Fieldwork at site QVII, and post-excavation, object analysis, illustration and publication.

Roemer- und Pelizaeus Museum, Am Steine 1-2, 31134 Hildesheim, Germany

Portable x-ray fluorescence: Analysis of glass from Amarna:

Chemical analysis using a portable X-Ray fluorescence device (Niton™ XL3t GOLDD+ XRF Analyzer - Thermo Fisher Scientific). Data evaluation by database and GIS application. Pilot study for work at Amarna.

Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin

Portable x-ray fluorescence: Analysis of glass at Amarna:

Portable ED-XRF Spectrometer (PXRF) - ELIO – XGLAB (ongoing), data evaluation using PyMCA.

The Amarna Project

ProFiL (Professionalisierung von Frauen in Lehre und Forschung)

Participation in personal mentoring sessions, seminars and training sessions on issues of specific interest to academics and strategic networking.

Technische Universität, Humboldt-Universität, and Freie Universität Berlin

Volunteer at Bolton Museum and Aquarium

Cataloguing of objects and design of the exhibition Egyptomania

Bolton Museum and Archive Service, Le Mans Crescent, Bolton, BL1 1SE

Work experience at the Roemer- und Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim

Re-design of displays of objects and library research while planning a display on Late Period Egypt.

Roemer- und Pelizaeus Museum, Am Steine 1-2, 31134 Hildesheim, Germany

Member, Egypt Exploration Society

Member, International Association of Egyptologists

Member, Association for the History of Glass

Member, The Society for Archaeological Sciences

Modern Languages

English and German: Bilingual

French: fluent

Egyptian Arabic: good working knowledge

Italian: working knowledge

Ancient Languages

Middle, Old and Late Egyptian: Hieroglyphs and Hieratic

Latin: Latinum

Coptic: basic working knowledge

Ancient Greek: basic working knowledge

Akkadian: basic working knowledge