Faculty research interests include Egyptian language, religion, warfare, and kingship; Mesopotamian literary and scholarly texts, history, divination, medicine, and science; the archaeology and languages of ancient Turkey; the relationship between text and archaeology; the study of calendars and chronology; and, the history of astronomy, astrology, and the related sciences in the ancient world. In addition, department faculty direct archaeological projects at the sites of Abydos in Egypt, Uronarti in the Sudan, and Labraunda in Turkey.
Department of Egyptology and Assyriology
Faculty and Staff
Faculty
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James P. Allen
Wilbour Hall, 201
2 Prospect StreetResearch Interests Ancient Egyptian Grammar and LiteratureOffice Hours By Appointment: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays 9-1; Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11-1 -
Christelle Alvarez
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Assistant Professor of EgyptologyWilbour Hall, 205
2 Prospect StreetAreas of Expertise Ancient Egyptian Grammar and LiteratureOffice Hours Wednesdays and Fridays 2-3 or by appointment -
Laurel Bestock
Associate Professor of Archaeology, Associate Professor of Egyptology & AssyriologyRI Hall, 101
60 George StreetResearch Interests Ancient Egypt and SudanOffice Hours Thursday, 10-noon -
Felipe Rojas-Silva
Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor of Archaeology, Associate Professor of Egyptology & AssyriologyRI Hall, 212
60 George StreetResearch Interests Archaeology, Ancient Anatolia -
Matthew Rutz
(Sabbatical Leave - Spring 2023) Department Chair , Associate Professor of Egyptology & AssyriologyWilbour Hall, 204
2 Prospect StreetResearch Interests Assyriology, Epigraphy, AkkadianOffice Hours Monday and Friday, 1:30-2:30 -
John Steele
Interim Department Chair (Spring 2023), Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in AntiquityWilbour Hall, 203
2 Prospect StreetResearch Interests Assyriology, History of ScienceOffice Hours Tuesdays 10-11 AM
Emeritus Faculty
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Leo Depuydt
Professor of Egyptology & Assyriology -
Leonard H. Lesko
Charles Edwin Wilbour Professor Emeritus of Egyptology
Staff
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Sara Wintz
Wilbour Hall 202