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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Christelle Alvarez
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Assistant Professor of EgyptologyWilbour Hall, 205
2 Prospect StreetOffice Hours Wednesdays and Fridays 2-3 or by appointment -
Laurel Bestock
Associate Professor of Archaeology, Associate Professor of Egyptology & AssyriologyRI Hall, 101
60 George StreetOffice Hours Wednesdays 1-3 p.m. by appointment -
Felipe Rojas-Silva
On Leave - Fall 2023, Associate Professor of Archaeology, Associate Professor of Egyptology & AssyriologyRI Hall, 212
60 George Street -
Matthew Rutz
Department Chair, Associate Professor of Egyptology & AssyriologyWilbour Hall, 201
2 Prospect StreetOffice Hours Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:30-2:30 -
John Steele
Director of Graduate Studies, Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity, Charles Edwin Wilbour Professor of Egyptology and AssyriologyWilbour Hall, 203
2 Prospect StreetOffice Hours Mondays 10-11 AM
Emeritus Faculty
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James P. Allen
Professor Emeritus of Egyptology -
Leo Depuydt
Professor Emeritus of Egyptology -
Leonard H. Lesko
Professor Emeritus of Egyptology
Staff
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Sara Wintz
Wilbour Hall 202