Marjorie Fisher

Marjorie Fisher is adjunct Assistant Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Middle East Studies at the University of Michigan. Dr. Fisher holds an MA in Egyptology from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD in Egyptology from the University of Michigan.  She is the author of the two-volume publication The Sons of Ramesses II and co-lead editor of Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile (Prose Award for Archaeology and Anthropology 2012). She has published numerous articles on ancient Egyptian New Kingdom art and architecture, royal children and the political history of the Ramesside Period. Dr. Fisher is Associate Director for Epigraphy for the University of Michigan Abydos Middle Cemetery Project and has also participated in archaeological excavations in the Valley of the Kings with Dr. Zahi Hawass and Dr. Kent Weeks and the Theban Mapping Project and in epigraphic work at Luxor Temple with the Epigraphic Survey of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (based at Chicago House, Luxor). She is a Member of the National Council of the Humanities, the Advisory Board to the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Member of the James Madison Council of the Library of Congress, the Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Department’s Advisory Council; and the University of Michigan’s President’s Advisory Group.  She is Vice-Chair of the Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation; Co-Chair and Co-Founder of the Friends of Middle East Studies at the University of Michigan; and Life Advisory Council Member of the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.

Research Areas:

·         New Kingdom Period

·         Ancient Nubia

Fields of Study:

·         Ancient Egyptian Language

·         Ancient Egyptian History

·         Epigraphy