Professor of Egyptology
About
Current research interests:
I work on a wide range of subjects relating to how people lived in ancient Egypt from the later Pharaonic period through the Graeco-Roman periods (roughly 1000 BCE-500 CE)—how people interacted with each other, how they experienced their natural and constructed environments and how they understood the world they lived in.
Current projects:
I'm currently working on a book tentatively titled "Egyptian Anxieties: Living in an Age of Oracles", in which I examine the worries and fears of Egyptians of the early first millennium BCE through a variety of sources. Longer-range research includes a project on the roles and uses of fire in ancient Egypt, and an exploration of the sonic environments of ancient Egypt.
