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 and exhibition about Hamzeh Carr, a pseudonymous artist who did archaeological illustration in Egypt in the 1920s, but who also had a career as a portrait painter, book illustrator and theatrical designer, a convert to Islam and a Theosophist, who also had strong connections to Cairo's lively, if discreet, expatriate gay community. I am also collecting evidence for transgender and non-binary gender identities in ancient Egypt for a projected future monograph.
