Notes on Contributors
Rowida AboBakr Mohamed Fawzy is a lecturer of Coptic language at the faculty of archaeology at Luxor University. She has presented the following papers at conferences both within and outside of Egypt: “A rare Coptic legal exercise: O. TT157 Inv.478/1”; “She abandoned her husband: The marital issues in Coptic Thebes’ society: O. Copt.Cair. 4530.88”; “
Chana Algarvio is a Sessional Instructional Assistant and Assistant Librarian at the University of Toronto, as well as the Program Coordinator for the Book History & Print Culture Collaborative Specialization. She holds an MA (Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations) and MI (Library Science & BHPC) from the University of Toronto. Trained as an Egyptologist, rare book librarian, and book historian, her research interests lie in fostering interdisciplinary communication between these fields to ensure each is aware of the benefits and realities of the other by primarily dispelling Westerncentric misconceptions. She additionally focuses on iconographic studies and cross-cultural relations between Egypt and Western Asia.
Kathryn E. Bandy currently serves as a lecturer in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at The University of Chicago and received her PhD from The University of Chicago in 2016. Her research interests include urban and regional administration, labor organization, and the materiality of writing, focusing on the Middle Kingdom through mid-18th Dynasty. She is currently working on the publication of the hieratic ostraca from Tell Edfu.
Roberto Antonio Díaz Hernández was born in 1982 in Salamanca, where he completed his primary degree (licenciatura) in History in 2004, after which he gained his Magister Artium degree in Egyptology and Arabic Studies at the University of Leipzig (2004–2009), and went on to do his PhD with a thesis on the language of Middle Kingdom biographical and literary texts under the supervision of Prof. Wolfgang Schenkel (2009–2013) at the University of Tübingen. He worked as a postgraduate trainee at the Castle Museum in Jever (2013–2014), the State Museum of Egyptian Art in Munich (2015–2016) and the State Collections of Antiquities and Glyptothek (2016–2017) also in Munich, and as a research assistant in the Volkswagen-Project “Cosmogony and Theology of Hermopolis Magna” (2017–2018) at the Institute of Egyptology and Coptic Studies of the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, where he also taught Middle Egyptian until 2021. He was a Fellow of the Gerda Henkel Foundation in 2022, working on the publication of Sarenput I’s biographical tomb inscriptions from Qubbet el-Hawa. He is currently Junior Professor and Head of the project “Nile in Contact” at the University of Jaén.
Amr El Hawary has been teaching Egyptology at the Universities of Bonn and Cairo since 2006. He is the holder of the Simpson professorship of Egyptology at the American University Cairo, Venia legendi in Egyptology at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelm University of Bonn, visiting Professor of Egyptian Languages and Religion at Cairo University, and Fellow of the Annemarie-Schimmel-Kolleg for Mamluk studies in Bonn. He is also the co-director of the Serabit El-Khadim excavation, Sinai, and of the epigraphic survey project of Qubet el Hawa, Assuan. He published the comprehensive edition of the Memphite Philosophy with philological comments and socio-cultural analyses (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 243, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010), as well as many other books and articles dealing with Ancient Egyptian religion, art, and literature. Focusing on Egyptian intellectual history and the history of science and philosophy, he is soon finishing an extensive monograph on ancient Egyptian epistemology and philosophy of language.
Jacqueline E. Jay Ph.D. (2008, University of Chicago), is Professor of History at Eastern Kentucky University. In addition to her work on ancient Egyptian literature, her current research projects focus on women in the ancient world and the publication of Demotic ostraca and graffiti.
Émil Joubert graduated from the French École nationale des chartes and Sorbonne University, is actually postdoctoral researcher at Liège University.
Judith Jurjens (see Notes on Editors).
Jordan Miller D.Phil. (2022), University of Oxford, is a Research Associate at the Faculty of Classics, Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, and College Research Associate at St John’s College, University of Cambridge. He has published on Egyptian religion, material culture, and writing practices. As a member of the VIEWS project (Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems), he is currently investigating how visual aspects of Egyptian and Maya hieroglyphic writing systems connect with understandings of images and bodies. From July 2025, he will be Assistant Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University.
Ahmed Osman is a current PhD candidate in Egyptology at the University of Cologne. His research project studies multimodal communication in Middle Kingdom texts. Having an MSc in computer science and an MA in Egyptology and Coptology, Ahmed is fascinated by character encoding in both human and computer languages. His MA thesis proposed a methodological approach to utilize Egyptian colloquial Arabic as a source for ancient Egyptian linguistic analysis. He participated in the ‘Rethinking the visual aesthetics of ancient Egyptian writing’ conference in 2021 researching the determinatives of ancient Egyptian verbs štm and šnꜥ among others.
Leah Packard-Grams (B.A., Bryn Mawr College, M.A., UC Berkeley) is the graduate student researcher at the Center for Tebtunis Papyri, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley. She is currently pursuing her PhD via a dissertation on the Scribe X papyri through the interdisciplinary program in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology (AHMA).
Susanne Töpfer has been the curator responsible for the papyrus collection in the Museo Egizio since 2017. Graduating from Leipzig University in 2007, she subsequently obtained a PhD in Egyptology at Heidelberg University in 2013. Before joining the Museo Egizio, Susanne worked as a research assistant at the Egyptian Museum in Leipzig and on the ‘Book of the Dead Project’ at the University of Bonn (2007–2010). As a research and post-doctoral fellow at Heidelberg University (2010–2017) she edited various magical, lexical, and ritual texts from ancient Egypt and produced various publications on these topics.
Juliane Unger studied Egyptology at the University of Leipzig and received her master’s degree there for a re-examination of the medical text of papyrus Chester Beatty VI. She is currently working towards the completion of her PhD thesis at the University of Heidelberg, preparing the first edition of the medical papyrus Brooklyn 47.218.75+.86 and has already published several preliminary articles on this topic. Apart from ancient Egyptian medicine her research interests also comprise Egyptian flora and fauna, concepts of the natural and supernatural world as well as ancient weapons, fortresses, and warfare.