The archaeological portion of our program is now headed by Prof. Willeke Wendrich who has recently been excavating at Berenike, Egypt. In addition to our permanent faculty , this year's visiting scholar Dr. Gilles Roulin, has been working on the Books of the Netherworld, and is now investigating personal piety formulae on New Kingdom scarabs. We welcome his archaeological and literary expertise to the program. In the past we have had the pleasure of hosting international faculty, including Prof. Daniel Polz, whose research interests include New Kingdom social history and theoretical archaeology, and who is now the Associate Director of the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo. The department has enjoyed the expertise of scholars such as Dr. Thomas Ritter and Dr. Monica Bontty, as lecturers in ancient Egyptian languages.
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