T. G. WILFONG
Professor of Egyptology and Curator for Graeco-Roman Egypt
Department of Near Eastern
Studies
The Kelsey
Museum of Archaeology
The University of Michigan
The University of Michigan
202 South Thayer,
#4016
434 S. State Street
Ann Arbor MI 48104
USA
Ann Arbor MI 48109-1390 USA
https://umich.academia.edu/TGWilfong
EDUCATION
University of Arizona 9/83 - 5/85
University of Chicago 9/85 - 12/94: B. A. (6/87); M. A. (12/89); Ph. D.
in Egyptology, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (12/94).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CURRENT
Curator for Graeco-Roman Egypt, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, and Professor of
Egyptology, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan
(2013-present).
PREVIOUS
Associate Curator for Graeco-Roman Egypt, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, and
Associate Professor of Egyptology, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University
of Michigan (2003-2013).
Assistant Curator for Graeco-Roman Egypt, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology,
(1995-2003) and Assistant Professor of Egyptology (1997-2003), Department of
Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan.
Visiting Assistant Curator, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology (1994-1995), Lecturer
II (1995-1997) and Visiting Assistant Professor (1994-1995), Department of Near
Eastern Studies University of Michigan.
Assistant Archivist, The Oriental Institute Research Archives, University of
Chicago, 1986-1994.
Archivist and Bibliographer, Estate of Klaus Baer and the Oriental Institute,
University of Chicago, for preparation of catalogues of Baer library and
Egyptological papers, 1987-1989.
PUBLICATIONS
MONOGRAPHS: Published:
Death
Dogs: The Jackal Gods of Ancient Egypt, Kelsey Museum
Publication 11 (Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, 2015).
Life,
Death and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt: The Coffin of Djehutymose in the Kelsey
Museum of Archaeology, Kelsey Museum Publication 9 (Ann Arbor:
Kelsey Museum Publications, 2013).
Women of
Jeme: Lives in a Coptic Town in Late Antique Egypt, New Texts
from Ancient Cultures (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002).
MULTIPLE-AUTHOR MONOGRAPHS AND EDITED
VOLUMES
Karanis
Revealed: Discovering the Past and Present of a Michigan
Excavation in Egypt, editor, with the assistance of Andrew W.
S. Ferrara, Kelsey Museum Publication 7 (Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum Publications,
2014).
Proceedings of the 25th International
Congress of Papyrology, ed. Traianos Gagos, assistant ed. Adam
Hyatt, additional editors Arthur Verhoogt and T. G. Wilfong, American Studies
in Papyrology Special Edition (Ann Arbor: Scholarly Publishing Office,
University of Michigan Library and American Society of Papyrologists, 2010),
online version at: <http://quod.lib.umich.edu/i/icp/>.
Checklist
of Editions of Greek, Latin, Demotic and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca and Tablets,
Fifth Edition, by John F. Oates, Roger S. Bagnall, Sarah J. Clackson, Alexandra
A. O'Brien, Joshua D. Sosin, T. G. Wilfong and Klaas A. Worp, Bulletin of the
American Society of Papyrologists Supplements 9 (n.p., American Society of
Papyrologists, 2001).
Bir Umm
Fawakhir Survey Project 1993: A Byzantine Gold-Mining Town in Egypt,
by Carol Meyer, Lisa A. Heidorn, Walter E. Kaegi and T. Wilfong, Oriental
Institute Communications 28 (Chicago: Oriental Institute, 2000).
Women and
Society in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Sourcebook, edited by
Jane Rowlandson with the collaboration of Roger Bagnall, Alan Bowman, Willy
Clarysse, Ann Ellis Hanson, Deborah Hobson, James Keenan, Peter van Minnen,
Dominic Rathbone, Dorothy J. Thompson and T. G. Wilfong (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1998).
Women and Gender in Ancient Egypt: From Prehistory
to Late Antiquity. An Exhibition at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology,
with contributions by various authors (Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology,
1997).
Preserving Eternity: Modern Goals, Ancient
Intentions. Egyptian Funerary Artifacts in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology,
edited and written by Janet E. Richards and T. G. Wilfong, with contributions
by various authors (Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, 1995).
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS: In
Press:
"A Saite Family Burial Assemblage from Nag el-Hassiya in the Kelsey Museum
of Archaeology," in Essays for the
Library of Seshat: Studies Presented to Janet H. Johnson on the Occasion of her
70th Birthday, ed. R. K. Ritner (Chicago: Oriental Institute Press,
2015).
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS:
Published:
"The Sonic Landscape of Karanis: Excavating the Sounds of Roman
Egypt," in T. G. Wilfong , ed., with the assistance of Andrew W. S.
Ferrara., Karanis
Revealed: Discovering the Past
and Present of a Michigan Excavation in Egypt, Kelsey Museum
Publication 7 (Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum Publications, 2014): 169-177.
"Silent Movies from the Michigan Expedition to Egypt," in T. G.
Wilfong , ed., with the assistance of Andrew W. S. Ferrara., Karanis
Revealed: Discovering the Past
and Present of a Michigan Excavation in Egypt, Kelsey Museum
Publication 7 (Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum Publications, 2014): 25-34.
"Notes on Three Archival Sources for the Michigan Karanis
Excavations," in T. G. Wilfong , ed., with the assistance of Andrew W. S.
Ferrara., Karanis
Revealed: Discovering the Past and Present of a Michigan
Excavation in Egypt, Kelsey Museum Publication 7 (Ann Arbor:
Kelsey Museum Publications, 2014): 15-23.
"Karanis Revealed: Artifacts from the Exhibition," with Andrew W. S.
Ferrara, in T. G. Wilfong , ed., with the assistance of Andrew W. S. Ferrara., Karanis
Revealed: Discovering the Past
and Present of a Michigan Excavation in Egypt, Kelsey Museum
Publication 7 (Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum Publications, 2014): 47-120
"The Oracular Amuletic Decrees: A Question of Length," Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 99 (2013)
295-300.
“Kelsey Contemporaries,” Kelsey Museum of
Archaeology Newsletter (Spring 2013) 3.
“Dig Dogs and Camp Cats at Karanis: The Animals of the 1924-1935 University of
Michigan Expedition to Egypt,” in B. J. Collins and P. Michalowski, eds., Beyond Hatti: A
Tribute to Gary Beckman (Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2013)
325-341.
"A Saite Book of the Dead Fragment in the Kelsey Museum of
Archaeology," in R. Ast, H. Cuvigny, T. M. Hickey and J. Lougovaya, eds., American
Studies in Papyrology 53: Papyrological
Texts in Honor of Roger S. Bagnall, American Studies in
Papyrology 53 (Durham NC: American Society of Papyrologists, 2012) 325-330.
"Medinet Habu, Djeme," in The Encyclopedia of Ancient History,
eds. Roger S. Bagnall, et al (New York: Wiley, 2012): 4393-4395.
"The University of Michigan Excavation of Karanis (1924-1935): Images from
the Kelsey Museum Photographic Archives" for The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt,
ed. Christina Riggs (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012): 233-243.
"Introduction" in John Kannenberg, Hours of Infinity: Recording the Imperfect
Eternal, Kelsey Museum Publication 8 (Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum
of Archaeology, 2012): 9.
"John of Nikiou," "Nectanebo II," "Shenoute," in Dictionary of
African Biography, eds. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Emmanuel K.
Akyeampong (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011); Online publication at
<http://www.oxford-africanbiography.com>.
"Coptic," in C. Woods, ed., Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the
Ancient Middle East and Beyond, Oriental Institute Museum
Publication 32 (Chicago: Oriental Institute Publications, 2010) 179-182.
"A New Text from Frange in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology," in Monastic Estates in
Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt. Ostraca, Papyri and Studies in Honour of
Sarah Clackson, ed. J. Clackson, P. Sijpesteijn and A.
Boud'hors, American Studies in Papyrology 46 (American Society of
Papyrologists, 2009) 49-51.
"Gender in Ancient Egypt," in Egyptian Archaeology, ed. Willeke
Wendrich, Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009)
164-179.
"Two Shabtis of Pinudjem II, High Priest of Amun," Bulletin of the University of Michigan Museums of Art
and Archaeology 17 (2007-2008) 86-89.
"A Coptic Account of Pottery from the Kilns of Psabt," Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
45 (2008) 231-243.
"Gender and Sexuality," in The Egyptian World, ed. Toby
Wilkinson (London: Routledge, 2007) 205-217.
"Gender and Society in Byzantine Egypt," in Egypt in the
Byzantine World 300-700, ed. Roger S. Bagnall (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2007) 309-327.
"Coptic Papyrology 2000-2004," in Huitième
congrès international d'études coptes (Paris 2004): I. Bilans et perspectives
2000-2004, ed. A. Boud'hors and D. Vaillancourt, Cahiers de la
Bibliothèque copte 15 (Paris 2006) 321-336.
"Abu Nuwas," "al-Jahiz," "Susann, Jacqueline"
(with Dominic Montserrat) in Gaetan Brulotte and John Philips, eds., The Encyclopedia of
Erotic Literature (New York: Routledge, 2006) 1:3-4, 1:677-679,
2:1264-1266.
"The Reply of Jesus to King Abgar: A Coptic New Testament Apocryphon
Reconsidered (P.Mich. inv. 6213)" [with Kevin P. Sullivan], Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
42 (2005) 107-123.
"Two Coptic Tax Receipts from Jeme in the Kelsey Museum," Bulletin of the University of Michigan Museums of Art
and Archaeology 15 (2003-2004) [2005] 88-91.
"Preface to the Second Edition" in Karanis:
An Egyptian Town in Roman Times, by Elaine K. Gazda, second ed.,
Kelsey Museum Publication 1 (Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, 2004)
v-vii.
"Music and Musical Instruments," in The Seventy Great Inventions of the
Ancient World, ed. Brian Fagan (London: Thames & Hudson,
2004) 220-224.
"New Texts in Familiar Hands: Unpublished Michigan Coptic Ostraca by Known
Scribes,"in Coptic Studies on the Threshold of a New
Millennium: Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Coptic Studies,
ed. Mat Immerseel and J. van der Vliet, Orientalia Lovanensia Analecta 133
(Leuven: Peeters, 2004) I: 551-557.
"Christian Monasticism and Pilgrimage in Northern Egypt" and
"Hermonthis (Armant)" in Egypt from Alexander to the Copts: An
Archaeological and Historical Guide, general editors Roger S.
Bagnall and Dominic R. Rathbone (London: British Museum Press, 2004) 107-126,
207-208.
"Women's Things and Men's Things: Notes on Gender and Property at
Jeme," Bulletin of the American
Society of Papyrologists 40 (2003) 213-221.
"Sarah J. Clackson" [obituary notice], Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 40 (2003)
7-10.
"Stamps and Seal Impressions from the Post-Pharaonic Period" in Scarabs, Scaraboids,
Seals and Seal Impressions from Medinet Habu, Based on notes of Uvo Holscher
and Rudolf Anthes, Excavations at Medinet Habu VI, by Emily Teeter, Oriental Institute
Publications 118 (Chicago: Oriental Institute Press, 2003) 199-224.
"'Friendship and physical desire': The discourse of female homoeroticism
in fifth century CE Egypt," in Among Women: from the Homosocial to the
Homoerotic in the Ancient World, eds. Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
and Lisa Auanger (Austin TX: University of Texas Press, 2002) 304-329.
"Three Mummy Labels in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology," in Essays and Texts in Honor of J. David Thomas,
eds. Traianos Gagos and Roger Bagnall, American Studies in Papyrology 42 (n.p.,
American Society of Papyrologists, 2001) 167-170.
"Coptic Literature," "Faiyum," "Intoxication,"
"Journals," "Marriage and Divorce," and
"Oxyrhynchus" in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt,
ed. Donald B. Redford (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001) I:294-302,
496-498, II:179-182, 209-211, 340-345, 623-624.
"Map 80: Coptos-Berenike" [with James G. Keenan and Steven
Sidebotham; map and text], in The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World,
ed. Richard A. Talbert (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000): Map 80 in
the atlas volume and pages 1170-1180 in the text volume (= file
"BATL080_.PDF" on the CD-ROM version).
"Synchronous Menstruation and the 'Place of Women' in Ancient Egypt
(Hieratic Ostracon Oriental Institute Museum 13512)" in Gold of
Praise: Studies on Ancient Egypt in Honor of Edward F. Wente,
eds. Emily Teeter and John Larson, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 58
(Chicago: Oriental Institute Press, 2000) 419-34.
"Fayum, Graeco-Roman Sites," in Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt,
ed. Kathryn A. Bard (New York: Routledge, 1999) 308-313.
"Agriculture among the Christian Population in Early Islamic Egypt: Theory
and Practice," Proceedings of the
British Academy 96 (1998) 217-235 [also published as Agriculture in Egypt from Pharaonic to Modern Times,
eds. Alan K. Bowman and Eugene Rogan (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the
British Academy 1998)].
"The Non-Muslim Communities: The Christians" in The Cambridge
History of Egypt I: Islamic Egypt: From the Arab Invasion to the Ottoman
Conquest (641-1517), ed. Carl F. Petry (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1998) 175-197, 562-569.
"Constantine in Coptic: Coptic Constructions of Constantine the Great and
his Family" in Constantine: History, Historiography and Legend,
eds. Dominic Montserrat and Samuel Lieu (London: Routledge, 1998) 177-188.
"Allen P. Wikgren" [obituary notice], Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
35 (1998) 123-124.
"Reading the Disjointed Body in Coptic: From physical modification to textual
fragmentation," in Changing Bodies, Changing Meanings: Studies on
the Human Body in Antiquity, ed. Dominic Montserrat (London:
Routledge, 1998) 116-36.
"Coptic (Language and Literature)" and "Oxyrhynchus Papyri"
in The
Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, ed. Eric
M. Meyers (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997) 2:65-67, 4:195-196.
"Elinor Mullett Husselman" [obituary notice and bibliography], Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
33 (1996) 5-10.
"The Coptic Story of Theodosios and Dionysios," in P. Michigan Koenen (P.Mich. XVIII): Michigan Texts
Published in Honor of Ludwig Koenen, ed. Cornelia Römer and
Traianos Gagos, Studia Amstelodamensia ad Epigraphicam, Ius Antiquum et
Papyrologicam Pertinentia, 36 (Amsterdam: Gieben, 1996) 351-56.
"Faiyum: Roman and Coptic Periods" and "Kircher,
Athanasius" in The Dictionary of Art,
ed. Jane Shoaf Turner (New York: Grove, 1996) 10:759-60, 18:76-77.
"Elinor Mullett Husselman" and "Elizabeth Stefanski" in
"Breaking Ground: Women in Old World Archaeology", ed. Martha Sharp
Joukowsky, Brown University; articles completed 1996, online 2003:
<http://www.brown.edu/Research/Breaking_Ground/bios/Husselman_Elinor%20Mullett.pdf>
and <http://www.brown.edu/Research/Breaking_Ground/bios/Stefanski_Elizabeth.pdf>.
"Mummy-Labels from the Oriental Institute Museum Excavation of Medinet
Habu," Bulletin of the American
Society of Papyrologists 32 (1995) 157-181.
[Contributions to] "Gold, Granite and Water: The University of Chicago
Oriental Institute Expedition to Bir Umm Fawakhir, 1992" by Carol Meyer, The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental
Research 52: Preliminary Excavation Reports: Sardis, Bir Umm Fawakhir, Tell el
Umeiri, The Combined Caesarea Expeditions and Tell Dothan, William
G. Dever, editor (n.p.: American Schools of Oriental Research, 1995) 37-92.
[Contributions to] The American Discovery
of Ancient Egypt, ed. Nancy Thomas (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County
Art Museum, 1995) 227-230.
"Women in the Ancient Near East: A Bibliographic Survey of Recent
Literature in the Oriental Institute Research Archives" [1995 on-line
interactive version of 1992 publication; html markup by Ross Scaife and Suzanne
Bonefas as part of the DIOTIMA Project], available online at:
<http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/WOMEN.HTML>.
"Coptic Texts in the Oriental Institute Museum: A Preliminary Survey"
in Acts of the Fifth International Congress
of Coptic Studies, Washington DC, 12-15 August 1992: Volume 2, Papers from the
Sections, Part 2, ed. David W. Johnson (Rome: CIM, 1993) 525-530.
"The Egyptological Papers of Klaus Baer," in For His Ka: Essays Offered in Memory of Klaus Baer,
ed. David Silverman, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization, 55 (Chicago:
Oriental Institute Press, 1992) 285-323.
"Greek and Coptic Texts in the Oriental Institute Museum from the
Exhibition 'Another Egypt'" Bulletin
of the American Society of Papyrologists 29 (1992):85-95.
"The Archive of a Family of Moneylenders from Jême," Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
27 (1990):169-81.
"A Concordance of Published Coptic and Greek Ostraca from the Oriental
Institute's Excavations at Medinet Habu," Enchoria: Zeitschrift für Demotistik und Koptologie 17
(1990) 155-60.
"Western Thebes in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries CE: A Bibliographic
Survey of Jeme and Environs," Bulletin
of the American Society of Papyrologists 26 (1989) 89-145.
REVIEW ARTICLE
"An Ancient Egyptian Woman: In Life, Afterlife and the Modern World,"
[review article on exhibition and catalogue The
Life of Meresamun (Chicago: Oriental Institute Museum, 2009)], American Journal of Archaeology 114
(2010): 357-364.
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Jitse Dijkstra, Philae and the
end of ancient Egyptian religion: a regional study of religious
transformation (298-642 CE) (Leuven 2008), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 47
(2010) 375-382.
Review of M. Smith, Traversing Eternity
(Oxford 2009), Bryn Mawr Classical Review
2010.02.72; available online at:
<http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2010/2010-02-72.html>.
Review of A. Boud'Hors, Ostraca grecs et
coptes des fouilles de Jean Maspero à Baouit (Cairo 2004), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 67: 3
(2008) 208-209.
Review of C. Heurtel, Les inscriptions
coptes et grecques du temple d'Hathor à Deir al-Médîna (Cairo
2004), Journal of Near Eastern Studies
67: 3 (2008) 207-208.
Review of G. Schmelz, Kirchliche Amtsträger
im Spätantiken Ägypten (München 2002), Bibliotheca Orientalis 62 (2005) 526-530.
Review of T. S. Richter, Rechtssemantik und
forensische Rhetorik (Leipzig 2002), Scripta Classica Israelica 24 (2005) 315-316.
Review of P. Vernus, Affairs and Scandals
in Ancient Egypt (Ithaca 2004), American
Journal of Archaeology 109 (2005) 298-299.
Review of S. J. Clackson, Coptic and Greek
Texts Relating to the Hermopolite Monastery of Apa Apollo (Oxford
2000), Bulletin of the American Society of
Papyrologists 40 (2003) 237-239.
Review of A. Biedenkopf-Ziehner, Koptische
Ostraka (Wiesbaden 2000), Bulletin
of the American Society of Papyrologists 40 (2003), 233-236.
Review of K. Mysliwiec, Twilight of Ancient
Egypt: First Millennium B.C.E. (Ithaca 2000), American Journal of Archaeology 106
(2002) 613-614.
Review of G. Wagner, Elephantine XIII: Les
papyrus et les ostraca grecs d'Elephantine (Mainz am Rhein 1998), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 61:2
(2002) 128-129.
Review of E. W. Lane, Description of Egypt,
edited by J. Thompson (Cairo 2000), Near
Eastern Archaeology 64:4 (2001) 219-220.
Review of I. Shaw and P. Nicholson, Ancient
Egyptian Materials and Technologies (Cambridge 2000), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
38 (2001) 157-159
Review of S. Gülden and I. Munro, Bibliographie
zum Altägyptischen Totenbuch (Wiesbaden 1998), Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt
38 (2001) 141-142.
Review of S. P. Brock and S. Ashbrook Harvey, Holy Women of the Syrian Orient, (Berkeley 1998), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 60:3
(2001) 204-205.
Review of G. Wurst, The Manichaean Coptic
Papyri in the Chester Beatty Library: Psalm Book, Part II, Fasc. 1: Die
Bema-Psalmen, Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum, Series Coptica I, Liber
Psalmorum Pars II, Fasc. 1 (Turnhout 1996), Journal
of Near Eastern Studies 60:3 (2001) 203-204.
Review of R. S. Bagnall, Egypt in Late
Antiquity (Princeton, 1993), Journal
of Near Eastern Studies 60:3 (2001) 201-203.
Review of E. Hornung, The Ancient Egyptian
Books of the Afterlife (Ithaca NY 1999), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 00.04.25
available online at: <http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2000/2000-04-25.html>
Review of B. Borg, «Der zierlichste Anblick
der Welt...»: Ägyptische Porträtmumien (Mainz am Rhein 1998), Journal of the American Oriental Society 120.4
(2000) 665.
Review of S. Cauville, Le Temple de
Dendara: Les chapelles osiriennes (Cairo 1997), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
36 (1999) 187-190.
Review of K. H. Kuhn and W. J. Tait, Thirteen
Coptic Acrostic Hymns from Manuscript M574 of the Pierpont Morgan Library
(Oxford 1996), Bulletin of the American
Society of Papyrologists 36 (1999) 183-186.
Review of L. Störk, Koptische Handschriften
2-3 (Stuttgart 1995-6), Journal
of Near Eastern Studies 58 (1999) 307-309.
Review of T. Hall Partrick, Traditional
Egyptian Christianity: A History of the Coptic Orthodox Church
(Greensboro NC 1996), Journal of Near
Eastern Studies 58 (1999) 216-217.
Review of L. Depuydt, Conjunction,
Contiguity, Contingency: On Relationships Between Events in the Egyptian and
Coptic Verbal Systems (Oxford, 1993), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 58 (1999) 130-131.
Review of G. Lapp, The Papyrus of Nu
(London 1997), Bulletin of the American
Society of Papyrologists 35 (1998) 111-112.
Review of M. Hasitzka, Ein neues Archiv
koptischer Ostraka (Wien 1995), Bulletin
of the American Society of Papyrologists 35 (1998) 113-116.
Review of B. A. Pearson, ed. Nag Hammadi
Codex VII (NHS and Manichaean Studies 30; Leiden, 1996), Catholic Biblical Quarterly 60 (1998)
377-378.
Review of G. Burkard, Spätzeitliche
Osiris-Liturgien im Corpus der Asasif-Papyri: Übersetzung, Kommentar, Formale
und inhaltliche Analyse (Wiesbaden 1995), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
34 (1997) 141-144.
Review of P. Grandet, Le Papyrus Harris I
(Le Caire 1994), Bulletin of the American
Society of Papyrologists 34 (1997) 137-140.
Review of W. Forman and S. Quirke, Hieroglyphs
and the Afterlife (London 1996), American
Journal of Archaeology 101 (1997) 406-7.
Review of R. S. Bagnall and B. M. Frier, The
Demography of Roman Egypt (Cambridge 1993) Journal of the American Oriental Society 117:1
(1997) 160-1.
Review of M. Waldstein and F.Wisse, The
Apocryphon of John: Synopsis of Nag Hammadi Codices II, 1; III, 1; and IV, 1
with BG 8502, 2 (NHS and Manichaean Studies 33; Leiden, 1995), Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 59 (1997)
179-180.
Review of C. Barry, La sagesse de
Jésus-Christ (BG, 3; NH III, 4) (Québec, 1993), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 56 (1997)
122-123.
Review of A. Gutbub, Kôm Ombo I: Les
inscriptions du naos (sanctuaires, salle de l'ennéade, salle des
offrandes, couloir mystéreieux) (Le Caire, 1995), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
33 (1996) 203-204.
Review of L. S. B. MacCoull, Studies in the
Christian East in Memory of Mirrit Boutros Ghali (Washington DC,
1995), Bulletin of the American Society of
Papyrologists 33 (1996) 205-206.
Review of R. Charron, Concordance des
Textes de Nag Hammadi: Le Codex VII, (Louvain, 1992) and P. Chérix,
Concordance des Textes de Nag Hammadi: Le
Codex VI, (Louvain, 1993), Journal
of Near Eastern Studies 55 (1996) 216-217.
Review of S. AbouZayd, Ihidayutha: A Study
of the Life of Singleness in the Syrian Orient. From Ignatius of Antioch to
Chalcedon 451 A.D. (Oxford, 1993), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 55 (1996) 220-221.
Review of W. Vycichl, La vocalisation de la
langue égyptienne, Tome Ier: La Phonétique (Le Caire, 1990), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 55 (1996)
221-223.
Review of A. Böhlig and C. Markschies, Gnosis
und Manichäismus: Forschungen und Studien zu Texten von Valentin und Mani sowie
zu den Bibliotheken von Nag Hammadi und Medinet Madi (Berlin/New
York, 1994), Catholic Biblical Quarterly 58
(1996) 179-81.
Review of The Encyclopedia of the Early
Church (Oxford, 1991), Journal
of Near Eastern Studies 55 (1996) 146.
Review of D. W. Young, Coptic Manuscripts
from the White Monastery: Works of Shenute (Wien 1993) and M. R. M.
Hasitzka, Koptisches Sammelbuch I (KSB I)
(Wien 1993), Bulletin of the American
Society of Papyrologists 32 (1995) 91-94.
Review of G. M. Browne, Old Nubian Texts
from Qasr Ibrim III (London, 1991), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 54 (1995) 147-48.
Review of D. Frankfurter, Elijah in Upper
Egypt (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1993), Catholic Biblical Quarterly 56 (1994) 793-95.
Review of C. Cannuyer, Les Coptes (Turnhout,
1990), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 53
(1994) 300-301.
Review of The Coptic Encyclopedia (New
York, 1991), Journal of Near Eastern
Studies 52 (1993) 43-47.
Review of W. Brashear, Magica Varia,
Papyrologica Bruxellensia 25 (Bruxelles 1991), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 30 (1993)
73-75.
Review of M. R. M. Hasitzka, Neue Texte und
Dokumentation zum Koptisch-Unterricht (Wien 1990), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 30
(1993) 76-78.
Review of Bulletin de la Société
d'Archéologie Copte, Tome XXX (1991), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 29 (1992)
221-224.
Review of Bulletin de la Société
d'Archéologie Copte, Tome XXVIII (1986-1989), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
27 (1990) 183-87.
EXHIBITIONS CURATED
Curator: "Death Dogs: The Jackal Gods of Ancient Egypt," Kelsey
Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, 6 February-3 May 2015.
Curatorial supervisor: student-curated open-storage drawers in the permanent
installation on Graeco-Roman Egypt, William E. Upjohn Exhibit Wing, Kelsey
Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, ongoing.
Curatorial supervisor for “Kelsey Contemporaries: Kayla Romberger and Alisha
Wessler,” joint MFA Thesis exhibition, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University
of Michigan, 15 March-15 June 2013.
Curatorial supervisor for: "John Kannenberg: Hours of Infinity," MFA
Thesis exhibition, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan:
Installation "Twelve Hours of Infinity: Amduat," March 9-25, 2012 and
Performance "An Hour of Infinity" March 23, 2012.
Curator: "Karanis Revealed: Discovering the Past and Present of a Michigan
Excavation in Egypt," Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan
-Part I: September 16-December 8, 2011,
-Part II January 27-May 6, 2012.
Curatorial supervisor for: "Reem Gibriel: Personae," MFA Thesis
Exhibition, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, April 13-23,
2010.
Curator: permanent installation on Graeco-Roman Egypt, William E. Upjohn
Exhibit Wing, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, opened 1
November 2009.
Curator: "Archaeologies of Childhood: The First Years of Life in Roman
Egypt," Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, November 14
2003-September 19 2004.
Curator: "Gender in the Ancient World: An Exhibition in Honor of the
Reopening of Lane Hall as Home for the Department of Women's Studies and the
Institute for Research on Women and Gender," Kelsey Museum of Archaeology,
University of Michigan, 13-27 October 2000.
Curator: "Music in Roman Egypt: Musical Instruments from the University of
Michigan Excavations at Karanis," Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University
of Michigan, 19 March-12 December 1999.
Curator: "Women and Gender in Egypt: From Prehistory to Late
Antiquity," Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, in cooperation with the
Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan, 14 March-15
June 1997.
Co-Curator: "Death in Ancient Egypt: Preserving Eternity," co-curated
with Janet E. Richards, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan,
opened 26 January 1996, expanded 10 April 1997.
Co-Curator: "The Art of the Fake: Egyptian Forgeries from the Kelsey
Museum of Archaeology;" Online Exhibition, curators Robin Meador-Woodruff,
T. Wilfong and Janet Richards, Online Exhibition designer: Anne Noakes; v. 1.0
online 1996 <http://www.ipl.org/div/kelsey/>.
Co-Curator: "Preserving Eternity: Modern Goals, Ancient Intentions.
Egyptian Funerary Artifacts in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology,"
co-curated with Janet E. Richards, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of
Michigan, opened 7 April 1995.
Co-Curator: "Another Egypt: Coptic Christians at Thebes (7th - 8th
Centuries A. D.)," co-curated with Lorelei Corcoran and Emily Teeter, The
Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago, 3 October 1990 - 30 June
1991.
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED
LECTURES
"Gendered Protection in the Oracular Amuletic Decrees," to be
presented at the University of Louisville, 24 March 2016.
"Tutankhamun's Jackals," Grand Rapids Public Museum, 3 November 2015
"Changing Dog-Gods: The Egyptian Jackal Gods under Roman Rule,"
presented at the Midwest Consortium on Ancient Religion meeting, University of
Chicago, 6 March 2015; American Research Center in Egypt Annual Meeting, Houston,
25 April 2015.
"From Death Dogs to Jackal Kings: The Canine Gods of Ancient Egypt,"
presented at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, 6
February 2015.
"A Misunderstood Egyptomaniac? Athanasius Kircher and the 17th Century
Roots of Western Egyptomania." invited lecture presented at the Walters
Art Museum, Baltimore, 27 October 2013.
"The Buchis Bull and the Philae Falcon: Animal Cults and Changing
Paradigms for the Transition from Paganism to Christianity in Egypt,"
"Coptic Armant: Monastic and Secular Identities in Christian and Early
Islamic Egypt," and "Lament for a Lost Shrine: Memories of the
Egyptian Temple at Armant," Haskell Lectures in Religion: invited series
of three lectures presented at Oberlin College, 10-13 March 2013.
"Format and Performance in the Egyptian Oracular Amuletic Decrees:
Measuring, Writing and Speaking," presented at the conference “Ancient
Amulets: Words, Images and Social Contexts”, University of Chicago, 15-17
February 2013.
"The End(s) of Indigenous Religion in Ancient Egypt: Animal Cults and
Changing Perspectives," Keynote lecture for the Heartland Workshop in
Ancient Studies, University of Minnesota, to be presented 28 September 2012.
"Moving Pictures from Karanis: Kelsey's Lost Karanis," presented Kelsey
Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, 28 June 2012.
"The Sonic Experience of Museums," with John Kannenberg, Cross
Currents Dialogues, Museum Studies Program, University of Michigan, 15 January
2012.
"The Buchis Bull and the End of Indigenous Cults in Egypt," presented
in the IDES Lecture and Performance Series, Illinois Wesleyan University, 24
March 2011.
"Anxious Egyptians: Personal Oracles as Indices of Anxieties in the Later
Periods," presented Illinois Wesleyan University, 25 March 2011,
Department of Near Eastern Studies Faculty Colloquium, University of Michigan,
4 February 2008; Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago, 6 February
2008.
"The Last Buchis Bull: A Reconsideration of the Textual and Archaeological
Evidence for an Egyptian Cult in the 4th Century CE," presented at the
American Society of Papyrologists panel, American Philological
Association/Archaeological Institute of American Joint Annual Meeting, San
Antonio, 8 January 2011.
"The 'Pink Lady', Some Old Shoes and Noisy Toys: Open Storage at the
Kelsey Museum," presented for the Kelsey Museum Associates Annual Event,
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, 20 May 2010.
“The End of Everything in Ancient Egypt," presented at the Center for
Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan, 30 March
2009.
"Exhibiting Life, Death and the Afterlife in Greek and Roman Egypt,"
presented at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, 12
February 2009.
"An Egyptian Funerary Ritual from the Roman Period: Papyrus Stevens in the
Toledo Museum of Art," presented at the American Research Center in Egypt
Annual Meeting, Toledo, 20 April 2007; earlier versions presented at the
Ancient Studies Program, Indiana University, 3 April 2006; University of
California, Berkeley, 18 November 2003; University of California, Los Angeles,
24 February 2003 and Department of Near Eastern Studies Faculty Colloquium,
University of Michigan, 28 October 2002.
"Men in a Coptic Town in Late Antique Egypt: Reexamining the Jeme
Corpus", presented at the Classical Association of the Middle West and
South Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, April 14 2007.
"Wonders in the Service of Power in Ancient Egypt: Incidents from a Desert
Expedition, circa 1990 BCE," presented at "The Powers of Wonder"
Colloquium, Center for Humanities and the Arts, University of Colorado at
Boulder, 9 March 2006.
"Jeme on the Margins of the Later Roman World: Language, Religion, Society
and Material Culture in a town in Southern Egypt," presented at conference
"At the Margins of Empire," Program on the Ancient Mediterranean
World, University of Chicago, 18 February 2006.
"Writing a History of Ancient Egypt in the Later Periods," presented
at the American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellows Meeting, Philadelphia,
12 May 2005.
"Coptic Papyrology, 2000-2004," plenary report (read in absentia by
Elizabeth Bolman) for the Eighth International Congress of Coptic Studies,
Paris, 29 June 2004.
"Detecting Sex in Late Antique Egypt: Ancient Informants and Modern
Investigations," presented at "Feminism and Classics IV",
Tucson, 7 May 2004, earlier version presented at the American Academy of
Religion Annual Meeting, Toronto, 23 November 2002.
"Gender and Society in Byzantine Egypt," presented at the Dumbarton
Oaks Symposium "Byzantine Egypt," Washington D. C., 28 April 2004.
"Musicians at Home: Music in a Domestic Context in Graeco-Roman
Egypt," presented at the Annual International Egyptological Colloquium
"Reconstructing Egyptian Life: New Knowledge from Ancient Sources,"
British Museum, London, 12 July 2002.
"A Coptic Account and the Kilns of Psabt: Textual and Archaeological
Evidence for Pottery Manufacture in Late Antique Egypt," presented at the
Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, 12 June 2001.
"An Ancient Egyptian Afterlife at the University of Michigan,"
presented at the Dennos Museum of Art, Traverse City MI, 11 April 2001, in
conjunction with the exhibition "Exploring Ancient Egypt."
"Musical Mysteries: Music in Ancient Egypt," presented at the Toledo
Museum of Art, Toledo OH, 1 April 2001, in conjunction with the exhibition
"Eternal Egypt: Masterworks of Ancient Art from the British Museum."
"New Texts in Familiar Hands: Unpublished Michigan Coptic Ostraca by Known
Scribes" presented at the Seventh International Congress of Coptic
Studies, Leiden, 1 September 2000.
"Coptic Egypt: Christianity, Art and Culture from the 3rd through 11th
Centuries AD," presented at the Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, 28
October 1999, also at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 9 November 1997, for the
traveling exhibition "Splendors of Egypt."
"Hieratic and Hieroglyphic Papyri at the University of Michigan,"
presented at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt,
Chicago, 24 April, 1999.
"Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt," moderator of panel
presentation and discussion for the International Workshop on Papyrology and
Social History, University of Michigan Library, 16 April 1999.
"Music in Roman Egypt," presented at the Kelsey Museum of
Archaeology, 19 March 1999, with related presentations in the exhibition
gallery on 27 March 1999 and 9 April 1999, the latter as part of the Department
of Near Eastern Studies Faculty Colloquium.
"From Papyrus to Mummy-Bandage: Transforming the Egyptian Book of the Dead
in the Late Period," presented at the Faculty Colloquium, Department of
Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan, 13 March 1998.
"'Teaching Others' about 'Friendship and Physical Desire': Transmitting
Lesbian Discourse in a Convent in Fifth Century CE Egypt," presented in
the APA Lesbian and Gay Caucus panel "Transmitting Women's Culture"
in the series "Gender and Sexuality in Antiquity" at the American
Philological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, December 29 1997, earlier
version presented at the University of Warwick Gay and Lesbian Studies
Workshop, Coventry, 25 January 1995.
"Gendered Space in Ancient Egypt: From the 'Place of Women' to the Place
Beneath the Stairs," presented at the Department of Near Eastern Studies,
University of Michigan, 18 March 1997; Committee on Archaeological Studies
Workshop "Elementary Structures of Everyday Life", University of
Chicago, 8 May 1997.
"Hieratic Fragments from Karanis: An Egyptian Religious Handbook
among the Greek Papyri" presented in the American Society of Papyrologists
panel, American Philological Association Annual Meeting, New York, 29 December
1996.
"Death and the Threat of Eternal Extinction in Ancient Egypt: The
End of Everything," presented at the American Research Center in Egypt
Symposium "Death and Eternity in Ancient Egypt," New York University,
19 November 1996.
"The Christian Agricultural Workers in Early Islamic Egypt: in theory and
in practice," presented at the conference "Land, Settlement and
Agriculture in Egypt, from Pharaonic to Modern Times," St. Antony's
College, Oxford, 19 March 1996.
"Death in Ancient Egypt: Theoretical and Practical Strategies for the
Denial of Eternal Extinction," co-presented with Janet E. Richards at the
University of Michigan Faculty Seminar on the Theme Semester "Death,
Extinction and the Future of Humanity," Kelsey Museum of Archaeology,
University of Michigan, 10 November 1995.
"Gender at Karanis: Women, Men and Difference in Roman Egypt,"
presented at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
21 March 1995.
"Haunted Space: Ancient and Late Antique Egyptian Conceptions of
Site-Specific Supernatural Phenomena," presented at Birkbeck College,
University of London, 29 January 1995.
"The Streets of Jême: Textual Evidence and Urban Archaeology in a
Byzantine Egyptian Townsite," presented as part of the 'Texts and
Townsites' panel at the 20th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Ann Arbor, 20
October 1994.
"The Disjointed Body: Constructions of Women's Bodies in Coptic,"
presented at the University of Warwick conference "Anthropometamorphosis:
Modifying the Human Body in Antiquity," Coventry, 21 April 1994.
"From Ancient Temple to Late Antique Town: The Site of Jême in Southern
Egypt," presented at Department of Classical Studies, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, 4 April 1994.
"Muslim Relations with the Coptic Town of Jême in the Early Islamic
Period," presented at the American Oriental Society Annual Meeting,
Madison, Wisconsin, 21 March 1994, earlier version presented at the Seventh
Annual Middle East History and Theory Workshop and Midwest Faculty Consortium
for Middle Eastern Studies Conference, Chicago, 8 May 1992.
"Neglected Evidence for the Regulation of Women's Sexuality in Late
Antique Egypt," presented at the American Philological Association Annual
Meeting, American Society of Papyrologists panel, Washington DC, December 28
1993, earlier version presented at the University of Chicago Ancient Societies
Workshop, 9 March 1993.
"Women and the Monastery of Epiphanius in Late Antique Egypt,"
presented as part of the "Constructing Gender in Byzantium" panel at
the Nineteenth Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Princeton, 6 November 1993.
"Constantine in Coptic: Egyptian Constructions of Constantine the Great
and his Family," presented at the University of Warwick Centre for East
Roman Studies conference "Constantine and the Birth of Christian
Europe," Coventry, 20 April 1993.
"Women in Ancient Egypt: Objects from the Collection of the Oriental
Institute Museum," presented at the Oriental Institute Museum, University
of Chicago, 2 March 1993.
"Urbanism in Late Antique Egypt: Aphrodito, Fawakhir and Jême,"
presented at the University of Chicago Middle East Urbanism Workshop, 23
February 1993.
"Pottery Manufacture in Byzantine Egypt: Textual and Archaeological
Evidence," presented at the 18th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference,
Urbana-Champaign, 9 October 1992.
"Coptic Texts in the Oriental Institute Museum: A Preliminary
Survey," presented at the Fifth International Coptic Studies Congress,
Washington DC, 15 August 1992.
"Papyrology and Coptic Studies," presented at the Medieval History
Workshop, Loyola University of Chicago, 3 April 1992.
"The Greek Mummy Labels from Medinet Habu," presented at the American
Society of Papyrologists' panel at the American Philological Association Annual
Meeting, Chicago, 28 December 1991.
"The Archive of a Family of Moneylenders from Jême," presented at the
conference "Life in a Multi-Cultural Society: Egypt from Cambyses to
Constantine (and Beyond)" held in conjunction with the Fourth
International Congress of Demotists at the Oriental Institute, University of
Chicago, 5 September 1990.