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KATE LISZKA Harer Fellow, Assistant Professor of History, California State University San Bernardino [email protected] EDUCATION 2012 PHD, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Major in Egyptology and Egyptian Archaeology, Minor in Near Eastern Studies. DISSERTATION: ‘We Have Come to Serve Pharaoh’: A Study of the Medjay and Pangrave Culture as an Ethnic Group and as Mercenaries from c. 2300 BCE until c. 1050 BCE. This project examined the changing identity of a group of Nubians on the fringes of Egyptian history called the Medjay. Based on the date of their evidence they seem to be either Nubian pastoral nomads or an elite Egyptian desert police force. I investigated how, when, and why the Medjay changed. 2007 MA, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Major in Egyptology and Egyptian Archaeology, Minor in Near Eastern Studies. 2001 BA WITH HONORS, PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, Double major in Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and International Studies. 1999-2000 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO, Year Abroad. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Sept 2015- CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN BERNARDINO, Benson and Pamala Harer on Fellow, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Specializing in Egyptology 2012-2015 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, SOCIETY OF FELLOWS IN THE LIBERAL ARTS, Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Art and Archaeology (five fellows selected out of over 850 applications). 2008-2010 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY in Chicago, Part Time Instructor, Department of History 2007-2008 ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY in Chicago, Adjunct Faculty Member, Department of History and Philosophy 2003-2007 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Teaching Assistant, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Department of Folklore RESEARCH INTERESTS Ancient Egyptian Art, History, and Archaeology; Nubians in Egypt; the Medjay; Portrayal of Ethnicity and Identity in Antiquity; Multicultural Interactions in Frontier Regions; the Pangrave Archaeological Culture; Large-Scale Mining Expeditions. WADI EL-HUDI EXPEDITION, EGYPT I am director and lead researcher for an ongoing archaeological and epigraphic project at Wadi el-Hudi. This area incorporates a series of at least 17 archaeological sites located in the Egyptian Eastern Desert, 35km east of Aswan, dating to the Egyptian Middle Kingdom (21001700 BCE) and Roman Period (1st-4th c. CE). Most sites are made up of an ancient amethyst or gold mines with associated fortified settlements and other structures. Over 200 inscriptions are also present. Preliminary publication of the 2014 and 2015 season is in preparation. For more information visit www.facebook.com/wadielhudi.

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PUBLICATIONS (COMPLETED AND IN PROGRESS) In Press “Scarab Amulets in the Egyptian Collection of the Princeton University Art Museum.” Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University. Peer Reviewed. In Press Review of Harco Willems, Historical and Archaeological Aspects of Egyptian Funerary Culture, for Near Eastern Archaeology. Non-Peer Reviewed. Submitted “Evidence for administration of the Nubian fortresses in the late Middle Kingdom: The Semna Despatches.” Jointly authored with Bryan Kraemer. Submitted to Journal of Egyptian History. Peer Reviewed. Submitted “Evidence for administration of the Nubian fortresses in the late Middle Kingdom: P. Ramessesum 18.” Jointly authored with Bryan Kraemer. Submitted to Journal of Egyptian History. Peer Reviewed. 2015 “Are the Bearers of the Pan-Grave Archaeological Culture Identical to the MedjayPeople in the Egyptian Textual Record?” Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 7:2: 42-60. Peer Reviewed. 2015 “Gems in the Desert: Recent Work at Wadi el-Hudi.” Egyptian Archaeology 46: 37-40. Non-Peer Reviewed. 2012 “A-Group”, “Esna/Latopolis,” “Foreigners, Pharaonic Egypt”, “Satet”, and “Speos Artimedos.” In The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, edited by R. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. Champion, A. Erskine, and S. Huebner, 229-230, 2501, 27102713, 6056-6057, and 6351-6352. London: Blackwell Publishing Limited. 2011 “‘We have come from the Well of Ibhet’: Ethnogenesis of the Medjay”, Journal of Egyptian History. 4:2: 149-171. Peer Reviewed. 2010 “‘Medjay’ (no. 188) in the Onomasticon of Amenemope.” In Millions of Jubilees: Studies in Honor of David P. Silverman, edited by Z. Hawass and J. H. Wegner, 315-331. Cairo: Publications du Conseil Suprême des Antiquités de l’Égypte. 2008 “Water Basins in Middle Kingdom Planned Settlements.” In Current Research in Egyptology 2008: Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Symposium, University of Manchester, edited by V. Gashe and J. Finch, 51-68. Bolton: Rutherford Press Limited. Peer Reviewed. 2007 “Tracing Stylistic Changes within ‘Coronation Scenes’.” In Proceedings of the IXth International Congress of Egyptologists, edited by J.-C. Goyon and C. Cardin, 1151-1161. Louvain: PEETERS. 2001 “The Multi-purpose Mixing Bowl in the Late 3rd Millennium Pottery Corpus.” Akhenaten Temple Project Newsletter. 2: 1-3. Advanced “Egyptian or Nubian?: Settlement Architecture at Wadi el-Hudi and Wadi esPreparation Sebua” Paper to be submitted to Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. In “Preliminary Report of the 2014 and 2015 season at Wadi el-Hudi” Paper plans to Preparation be coauthored with my ceramicist and plans to be submitted to the Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt Book From Pastoral Nomads to Policemen: The Evolution and Role of the Medjay in under Ancient Egypt and Nubia, c. 2300 to 1250 BCE. Currently under contract for advanced Brill’s series Probleme der Ägyptologie, pending review of manuscript. contract This monograph revises most of my dissertation on the changing conditions of the Medjay within Ancient Egypt. It attempts to explain their evolution supposedly from Nubian pastoral nomads to and elite Egyptian desert police force.

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UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE Syllabi, evaluations, and course materials can be provided upon request. 2015 INTRODUCTION TO ANCIENT EGYPT, California State

University, Primary Instructor, undergraduate lecture, discussion, and partial seminar. 2013 and ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ART, Princeton University, Primary Instructor, undergraduate 2015 lecture, discussion, and partial seminar. 2013 ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY, Princeton University, Primary Instructor, undergraduate lecture, discussion, partial seminar, with interactive project identifying scarabs in the collections of the Princeton Art Museum. 2012 UNDERSTANDING THE “BARBARIANS:” DISCOVERING ETHNICITY IN ANCIENT HISTORY, ART, AND ARCHAEOLOGY, Princeton University, Primary Instructor, Upper level undergraduate seminar. Covers questions of identity in primary material from Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Mesopotamia. 2011 TEACHER’S CERTIFICATION, completed from the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Pennsylvania. 2008-2010 THE AGE OF TUTANKHAMUN, Loyola University, taught three times as Primary Instructor, Upper level undergraduate lecture, discussion, and partial seminar. 2008 ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HISTORY AND SOCIETY, Loyola University, Primary Instructor, Upper level undergraduate lecture and partial discussion. 2008 GREAT IDEAS I, Roosevelt University, Primary Instructor, Introduction to reading and analyzing ancient and medieval primary source material. 2007 THE ANCIENT WORLD, Roosevelt University, Primary Instructor, Upper level undergraduate and graduate student lecture and discussion. 2003-2007 LAND OF THE PHARAOHS, University of Pennsylvania, three times working as Teaching Assistant for Dr. Josef Wegner, for undergraduate lecture class. 2006 INTRODUCTION TO FOLKLORE, University of Pennsylvania, Teaching Assistant for Dr. Dan Ben-Amos, for undergraduate lecture class. MUSEUM AND OTHER ARCHIVAL EXPERIENCE 2013 THE PRINCETON MUSEUM OF ART, Princeton, organized project for undergraduate students to identify, draw, and analyze all of the scarabs in the museum collection. Work will be incorporated into museum’s database and on their website. See explanation in Princeton University Art Museum, Fall 2013 Magazine, page 16 and http://artmuseum.princeton.edu/story/grants-support-objectbased-teaching 2003 THE BRITISH MUSEUM, London, Intern for the Egyptian Department. Among other tasks, I wrote and maintained a database for the department’s archives. 2002-2003 THE PENNSYLVANIA-YALE-INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS EXPEDITION, at the University of Pennsylvania, Processed plans and drawing for Director Josef Wegner. 1999-2002 THE THEBAN MAPPING PROJECT, at the American University in Cairo, Director Kent Weeks. Assisted photograph Francis Dzikowski, and helped to create and organize material for the TMP website, www.thebanmappingproject.com. 2002 THE EGYPTIAN MUSEUM, Cairo, Designed a children’s educational activity worksheet in English and Arabic published in A Zoo for Eternity: Animal Mummies from the Cairo Museum by Salima Ikram (Cairo, 2004). 1998-2001 THE AKHENATEN TEMPLE PROJECT at the Pennsylvania State University. Director: Donald Redford. Volunteered to catalog material and do ceramic drawing.

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ARCHEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK 2014-2015 DIRECTOR of the Wadi el-Hudi Expedition in Egypt, ongoing project with permissions, season 2. 2014 DIRECTOR of the Wadi el-Hudi Expedition in Egypt, ongoing project with permissions, season 1. 2010 EXCAVATOR AND FIELD SURVEYOR of the Ahmose and Tetisheri Project in Egypt, Director: Stephen Harvey from Stony Brook University. 2009 EXCAVATOR for the Giza Plateau Mapping Project in Egypt. Director: Mark Lehner from the Ancient Egypt Research Associates. 2004 CERAMICIST for the South Abydos Settlement Excavation E, Directors: Nicholas Picardo and Josef Wegner from the University of Pennsylvania. 1999 EXCAVATOR AND FIELD SCHOOL PARTICIPANT at Mendes, Egypt, Director: Donald Redford from Pennsylvania State University. 1998 FIELD SCHOOL PARTICIPANT at Leptiminus, Tunisia, Director: Lea Sterling from the University of Manitoba. ACADEMIC CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS 2015 “On the Edge of Egypt and Nubia at Wadi el-Hudi, Eastern Desert” Paper presented at the 66th Annual Meeting. Houston TX, April 24, 2015. 2014 “From Pastoral Nomads to Pharaoh’s Soldiers: The Evolution and Role of the Medjay in Ancient Egypt.” Paper presented at the Society of Fellows at Princeton University. Princeton, New Jersey, November 18. 2014 “Egyptians and Nubians at Wadi el-Hudi: Perspectives on multicultural interactions from recent archaeological survey.” Paper presented at the 13th International Conference for Nubian Studies, Neuchatel, Switzerland, September 3. 2014 “Out of the Pangrave and into the Fire: Approaches to the Identity(ies) of the Pangrave Archaeological Culture.” Paper presented at the Society of Fellows at Princeton University. Princeton, New Jersey, February 7. 2013 “Reevaluating the Link between the Medjay and the Pangrave.” Paper given at the American Research Center in Egypt 64thAnnual Meeting. Cincinnati OH,April 21. 2013 “Controlling the Desert: Cultural and Political Interactions between the People of the Eastern Desert and the Administrators of Lower Nubia during the Egyptian New Kingdom.” Paper presented at 114th Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting. Seattle, Washington, January 4. 2012-2014 “From Pastoral Nomads to Policemen: Ethnicity and Identity of the Medjay in Ancient Egypt.” Presentation given to several chapters of the Archaeological Institute of America and the American Research Center in Egypt. 2012 “Egyptology and the Search for Ancient Ethnicity.” Presentation for the Princeton University Society of Fellow, October 23. 2012 “A Pangrave – Medjay Connection?” Paper presented at the University of Leicester conference on Nubia before the New Kingdom, Leicester, UK, September 6. 2012 “We have come to serve Pharaoh: A Study of the Medjay and the Pangrave as an Ethnic Group and as Mercenaries from c. 2300 until c. 1050 BCE,” Invited lecture given to Colorado State University, Pueblo, February 3, 2012 and Roanoke College, Virginia February 12. 2012 “Ethnicity, the Military, and a Reputation of World Domination,” Invited lecture given to Sienna Heights University, January 25.

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“‘We have come from the Well of Ibhet’: Ethnogenesis of the Medjay.” Paper presented at The American Research Center in Egypt 62nd Annual Meeting. Chicago, Illinois, April 1. “Water Basins in Middle Kingdom Planned Settlements: an Architectural Feature of Hospitality and Bureaucracy”. Paper presented at the Current Research in Egyptology IX. Conference in Manchester, UK, January 10, 2008. A revised version presented at The American Research Center in Egypt 59th Annual Meeting. Seattle, Washington, April 25. “Ramesses III: King of Egypt.” Invited lecture for the American Research Center in Egypt, Pennsylvania Chapter, June 2. “Egyptian Stone Vessels in Crete as Diplomatic Gifts?” Paper presented at the Land & Sea Conference, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 29. “Tracing Stylistic Changes within ‘Coronation Scenes’.” Paper presented at the Ninth International Congress of Egyptologists in Grenoble, France, Sept. 6-12. “The Question of Votive Water Clocks.” Paper presented at the First International Conference for Young Egyptologists. L’acqua nell’antico egitto: vita, rigenerazione, incantesimo, medicamento, in Chianciano Terme, Italy, Oct. 16. “Production Workshops at El-Amarna.” Paper presented at The American Research Center in Egypt 54th Annual Meeting, April 25.

OTHER PUBLIC SPEAKING AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH 2015 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Invited Guest Lecturer for an archaeological symposium entitled More than Dirt at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies. Presented on “Gems of the Desert: Recent Work at Wadi el-Hudi, Egypt.” 2014-2015 MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY, SPRINGFIELD and CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN BERNARDINO, Invited Guest Lecturer. Lectured on “From Pastoral Nomads to Pharaoh’s Forces: Evolution and Role of the Medjay in Ancient Egypt.” 2014 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA, PRINCETON, Invited Guest Lecturer. Lectured on “Gems in the Desert: Living, Mining, and Surviving in the Ancient Egyptian Eastern Desert.” 2013 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA, PRINCETON, Invited Guest Lecturer. Lectured on “Egyptian Pyramids at Princeton: A look at Lisht in the Middle Kingdom.” This was part of International Archaeology Day, October 19. 2013 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Invited Guest Lecturer. Presentation for Mathey College Lunch Seminars, on the topic of “Tomb Robbing in Ancient Egypt” February 13. 2012-2014 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Guest Lecturer. Taught several guest lectures for various classes in the Department of Classics and the Department of Art and Archaeology. Some topics include: Ethnicity in Ancient Egypt, Introduction of Ancient Egyptian Art, and Introduction to Ancient Mesopotamian Art, Egyptian Palaces, Egyptian Integration of Art and Writing, and more. 2012 ROANOKE COLLEGE, VIRGINIA, Invited Guest Lecturer. Taught a class and lead a discussion on the topic “Reading Akhenaten’s Religious Revolution in Art, Architecture, and Landscape.” 2012 COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY, PUEBLO, Invited Guest Lecturer. Taught a class discussion and led a debate on the topic “Does Alexander (the Great) deserve his Reputation?”

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2003-2012 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY, Speaker and Tour Guide. Conducted dozens of presentations for elementary and high school students visiting the museum on the topics of Ancient Egypt, Egyptology, Archaeology, and Anthropology. 2004-2012 THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA OUTREACH LECTURE PROGRAM, Speaker, Conducted approximately one hundred lectures for public libraries and other public forums in Pennsylvania for topics on Ancient Egypt, Egyptology, and Archaeology. 2007 WYBE IN PHILADELPHIA, Wrote and created three five-minute educational videos about Ancient Egypt for Philadelphia’s PBS television station. They aired multiple times over the following years. 2007 “TUTANKHAMUN AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE PHARAOHS,” Lecturer and Tour Guide for the Franklin Institute’s temporary exhibit. 2006-2007 “AMARNA: ANCIENT EGYPT’S PLACE IN THE SUN,” Lecturer and Tour Guide for the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology’s specialized museum exhibit. 2005-2007 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY, Lecturer for local high school teachers about Ancient Egypt, as part of a Teacher Workshop to fulfill their Act 48 Credit and New Jersey Teacher’s Certification. SERVICE AND CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION 2014-2015 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Advised a senior thesis in the Department of Art and Archaeology on Ancient Egyptian Art. 2014 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Organized and spoke at an interdisciplinary workshop entitled “On the Margins of the Textual Tradition: Works in Progress,” February 20-21. 2013-2014 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Faculty Mentor for the Edward’s Collective, a selective, creative humanities group of undergraduate students at Mathey College. 2013 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Organized and spoke at a workshop on “Archaeology and Pedagogy” for the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies on April 12. 2012-2015 AMERICAN RESEARCH CENTER IN EGYPT, Faculty Representative for the Princeton University’s Institutional Membership and Research Supporting Membership. 2012-2013 Twice adjudicated a million euro grant for the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and their START Fund. LANGUAGES Hieroglyphs, Middle Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Old Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Late Egyptian Hieratic, Old, Middle, Late Egyptian Demotic English German French Arabic, Colloquial Egyptian

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GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND HONORS 2015-2016 Nominated (without application) to the position of National Speaker for the Archaeological Institute of America 2014-2015 The David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Project, from the Council of the Humanities, Princeton to train students in advanced archaeological techniques at Wadi elHudi, including making maps, doing Petrography on ceramics, and making epigraphic copies with RTI of stelae from the site. 2014-2015 Digital Humanities Initiative grant for digital aspects of the archaeological project at Wadi el-Hudi, including making maps and using RTI to create epigraphic copies of stelae. 2014 The University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Society Sciences from the William Hallum Tuck Memorial Fund to conduct primary research in Oxford, London, and Berlin for my book manuscripts. 2013 Andrew W. Mellon Fund for Faculty Innovation for the Princeton Art Museum to complete summer research on the museum’s scarabs to be incorporated into my course on Ancient Egyptian Archaeology. 2013-2014 The David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Project, from the Council of the Humanities, Princeton to create a website for the Survey from Abydos to Hagg el-Salaam, Egypt. Award declined. 2012-2014 Archaeological Grant from the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University to conduct a survey in Egypt during summer 2013. 2013 The Princeton Environmental Institute to hire three Princeton University Geoscience students to conduct Remote Sensing in Egypt during summer 2013. Award Declined. 2012-2015 Faculty Fellow of Mathey College at Princeton University. 2011-2012 University of Pennsylvania, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Tuition Scholarship. 2009 The Gorgias Book Grant. 2008-2009 The Kosciuszko Foundation Tuition Scholarship. 2006-2007 The Kosciuszko Foundation Tuition Scholarship. 2002-2007 William Penn Scholarship, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.