BLOOMSBURY SUMMER SCHOOL 2008 - WHO'S WHO
THE DIRECTOR
Mr Christopher Coleman was for over twenty years a Lecturer in History at University
College London, where he remains as an Honorary Research Fellow of the department.
He founded Bloomsbury Summer School in 1990 and has directed it ever since. In
this time BSS has become the most successful organisation of its kind in the United
Kingdom. In association with its sister organisation, Bloomsbury Academy, it has
also made significant financial, and other, contributions to a wide range of research
projects in Egyptian archaeology and related subjects. These include expeditions to
Hierakonpolis, Zawiyet Sultan, Saqqara, Mo’alla, Abydos, the Abu Tartur plateau, Mendes and royal tombs KV5 and KV39 in the Valley of the Kings; the Centre for
Alexandrian Studies; the Amarna Royal Tombs Project; the Theban Mapping Project;
the Manchester Egyptian Mummy Project; the Western Sahara Geo-Archaeological Survey; the Griffith Institute in the University of Oxford; the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology; and the Rock Art Topographical Survey.
THE DEPUTY DIRECTORS
Ms Lucia Gahlin is Amarna Researcher in the Petrie Museum and has registered objects for Professor Barry Kemp at Amarna. She teaches extra-mural Egyptology for the Universities of Exeter and Bristol, and is co-director of this year’s BSS courses on Flinders Petrie and his Heritage and Tutankhamun. She is author of Egypt: Gods, Myths and Religion (2001) and of chapters in T. Wilkinson (ed.) The Egyptian World (2007).
Ms Jan Picton is a Teaching Fellow and Honorary Research Assistant at the Institute of Archaeology at University College London and lectures widely in Egyptology. She is also a member of the University of Liverpool’s Gurob Harem Palace Project. As Secretary of the Friends of the Petrie Museum she is deeply involved in all the Museum’s activities and is co-director of this year’s BSS course on Flinders Petrie and his Heritage. She has contributed to the publication of Living Images: Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum (2007) and Unseen Images: Archive Photographs in the Petrie Museum (in preparation).
SUMMER SCHOOL 2008 - COURSE DIRECTORS
Dr Paul Collins is Curator of the later Mesopotamia collections in the British Museum. He was previously Assistant Curator in the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. His latest books, Egypt to Babylon, and Assyrian Palace Sculptures will be published in autumn 2008. His research interests include Assyrian art, and relationships between Ancient Iraq and neighbouring regions.
Dr Aidan Dodson is a Research and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology in the University of Bristol, where he is Unit Director for Egyptology. He is the author of over two hundred articles and eleven books, most recently The Tomb in Ancient Egypt, with Salima Ikram (Thames and Hudson, 2008) and has, amongst other volumes in preparation, two on Tutankhamun.
Dr Karen Exell is Curator of Egypt and the Sudan at the Manchester University Museum. She was previously Deputy Curator of the University Museums, Durham, and Deputy Director of the Egypt Exploration Society. She has taught the history and language of Ancient Egypt at university and other levels for several years and leads tours to Egypt. Her research interests include state and society in Ramesside Egypt.
Ms Joyce Filer studied Egyptology at University College London and postgraduate
Ancient Pathology at the then separate Institute of Archaeology. Subsequently, she
was for ten years Curator for Human and Animal Remains in the Department of
Ancient Egypt and Sudan in the British Museum. She has excavated many cemetery
sites in Egypt, Sudan and Britain and is the author of numerous articles and books on
biological and other aspects of Ancient Egypt. She is currently involved in several
biological research projects and teaching programmes.
Mr George Hart graduated with degrees in Classics and Egyptology from University
College London and spent thirty-one years on the staff of the British Museum, lecturing
and running courses on Ancient Egypt. He has served on a number of occasions on
the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Society and is currently a member of the
editorial board of its bulletin Egyptian Archaeology. He has written books on Egyptian
religion, mythology and the monuments of the Pyramid Age, and led tours to Egypt for
the British Museum and Swan Hellenic.
Dr Kathryn Piquette recently completed her doctorate in Egyptology at the Institute
of Archaeology, University College London. Her main interests concern the Late
Predynastic and Early Dynastic periods, and in particular writing and art. She lectures
at the Institute of Archaeology, Birkbeck College and London City University. She has
excavated at Hierakonpolis and the workmen’s village of the pyramid builders at Giza,
and also in Jordan and Peru.
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