Peter Der Manuelian

Peter Der Manuelian received his Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago in 1990. In 2009, he was appointed the “Philip J. King Professor of Egyptology” at Harvard University (Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and Department of Anthropology), and in 2019 "Barbara Bell Professor of Egyptology." This is the first Egyptology chair at Harvard since the time of George Reisner (1867-1942), more than 80 years ago. He is director of the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and also directs the Giza Project at Harvard, the Arabic Diaries Project at Harvard, and the MA Program in Museum Studies at the Harvard Extension School. He joined the curatorial staff at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1987, and was Giza Archives Project Director there from 2000–2011, in addition to teaching at Tufts University for ten years. His primary research interests include ancient Egyptian history, archaeology, historiography and social justice, digital epigraphy and visualization, the development of mortuary architecture, and the (icono)graphic nature of Egyptian language and culture in general. His most recent monograph is Walking Among Pharaohs. George Reisner and the Dawn of Modern Egyptology (Oxford University Press, 2023). For a one-page summary of Reisner's career, see Harvard Magazine, and for an interview, see the Harvard Gazette.

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