Contributors

Melinda Hartwig (MH) completed her Ph.D. at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. Currently the Curator of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, she previously taught art history at Georgia State University at the rank of Professor. She has numerous books and articles to her credit, including, The Tomb Chapel of Menna (2013), and A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art (2014), which received the 2016 PROSE award. She teaches several courses on ancient Egypt for The Great Courses® and Wondrium®.

Renée Stein is the Director of Conservation at the Michael C. Carlos Museum and Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Art History at Emory University. She received a MS specializing in objects conservation from the Winterthur - University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation and is a Fellow of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. Her research focuses on methods for materials identification and conservation treatment, particularly of painted wood and stone.

Brittany Dolph Dinneen is the Assistant Conservator of Objects at Emory University’s Michael C. Carlos Museum. She has previously worked at the National Museum of African Art, National Museum of American History, and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. Additionally, she has done archaeological conservation work for projects in Jordan, Azerbaijan, and Greece, most currently as part of the American Excavations Samothrace. She received her M.A. from the UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage. She is a Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation.

Kaitlyn Wright is the Andrew W. Mellon Advanced Fellow in Objects Conservation at the Parsons Conservation Laboratory. She received her MA in Art Conservation specializing in objects from SUNY Buffalo State College, completing internships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Athenian Agora Excavations, and the Institute for Aegean Prehistory - Study Center East Crete.

Tasha Dobbin-Bennett (TDB)* is an Associate Professor of Art History at Emory Oxford College. Before joining the faculty in 2015, she was the Papyrologist at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Yale University). Trained as an Egyptologist, she enjoys teaching wide-ranging classes on Egyptian art and architecture to her students. She readily acknowledges that one of the perks of her job is that she has had many opportunities to lecture and be a visitor at the Michael C. Carlos Museum.

Jonathan Elias (JE)* completed his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago while researching systems of magical inscriptions appearing on Egyptian coffins. This led to a special interest in the high-tech imaging of Egyptian mummies and chronological analysis of mummification patterns. He currently serves as the Director of the Akhmim Mummy Studies Consortium (AMSC Research, LLC), an international project coordinating research on mummies from Akhmim and other Egyptian sites.

Tyler Holman (TH) is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Art History at Emory University. His research interests focus on cross-cultural interactions and hybridity in the Roman world, and he is especially interested in how these phenomena manifested in the numismatics and material culture of Roman Egypt.

Rune Nyord is an Assistant Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology at Emory University and Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. His research focuses on conceptions and experiences of representation, ontology, and personhood in ancient Egypt. He is the author of Breathing Flesh: Conceptions of the Body in the Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts (2009) and *Seeing perfection: Ancient Egyptian images beyond representation *(2020), and has edited and co-edited several volumes, the most recent being Concepts in Middle Kingdom Funerary Culture (2019).

Sandra Still completed her M.A. and Ph.D. at Emory University and then worked in New York publishing. After returning to Atlanta and Emory, she held various positions in the Woodruff Library, primarily in Collection Management and as a Subject Librarian for the departments of English, Women’s Studies, and several areas in Art History.

Emily Whitehead (EW) is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Art History, Emory University, and the 2022-2023 Nat C. Robertson Graduate Fellow in Science and Society at the Institute for Liberal Arts, Emory University. Her research interests focus on Middle Kingdom funerary art, archaeology, and texts, and the formation of narratives and arguments surrounding continuity and change in burial practices. She previously held a 2020 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Object-Centered Curatorial Research, where she studied Middle Kingdom boat models in the Michael C. Carlos Museum.