Dr Raúl Sánchez Casado (IP)
Raúl is a Ramón y Cajal postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Ancient History at the University of Seville. His main field of research focuses on the study of the funerary cult in the Old Kingdom from an eminently social point of view, analysing who the officiants of these cults were, what their socio-economic status was and what relationships of interdependence were established between these officiants and the patrons they served. His main interest is to understand the impact that the establishment and management of the funerary cult had on the people who maintained it. Recent publications include “Two Remarkable Censing Scenes from the Tomb of Kaemneferet at Giza (G 8538)” (Chronique d’Ègypte, 2023), The overseer of linen (jmj-r sSrw) in the Old Kingdom, (Journal of Egyptian History 16, 2023 with Jonatan Ortiz), Priestly officiants in the Old Kingdom mortuary cult, (Monografías de Oriente Antiguo 3, Universidad de Alcalá 2022, edited with Antonio Morales), El servidor del ka en el Reino Antiguo: funciones y espacios de actuación (BAR Intemational Series, Oxford, 2020).
Dr Francisco Borrego Gallardo
He is an Egyptologist. BA in History (UAM, 2002), MA in Ancient History (2005), PhD in Ancient History (Egyptology; 2010, Extraordinary Prize). He currently holds the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Ancient History, Medieval History and Paleography and Diplomatics at Autonomous University of Madrid. Throughout his academic career, he has developed several lines of research. The first focuses on the study of kingship and religion in ancient Egypt, particularly during the 4th and 3rd millennium BC. Additionally, he has carried out studies on iconography, from semiological perspectives to evidence mainly from the temples’ sphere. Thirdly, an important area of study that derives from his epigraphic and archaeological field activity in Egypt. Specifically, it focuses on the epigraphic, prosopographical, and cultural analysis of artefacts from funerary contexts. In more recent times, he has extended these lines of research to include the categorisation and cultural meanings of birds of prey within the methodological scope of Animal Studies (Anthropozoology), as well as the study of ancient Egyptian songs as a literary genre and their religious implications.
Dr Rémi Legros
Rémi is a doctor in Egyptology and associate researcher at Lyon University. He is also teacher in general History and Geography. As a member of the French-Swiss Archaeological Mission at Saqqara since 2004, he works on the private documentation discovered on the Pepy I' necropolis. His research focuses on offering tables and false doors and the way they bear witness to the relationship between the living and the dead. His PhD was published under the title Stratégies mémorielles. Les cultes privés de la VIe à la XIIe dynastie (Lyon, 2015).
Recently awarded of a grant from the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art (Geneva), he is currently working on a chronology of the end of the Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period.
Dr Émilie Martinet
She holds a MA in History and Egyptology and a PhD in Egyptology (2013) from the Paris-Sorbonne University. She is associate researcher of the CNRS-UMR 8167 (Paris-Sorbonne University) and UMR 5140 (Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University). She has worked as a postdoctoral researcher for the digital dictionary of Ancient Egyptian VEgA at the Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University (2015-2018). She has been Senior Fellow (Humboldt Foundation) at the University of Würzburg and the University of Cologne in 2021-2023.
She is a specialist in administrative and social history of Egypt in the Third Millennium BCE. In her PhD thesis, she provides an innovative and complete analysis of the provincial administrative structures in the Egyptian Old Kingdom (2700-2160 BCE) based on a critical study of sources and building on a database containing about 1500 titled individuals. She also works on the history of Egyptology and the scientific archives of Egyptologists (Raymond Weill). She has published several articles and two monographs, including her PhD thesis (L'Administration provinciale sous l'Ancien Empire égyptien, Probleme der Ägyptologie 38, Leiden-Boston, 2019, 2 vol.).
Dr Uroš Matić
He is a lecturer at the Institute for Classics of the University of Graz. He has published extensively on war, violence gender and the body in ancient Egypt, but also ethnicity and Egyptian foreign relations. He conducted several Post Doc projects since 2018. Recently he also specialized in Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period pottery of Upper Egypt. Recent publications include Bodies that Mattered: Ancient Egyptian Corporealities (2024, co-edited with Dina Serova), Beautiful Bodies: Gender and Corporeal Aesthetics in the Past (2022), Violence and Gender in Ancient Egypt (2021), Ethnic Identities in the Land of the Pharaohs: Past and Present Approaches in Egyptology (2020), Body and Frames of War in New Kingdom Egypt: Violent Treatments of Enemies and Prisoners (2019) and Archaeologies of Gender and Violence (2017, co-edited with Bo Jensen). He is co-editing the Cambridge University Press Elements Series Archaeology and Gender together with Prof. Katharina Rebay-Salisbury (University of Vienna).
Dr Juan Carlos Moreno García
He is a CNRS senior researcher at the Sorbonne University in Paris. He has published extensively on pharaonic administration, socio-economic history, landscape organization and the structure of the state, usually in a comparative perspective with other civilizations of the ancient world, and has organized several conferences on these topics. He is also invited lecturer at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris) and at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Recent publications include From House Societies to States: Early Political Organization, from Antiquity to the Middle Ages (2022), Power and Regions in Ancient States: An Egyptian and Mesoamerican Perspective (2022), Markets and Exchanges in Pre-modern and Traditional Societies (2021), The State in Ancient Egypt: Power, Challenges and Dynamics (2019), Dynamics of Production in the Ancient Near East, 1300-500 BC (2016) and L'Égypte des pharaons. De Narmer à Dioclétien (3150 av. J.-C.-284 apr. J.-C.)(2016). He is also chief editor of The Journal of Egyptian History (Brill), area editor (“economy”) of the UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology and editor of the Egyptological series “Cambridge Elements: Ancient Egypt in Context” (Cambridge University Press) and “Multidisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Societies (MAtAS)” (Oxbow Books), in collaboration with Gianluca Miniaci.
Dr Beatriz Noria Serrano
Beatriz Noria-Serrano holds a PhD in ancient History with a specialization in Egyptology (2023) from the University of Alcalá. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pisa as part of the project PIPE (‘Profiling the Identity of the Producers in ancient Egypt and Nubia through the “aura” of clay figurines’). She has completed several research stays in at renowned centers such as the University of Oxford, the Freie Universität of Berlin, the Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale in Cairo and the British Museum. Beatriz is a member of several research and archaeological groups, including The Middle Kingdom Theban Project and the Djehuty Project, which excavate in the Egyptian necropoleis of Deir el-Bahari and Dra Abu el-Naga.
Her research focuses on gender studies, in particular studies of motherhood in the Middle Kingdom (ca. 1840-1760 BC) from a multidisciplinary perspective that includes approaches and methods from Egyptology, linguistics and anthropology.
Dr Leire Olabarria
Leire is Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Birmingham (UK). Her research focuses on kinship, social groups, memory and the funerary archaeology of the Middle Kingdom. She is interested in how kinship is constructed and materialised in the monumental record of the First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom (c. 2150-1650 BC). Recent publications include Kinship and family in ancient Egypt: archaeology and anthropology in dialogue (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Coming to terms with stelae: a performative approach to memorial stelae and chapels of Abydos in the Middle Kingdom (SAK 49, 2020), 'A question of substance: interpreting kinship and relatedness in ancient Egypt (Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, 17, 2018).