Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Egyptology
Areas of Interest
- Archaeology and material culture of ancient Egypt
- Egyptian cultural history
- Social organization and gender relationships
- 'Popular' religion, ritual practice, and performance in the Egyptian context
- Landscape archaeology
(On Leave)
Biography
Professor Pouls Wegner received her Ph.D. in Egyptology with a specialization in Egyptian Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania, and has been teaching at the University of Toronto in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations since 2000. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on Ancient Egyptian archaeology, social and political history, culture, and artifacts (utilizing the collections of the Royal Ontario Museum), and also provides students with opportunities to participate in her research through work-study and volunteer initiatives. She has published numerous analyses of artifactual material from Egypt, many of which are available online through her Academia and ResearchGate accounts.
As a member of the Graduate Faculty, Prof. Pouls Wegner is actively involved in graduate research programs in the field of Egyptology and Near Eastern Archaeology and has served on numerous thesis committees in these areas. She supervises students in the MA and Ph.D. programs doing research related to ancient Egyptian archaeology, culture, and social development as well as artifactual data, and is particularly interested in utilizing anthropological approaches to the study of social organization and material culture in the Egyptian context. She has worked closely with doctoral students under her supervision to develop and carry out their own analyses of archaeological material recovered from the excavations under her direction in Egypt.
Prof. Pouls Wegner is the Director of the Toronto Abydos Votive Zone Project, an ongoing archaeological field project under the auspices of the University of Toronto and the University of Pennsylvania-Yale University-Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Expedition to Abydos.
Education
Publications
- Birth and Rebirth in the Abydos Landscape (Peeters Publishers Leuven, Egypt, Sudan : 2019)
- Reading Abydos as the Landscape of Postmortem Transformation (Yale Egyptology : 2016)
- Anthropoid Clay Coffins of the Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age in Egypt and the Near East: A Re-Evaluation of the Evidence from Tell el-Yahudiya (Brill : 2015)
- New Fieldwork at Abydos: the Toronto Abydos Votive Zone Project (Near Eastern Archaeology : 2012)
- New Kingdom Ceramics associated with the Cult Chapel of Thutmose III at Abydos: Preliminary Analysis and Interpretation (Cahiers de la Céramique Égyptienne : 2011)
- Votive Deposits of the Ptolemaic Period in North Abydos (Cahiers de la Céramique Égyptienne : 2011)
- The Construction Accounts from the 'Portal Temple' of Ramesses II in North Abydos (American University in Cairo Press : 2010)
- A Third Intermediate Period Burial 'Ad Sanctos' at Abydos (Supreme Council of Antiquities : 2007)
- Wepwawet in Context: A Reconsideration of the Role of the Jackal Deity in Votive Ritual and Spatial Organization at Abydos (Lockwood Press : 2007)
- Demotic Ostraca from North Abydos / Archaeological Context of the Excavated Demotic Ostraca from the North Abydos Votive Zone (Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden : 2007)