Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Egyptology
Areas of Interest
- Ancient Egyptian language and literature
- Ancient Egyptian religion and comparative mythology
- Ancient Egyptian kingship and its use in propaganda
- Relationship between text and image
- Relationship between Egypt and Nubia
Biography
Served as Education Officer and Project Egyptologist for the exhibition of the Treasures of Tutankhamun in Toronto in 1978-79, and has done archaeological work in Egypt for the Akhenaten Temple Project and the Dakhleh Oasis Project. In 1981 he became the first director of the Canadian Institute in Egypt, and is currently Professor of Egyptology in, and past Chair of, the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. The recipient of a University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Science Outstanding Teaching Award in 2002-2003, he has also published a two volume study of the funerary stelae in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (1985 and 1991) as well as The Great Name. Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, a comprehensive study of the three thousand-year history of the titulary of the pharaohs (2013).
Education
Publications
- Of Cubits and Clauses. Some Remarks on the Stela of Tjetji (British Museum EA 614) (Egyptological Seminar of New York, New York : 2020)
- Historical Texts (Oxford University Press : 2020)
- All Things Ancient Egypt: An Encyclopedia of the Ancient Egyptian World (ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara : 2019)
- Self-Presentation in the Twelfth Dynasty and the Late Middle Kingdom (American University in Cairo Press, Cairo : 2019)
- The Stela of Tjetji (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York : 2015)
- Ideology and Propaganda (Wiley Blackwell, Oxford : 2015)
- 30-Second Ancient Egypt (Ivy Press. New York : 2014)
- The Great Name. Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary (Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta : 2013)
- The Royal Titulary in the Eighteenth Dynasty: Change and Continuity (Brill, Leiden : 2010)
- The Cairo Stela of Sehetepibre (CG 20538): Borrowings and Innovation (Yale University Press, New Haven; University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia : 2009)