Amanda Ladd

PhD Candidate
a.ladd@mail.utoronto.ca

Fields of Study

  • Egyptology

Areas of Interest

  • Ancient Egyptian Languages
  • Religious and Funerary Texts
  • Color and Color Words

Biography

Amanda Ladd is a doctoral candidate who specializes in ancient Egyptian languages with a particular love for grammar, paronomasia (puns), and teaching. Her research investigates the conceptualization of color and the use of color words in ancient Egyptian funerary texts. She has worked in various museums as the assistant director of the Indiana University Bloomington's Egyptian Heritage Digitization Project under Dr. Steve Vinson which create photogrammetric 3-D digital models of ancient Egyptian objects. 

Education

  • M.A. in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Indiana University Bloomington (2020)

Current Supervisor(s)

Katja Goebs

Dissertation Title

The Conceptualization of Color in Ancient Egyptian Funerary Literature

Teaching Experience

  • Course Instructor, NML240Y: Introduction to Middle Egyptian (2025-2026)
  • Course Instructor, NML240Y: Introduction to Middle Egyptian (2024-2025)
  • Teaching Assistant, NMC253H1: Egyptian Myths (2023 Fall)
  • Teaching Assistant, NMC101H1: Land of the Pharaohs (2022 Fall)