Carla Gabriella Mesa Guzzo

Carla’s doctoral thesis focuses on royal military pageantry in the Amarna and Post-Amarna Periods and how this relates to the conceptualization and practice of Egyptian imperialism. From 2014-2019 Carla researched and catalogued ancient Egyptian and Meroitic artefacts at the Royal Ontario Museum. She joined the University of Memphis and UQAM’s epigraphic project at the Temple of Karnak in 2019, and the Austrian Archaeological Institute’s excavations at Kom Ombo in 2021. From 2015-2021 her doctoral studies were funded by the Ontario Graduate Scholarship, as well as the Dr. Mercer Scholarship in Near Eastern and Islamic Studies in 2020.

Current Supervisor(s)

Katja Goebs

Dissertation Title

Performing Power: Royal Military Display in the Amarna and Post-Amarna Periods.

Presentations

• Imperial Pageantry in the Reign of Tutankhamun. the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities (2022)
• “Amazement of His Beauty in Every Body”: The Language of Amarna Period Royal Display. the American Research Center in Egypt’s Annual Meeting (2020)
• Maces and Daggers from the Royal Ontario Museum’s Egyptian Collection - Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities (2018)
• Night’s Cloak to Hide Me: Hiddenness and Darkness in Ancient Egyptian Love Songs. The 20th Annual Near and Middle Eastern Graduate Students’ Symposium (2016)

Teaching Experience

• Course Instructor - NML240Y1Y/NMC1201YY Introduction to Middle Egyptian (2019-2022)
• Teaching Assistant - NMC251H1 Voices from Ancient Egypt (2022)
• Teaching Assistant - NMC254HF The Mummy: Technology and Transformation (2015; 2019; 2022)
• Teaching Assistant - NMC101HF Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations I: Land of the Pharaohs (2016-2017)