I am a historian of archaeology, museums, and photography. I am interested in how different people, at different times, have imagined, studied, and represented the culture we know as ‘ancient Egypt’. Formerly the curator of Egyptian antiquities at t
...MoreI am a historian of archaeology, museums, and photography. I am interested in how different people, at different times, have imagined, studied, and represented the culture we know as ‘ancient Egypt’. Formerly the curator of Egyptian antiquities at the Manchester Museum, University of Manchester (UK), I am currently Reader in Art History at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England. My award-winning book 'Unwrapping Ancient Egypt' (Bloomsbury 2014) offered a critique of how Egyptology has conducted mummy unwrappings and used mummies in museums, from the 18th century to the present day. My latest book, 'Photographing Tutankhamun', is a study of a photographic archive and the use of photographs in museum exhibitions; it will be published next year by Bloomsbury.
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