Kathryn Bard Professor of Archaeology Director of Undergraduate Studies

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Kathryn Bard

Professor of Archaeology
Director of Undergraduate Studies

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Archaeology, Egyptian archaeology, Ethiopian archaeology, Origins of civilization

Education:

Ph.D. in Egyptian Archaeology, University of Toronto, 1987
M.A., University of Toronto, 1976
M.A., University of Michigan, 1974
B.F.A., M.F.A., School of Art, Yale University, 1971
B.A., Connecticut College, 1968

"Professor Bard is a recicpient of the National Geographic Society’s Chairman’s Award for Exploration (1998) as well as an elected fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010). She served as the co-director of the joint BU/IUO (Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli) project at Aksum, Ethiopia, 1993-2002. Here she excavated a number of sites, including a large elite residence and cemetery on Bieta Giyorgis Hill to the northwest of Aksum, dating to the late 1st millennium BC and 1st millennium AD. She is also co-director (with Rodolfo Fattovich) of excavations at the Middle Kingdom port of Wadi Gawasis, on the Red Sea in Egypt."

Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Interest

Late prehistory of Egypt; the origins of complex societies and early states in northeast Africa: Egypt, Nubia, and northern Ethiopia/Eritrea; the Red Sea trading network in the Bronze & Iron Ages.

Publications

2001 Some remarks on the processes of state formation in Egypt and Ethiopia. Co-author: R. Fattovich. In Africa and Afrcans in Antiquity, E. Yamauchi, ed., pp. 276-290. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press

2000 The emergence of the Egyptian state. In The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, I. Shaw, ed., pp. 61-88. Oxford: Oxford University Press

1999 Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt. London: Routledge (1999).
1997 Urbanism and the rise of complex society and the early state in Egypt. In Emergence and Change in Early Urban Societies, L. Manzanilla, ed., pp. 59-86. New York: Plenum

1994 The Egyptian Predynastic: an overview, Journal of Field Archaeology 21: 265-288

1992 Toward an interpretation of the role of ideology in the evolution of complex society in Egypt, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 11: 1-24