Howley C.V.
Kathryn E. Howley, PhD
[email protected]; [email protected]
CURRENT POSITIONS
Fall 2015
Lecturer, Rhode Island School of Design
History of Art and Visual Culture I, Department of History of Art and Visual Culture
2015-16
Visiting Research Scholar, Brown University
Department of Egyptology and Assyriology
EDUCATION
2015
PhD Egyptology, Brown University, USA
Dissertation title: "The Royal Pyramid Tombs of Nuri: Cultural Interaction
between Nubia and Egypt in the Middle Napatan Period". Advisor: Dr Laurel
Bestock
2009
BA (Hons) Classics and Oriental Studies (Egyptology), First Class, Worcester
College, University of Oxford
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Material culture of Egypt and Nubia; intercultural interaction; ‘identity’; material culture studies;
archaeological photography and the applications of digital imaging techniques
PUBLICATIONS
2015
Kathryn Howley, ‘Sudanic Statecraft? Political organization in the early Napatan
period’, Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 7.2. Peer reviewed
2014
Frood, Elizabeth & Kathryn Howley, 'Applications of Reflectance Transformation
Imaging (RTI) in the Study of Temple Graffiti’, in Pischikova, Elena, Julia Budka,
Kenneth Griffin (eds.), Thebes in the First Millennium BC. Newcastle upon Tyne:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Peer reviewed
2014
Kathryn Howley, ‘Disaster at Nuri’, Egyptian Archaeology 45. Reviewed by editorial
committee
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2015
History of Art and Visual Culture I
Lecturer, Department of History of Art and Visual Culture, Rhode Island School of
Design
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2014-15
Ancient Art in the Flesh: ancient art at the RISD Museum
Course instructor for pre-college summer course, Department of Continuing
Education, Brown University
2013
Black Pharaohs: Nubian Rule over Egypt in the 25th Dynasty
Course instructor for upper-level undergraduate course, Department of Egyptology,
Brown University
2013
Reflectance Transformation Imaging Workshop
Instructor for half-day workshop teaching highlight RTI at Joukowsky Institute for
Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University
2010-11
Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, Brown University
Teaching Certificate I Program
MUSEUM EXPERIENCE
2015
RISD Museum, Providence RI
Education Department, “Ways of Looking: Ancient Art”: session co-facilitator
2014
RISD Museum, Providence RI
Education department intern, conducting research on gallery use
2012
RISD Museum, Providence RI
Egyptological Consultant, Department of Ancient Art
2011-2012
RISD Museum, Providence RI
Curatorial Intern, Department of Ancient Art
2011
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
William Kelly Simpson Intern, Department of Egyptian Art
2010-
RISD Museum, Providence RI
Student Gallery Lecturer
2010
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Terrace Research Associate in Egyptian Art
2009
The British Museum, London
Curatorial intern, Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan
2008
New Art Gallery, Walsall, U.K.
Gallery Lecturer
2006-2009
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, U.K.
Intern, documentation department
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2004
The British Museum, London
Work experience, Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan
2003
Birmingham Science Museum, U.K.
Work experience on documentation project
EXTERNAL FUNDING AND AWARDS
2013
Centenary Award, Egypt Exploration Society. £1879.07 awarded for project “The
Royal Tombs of Nuri: Cultural Interaction between Nubia and Egypt in the Middle
Napatan Period”
2012
Grant for Reflectance Transformation Imaging Training Program, West
Semitic Research Project, USC (with Elizabeth Frood). Grant covered travel, training
program, and loan of equipment.
2012
Best Student Paper Prize, Winner, ARCE Annual Meeting 2012
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED LECTURES
2015
American Research Center in Egypt Meeting (Houston)
“Foreign Exchange: Egyptian objects and the currency of Middle Napatan royal
status”, 24th-26th April 2015
2015
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University. Brown Bag Series in
Archaeology
“Foreign Exchange: The Role of Egyptian Material Culture in Middle Napatan
Nubia”, 19th February 2015
2014
American Schools of Oriental Research Meeting (San Diego)
“Imports or Influence? Tracing the origin of royal tomb assemblages from Nuri”,
19th-22nd November 2014
2014
13th International Conference for Nubian Studies (Neuchâtel)
“Middle Napatan Foundation Deposits as Evidence of Cultural Contact”, 1st-6th
September 2014
2014
American Research Center in Egypt Meeting (Portland, OR)
“Text and Context: the status of writing in Middle Napatan culture”, 4th-6th April
2014
2013
American Research Center in Egypt Meeting (Cincinnati)
“Sudanic Statecraft? The political organization of Egypt in the early 25th Dynasty”,
19th-21st April 2013
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2012
American Research Center in Egypt Meeting (Providence)
“A Re-examination of Early ‘Sed Festival’ Representations”: Winner, Best Student
Paper Prize, 27th-29th April 2012
2012
Current Research in Egyptology XIII (Birmingham, U.K.)
“All Made Up? A Re-examination of the Function of Cosmetic Spoons”, 28th-30th
March 2012
2011
American Research Center in Egypt 2011 Meeting (Chicago)
“Tradition and Innovation: the Shabtis of the Nubian King Senkamanisken”, 1st-3rd
April 2011
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
LANGUAGES
Ancient: Latin, Greek, Egyptian, Akkadian (elementary)
Modern: Advanced French, intermediate Dutch, reading knowledge of German, elementary spoken
Egyptian and Sudanese Arabic
SOFTWARE
TMS collections management software, Filemaker Pro, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, MS Office,
RTIbuilder and RTIviewer (Reflectance Transformation Imaging software), Photoscan Pro (3-D
modelling software).
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ECHNICAL SKILLS
Digital photography, Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), digital infrared photography, Kite
Aerial Photography (KAP), photogrammetry.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Research Center in Egypt
Sudan Archaeological Research Society
Egypt Exploration Society
American Schools of Oriental Research
Professional Photographers’ Association
New England Museum Association
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