New York University

New York University

Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

Ellen Morris
Clinical Assistant Professor of Egyptology
em129@nyu.edu

Ellen Morris received her Ph.D. in Egyptian Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001. Since then she has published The Architecture of Imperialism. Military Bases and the Evolution of Foreign Policy in Egypt's New Kingdom as well as articles on the distribution of power at the dawn of the state, sacred and obscene laughter, the stagecraft of kingship, and social inversion in times of turmoil. She is currently working on her second book, Egyptian Imperialism, a book that examines selected episodes in Egypt's imperial history through a specifically anthropological lens. In the past, she has excavated at Abydos and Mendes, and she is currently is leading an archaeological survey that focuses upon Pre-Roman (mostly Old Kingdom) settlement in the environs of Amheida as part of the New York University Excavations at Amheida directed by Roger Bagnall. In addition to her teaching in New York, she is the Academic Director of NYU's semester abroad program Archaeology and History in Egypt and spends January through March of every year teaching in Egypt. Information on NYU's Spring Semester Abroad Program: Archaeology and History in Egypt

Anna L. Boozer
Assistant to the Director for Academic Affairs
anna.boozer@nyu.edu

Anna Lucille Boozer obtained her B.A. from St. John's College in Annapolis, MD, where she studied philosophy and the history of math and science. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University, focusing on daily life under Roman Rule in Egypt. She is an adjunct professor in the Department of Art History, NYU. Her current research takes place on domestic contexts at Trimithis (modern Amheida), a Roman city in the Dakhleh Oasis of Egypt. This research is part of the New York University Excavations at Amheida directed by Roger Bagnall. She has published several articles on memory, domestic contexts, and imperialism. Future research projects include an edited volume on one of the Roman Egyptian houses at Amheida as well as an edited volume on ancient empires.

Jennifer Y. Chi
Associate Director for Exhibitions and Public Programs
jennifer.chi1@nyu.edu

Jennifer Y. Chi received a Masters of Studies from the University of Oxford where she studied Early Roman Imperial Art and Architecture.  She went on to complete her Ph.D. at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University focusing on programmatic sculptural displays on public monuments in Roman Asia Minor.  She is the curator of ISAW's inaugural exhibition, Wine, Worship, and Sacrifice: The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani (2008), and editor of its accompanying catalogue, the first major English-language publication devoted to the art and culture of Vani, in ancient Colchis. A specialist in Roman imperial sculpture, she was a fellow of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she received her initial training in curatorial work. She is the former curator of the White-Levy Collection, and editor of and a contributor to Collecting in Context: Papers in Memory of Leon Levy (forthcoming 2008). Ms. Chi has curated several exhibitions that have toured nationally. A current area of special interest is ancient costume and its social and political implications as represented in art. She has recently completed chapters on Greek, Roman, and Etruscan costume for the Encyclopedia of World Costume (forthcoming 2008), co-authored with Larissa Bonfante

Tom Elliott
Associate Director for Digital Programs
tom.elliott@nyu.edu

Tom Elliott graduated from Duke University in 1989 with B.S. in Computer Science and a second major in Classical Studies. Following service as a Communications and Computer Systems Officer in the United States Air Force, he worked as a software developer and program manager for AEgis Research Corporation on a number of visual and engineering simulation projects. He received his Ph.D. in Ancient History from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2004, for research focused on the intersection of Roman documentary, administrative and geographic studies. His doctoral dissertation was entitled: Epigraphic Evidence for Boundary Disputes in the Early Roman Empire.

Tom has spent over a decade advancing the practice of digital humanities in ancient studies. In the late 1990s, he wrote database software that was used to prepare the alphabetical gazetteer and Map-by-Map Directory that accompanies the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (Princeton, 2000). During that period he also started the EpiDoc Community, which creates standards-based tools and guidelines for the digital encoding of epigraphic and papyrological texts like those published in the Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2007 or by the Integrating Digital Papyrology project. In August 2000, he was appointed as Founding Director of the Ancient World Mapping Center at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. In February 2006, Tom stepped down from this position to assume full-time leadership of the Pleiades Project, which is developing an online workspace for ancient geography. In 2008, he brought this role with him to the Institute, where he is also responsible for developing and overseeing a spectrum of innovative digital projects and services.

Tom's CV, publications, reading list and project web sites are best accessed via his NYU home page.

Charles Ellwood Jones
Head Librarian
chuck.jones@nyu.edu