Ellen Morris

Clinical Assistant Professor of Egyptology
Academic Director, NYU semester abroad program in Egypt

em129@nyu.edu (212) 992.7803

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

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