Marc LeBlanc

Marc LeBlanc joined the ISAW administrative staff in December 2014 and is currently Associate Director for Academic Affairs. In this role, Marc administers ISAW's PhD program, visiting scholar program, and academic events. In addition, he manages PhD admissions, faculty searches, faculty affairs, and curricular issues at ISAW and serves as a member of ISAW's administrative leadership team, known as Cabinet.

Marc is the founding program director for ISAW's Expanding the Ancient World initiative, which currently includes a continuing education program for K-12 teachers and a community college outreach program.

Beginning fall 2017, Marc was appointed Adjunct Assistant Professor of Egyptology at ISAW. In this role, he coordinates ancient Egyptian language instruction at NYU and teaches introductory and advanced ancient Egyptian language courses.

He received his B.A. in Egyptology and Classics (Latin and Greek) from Brown University and his M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Egyptology from Yale University. His dissertation, a diachronic study of the Sed Festival in ancient Egypt, includes new translations of ancient texts describing the ritual performances of the Sed Festival and sheds new light on the prehistory of the Sed Festival and the development of royal iconography and ideology in Predynastic Egypt. His academic publications include “An Egyptian Priest in the Ptolemaic Court: Yale Peabody Museum 264191” (Co-author, David Klotz), in C. Zivie-Coche and I. Guermeur, eds., "Parcourir l'éternité". Hommages à Jean Yoyotte (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études, Sciences Religieuses 156; Turnhout: Brepols, 2012), pp. 645-698, and “The Zoomorphic Transformation of the King in Early Egyptian Royal Military Victory Rituals and Its Relationship to the Sed Festival,” in M. Massiera, B. Mathieu, and F. Rouffet, eds., Apprivoiser le sauvage – Taming the Wild (Les Cahiers  Égypte Nilotique et Méditérranéenne 11; Montpellier, 2015), pp. 229-243.

Prior to joining ISAW, Marc worked for three years in academic administration at the Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, most recently as Associate Director for Research Programs.