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Solange Ashby
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s) Africanist, archaeologist
Academic background
Education University of Chicago
Bard College
Thesis Calling Out to Isis: The Enduring Nubian Presence at Philae (2016)
Academic work
Institutions UCLA
Barnard College
American University

Solange Ashby is an Africanist and archaeologist whose expertise focuses on language, religion and the role of women in ancient Egypt and Nubia. [1] [2] She is an assistant professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. [2] [3]

Career

Ashby studied for a BA in Intercultural Studies at Bard College at Simon's Rock. [4] She graduated with a PhD in Egyptology from the University of Chicago. [4] [5] Her doctoral research took place at the temple of Philae in Egypt, as well as excavating at the Kushite cemetery of El-Kurru in Sudan. [6] Her research examined the inscriptions, including graffiti, made by Kushite visitors, who traveled to the Egyptian temples in Lower Nubia. [6] [7]

In January 2021 she took up a position in the Department of Classics and Ancient Studies at Barnard College, New York, as an adjunct professor. [8] In 2023 she went on to become an assistant professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. [2] [3] She has held fellowships at the Catholic University's Institute of Christian Oriental Research and the American Research Centre in Egypt and has taught at the American University in Washington. [9]

She is also a co-founder of the William Leo Hansberry Society, which seeks to educate people of African descent about African antiquity. [2]

Media

In 2018, Ashby featured in a documentary directed by Taaqiy Grant, which looked at many aspects of Ancient Egyptian civilization, including its barter-based economic system. [10] In 2020, she featured in the film series Hapi, which focused on the role of economics in civilization. [11]

Publications

  • Calling Out To Isis: the Enduring Nubian Presence at Philae (2020) [12]
  • "Milk Libations for Osiris: Nubian Piety at Philae" in Near Eastern Archaeology (2019) [13]
  • "Dancing for Hathor: Nubian Women in Egyptian Cultic Life" in Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies (2018) [14]
  • "Meroitic Worship of Isis at Philae" (2011) [15]

References

  1. ^ "Solange Ashby, Academia.edu".
  2. ^ a b c d "Solange Ashby, Near Eastern Languages & Cultures – UCLA".
  3. ^ a b "Solange Ashby, Global Antiquity at UCLA".
  4. ^ a b "Adjunct Professorial Lecturer". American University. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
  5. ^ Westerfeld, Jennifer Taylor (2019). Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN  978-0-8122-9640-2. OCLC  1134074305.
  6. ^ a b "Solange Ashby | Smithsonian Journeys Expert". www.smithsonianjourneys.org. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
  7. ^ Graffiti as devotion along the Nile and beyond. Emberlin, Geoff, Davis, Suzanne. Ann Arbor. 2019. p. 76. ISBN  978-0-9906623-9-6. OCLC  1112375246.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) CS1 maint: others ( link)
  8. ^ "Gorgias Press". www.gorgiaspress.com. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
  9. ^ "Scholar". Women Also Know History. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
  10. ^ "بالصور.. شركة أمريكية تُصور فيلمًا وثائقيًا عن الإمبراطورية الفرعونية في أسوان". مصراوي.كوم. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
  11. ^ "CAST". Hapi Films. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
  12. ^ Ashby, Solange (2020). Calling out to ISIS : the enduring Nubian presence at Philae. Piscataway, NJ, USA. ISBN  978-1-4632-3968-8. OCLC  1157824314.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link)
  13. ^ Ashby, Solange (2019-12-01). "Milk Libations for Osiris: Nubian Piety at Philae". Near Eastern Archaeology. 82 (4): 200–209. doi: 10.1086/705360. ISSN  1094-2076. S2CID  212810285.
  14. ^ Ashby, Solange (2018-12-29). "Dancing for Hathor: Nubian Women in Egyptian Cultic Life". Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies. 5 (1). doi: 10.5070/D65110046.
  15. ^ Egypt in its African context : proceedings of the conference held at the Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, 2-4 October 2009. Exell, Karen. Oxford: Archaeopress. 2011. ISBN  978-1-4073-0760-2. OCLC  707825500.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: others ( link)

Further reading

Ashby, Solange (2018) "Dancing for Hathor: Nubian Women in Egyptian Cultic Life," Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies: Vol. 5, Article 2. Open access icon

External links

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