Claudia Näser

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Claudia Näser (* 1970 ) is a German Egyptologist specializing in the archeology of Egypt and Sudan.

Claudia Näser studied Egyptology , Sudan archeology and classical archeology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Humboldt University Berlin (HUB) from 1989 to 1994 . Until 1995, a postgraduate course followed especially the African archeology at St. John's College of the University of Cambridge . There she obtained the title Master of Philosophy with the work Cemetery 214 at Abu Simbel North. A Case-Study of Patterning in Meroitic Lower Nubian Burial and the Interpretation of the Social Practices .

From 1996 to 2001 a doctoral degree in Egyptology followed at the HUB. The subject of her dissertation was The Everyday Life of Death. Archaeological evidence and text sources on funerary practices and looting of graves in Deir el-Medine in the New Kingdom . This was followed by an activity in the sub-project “An archeology of interactions. Nomadic groups, rural populations and Egyptian conquerors in Lower Nubia in the New Kingdom ”of the Collaborative Research Center 586 (“ Difference and Integration ”) of the German Research Foundation at the Egyptological Institute of the University of Leipzig . From 2003 to 2015, Näser taught as a visiting professor at the HUB, and from 2004 to 2012 as a junior professor. Since 2016 she has taught first as a Teaching Fellow in Egyptian Archeology and since 2017 as a Lecturer in Egyptian Archeology at the University College of the University of London .

Excavations led her to Dar al-Manasir , where, together with Frank Kammerzell, she led a rescue excavation in an area threatened by a new dam on the fourth Nile cataract (HUNE-Humboldt-University Nubian Expedition). Between 2005 and 2015, Näser also led the excavations in al-Musawwarat as-Sufra in Sudan and, since 2006, an archaeological mission on the Nile island of Mograt. Since 2017 she has also been carrying out excavations in Schalfak, a fortress of the Middle Kingdom in Lake Nasser.

She has been the editor of the Journal of Egyptian Archeology since 2018 (as of 2020).

Fonts

  • The everyday life of death. Archaeological evidence and text sources on funerary practices and looting of graves in Deir el-Medine in the New Kingdom. Berlin 2001. (unprinted dissertation)
  • Editor with Mathias Lange: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Archeology of the Fourth Nile Cataract. Berlin, August 4th - 6th, 2005. (= Meroitica, Volume 23), Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-447-05680-9 .
  • Editor with Cornelia Kleinitz: "Nihna nâs al-bahar - we are the people of the river". Ethnographic research in the fourth Nile cataract region, Sudan. (= Meroitica, Volume 26), Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-447-06891-8 .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ http://www.nomadsed.de/
  2. ↑ The Garden of Eden in Danger Investigations in Dar al-Manasir
  3. ↑ http://www.musawwarat.com/
  4. ↑ http://www.mogratarchaeology.com/
  5. ↑ The Egypt Exploration Society (EES) tender for the Chief Editor ended on December 31, 2017 (see JEA Editor-in-Chief: Expressions of interest sought. EES, November 6, 2017, accessed on February 24, 2020 (English) . ). For vol. 107 issue 1 (June 2018) is already being called Näser as Chief Editor (see. The Journal of Egyptian Archeology. EES, accessed on 24 February 2020 (English). ).
  6. ^ The Journal of Egyptian Archeology. Editorial Board. SAGE Journals, accessed February 22, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Näser, Claudia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1970