Kara Cooney
Kathlyn Mary Cooney (born March 8, 1972 ) is an American Egyptologist .
Life
Kara Cooney comes from Ireland on her father's side, more precisely from County Cork , and on her mother's side from Italy, her grandmother came from Abruzzo and her grandfather from Naples . She grew up in Houston and graduated from high school in 1990. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin . In 2002 she received her PhD in Middle Eastern Studies from Johns Hopkins University . At the same time she was working as a curator at the National Gallery of Art . She then taught as a lecturer at Stanford University and Howard University . She is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles .
She worked on two documentary series for the US television station Discovery Channel . 2009 for Out of Egypt and together with Zahi Hawass for Egypt's Lost Queen .
She took part in excavations in Deir el-Medina , Dahshur and Thebes .
With The Woman Who Would Be King. Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt she published a biography about the ancient Egyptian queen Hatshepsut .
She is married to television producer Neil Crawford. Their son was born in 2010.
Publications (selection)
- The Cost of Death: The Social and Economic Value of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Art in the Ramesside Period. Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, Leiden 2007, ISBN 9-062-58222-2 .
- The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt. Crown, New York 2014, ISBN 0-307-95676-8 .
Web links
- Kara Cooney's homepage at UCLA
- Kara Cooney's private homepage
- Kara Cooney in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Memorial High School Notable Graduates ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . From: mhs.springbranchisd.com , accessed October 19, 2014.
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SURNAME | Cooney, Kara |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cooney, Kathlyn Mary (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Egyptologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1972 |