T
ERRY WILFONG

Associate Professor of Egyptology
University of Michigan
Department of Near Eastern Studies
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
4016 Thayer Academic Building - Ann Arbor, MI  48104-1608
(734) 763-7654 - fax (734) 936-2679
twilfong@umich.edu


EDUCATION

1983-1985 University of Arizona.

1985-1994 University of Chicago, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures: B.A. 1987; M.A. 1989; Ph.D. 1994. Doctoral Thesis: 'The Woman of Jeme': Gender Roles in a Coptic Town in Late Antique Egypt.


EMPLOYMENT

2003-present  Associate Professor of Egyptology, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan.

1997-2003  Assistant Professor of Egyptology, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan.

1995-present  Assistant Curator for Graeco-Roman Egypt, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan.

1995-1997  Lecturer II, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan.

1994-1995  Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan.

1994-1995  Visiting Assistant Curator, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan.

1986-1994  Assistant Archivist, The Research Archives, The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.


EXTRAMURAL PROFESSIONAL WORK

1998-2001  Board of Governors, American Research Center in Egypt.

2000-present  Editorial Board, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists.

1996-99  Editor, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists.

1996-99  Board of Directors (ex officio), Executive Board, American Society of Papyrologists.

1997  Program co-chair and local co-organizer, Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

1992-1995  Editorial Assistant for American Society of Papyrologists publications.

1992-1993  Epigrapher and Surveyor, University of Chicago Oriental Institute Expedition to Bir Umm Fawakhir, Eastern Desert, Egypt.

1990-1991  Instructor, Oriental Institute Museum Education Program, University of Chicago.

1990  Guest Curator, Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago [for special exhibition: "Another Egypt: Coptic Christians at Thebes (7th - 8th Centuries A. D.)"]

1987-1989  Archivist and Bibliographer, Estate of Klaus Baer and the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago [for preparation of catalogues of Klaus Baer's library and Egyptological papers].


GRANTS AND AWARDS
     
1998-2002
 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant: "Casting A Wider Net -- Multimedia Courseware," [Overall coordinator, Frederick Amrine, University of Michigan], Middle Egyptian Section [P.I. Janet H. Johnson, University of Chicago, Researchers Terry Wilfong and Janet Richards, University of Michigan].

1999
 College of Literature, Science and the Arts, Excellence in Education Award, University of Michigan.

1999  Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies Faculty Fellowship, University of Michigan.

1996-97  Institute for Research on Women and Gender Faculty Seed Grant, University of Michigan.

1993-94  Mrs. Giles M. Whiting Dissertation - Year Fellowship.

1992-93
 Edward L. Ryerson Travel Fellowship.

1987-91
 U.S. Department of Education Jacob K. Javits Fellowship.

1987-91
 University of Chicago Century Fellowship.

1987
 Elected to Illinois Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.


PUBLICATIONS

Articles and Monographs: Published
Women of Jeme: Lives in a Coptic Town in Late Antique Egypt, New Texts from Ancient Cultures 2 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press) Fall 2002.

"The Post-Pharaonic Seals and Seal Impressions from Medinet Habu," Scarabs, Scaraboids, Seals and Seal Impressions from Medinet Habu, Based on notes of Uvo Holscher and Rudolf Anthes, Excavations at Medinet Habu VI, by Emily Teeter, Oriental Institute Publications 118 (Chicago: Oriental Institute Press), 2002.

"'Friendship and physical desire': The discourse of female homoeroticism in fifth century CE Egypt," in Among Women: from the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World, eds. Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Lisa Auanger (Austin TX: University of Texas Press, 2002) 304-329.

"Three Mummy Labels in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology," in Essays and Texts in Honor of J. David Thomas, eds. Traianos Gagos and Roger Bagnall, American Studies in Papyrology 42 (n.p., American Society of Papyrologists, 2001) 167-170.

Checklist of Editions of Greek, Latin, Demotic and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca and Tablets, Fifth Edition, by John F. Oates, Roger S. Bagnall, Sarah J. Clackson, Alexandra A. O'Brien, Joshua D. Sosin, Terry G. Wilfong and Klaas A. Worp, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists Supplements 9 (n.p., American Society of Papyrologists, 2001); online version available at: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/texts/clist.html

"Coptic Literature," "Faiyum," "Intoxication," "Journals," "Marriage and Divorce," and
"Oxyrhynchus," in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, ed. Donald B. Redford (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001) I:294-302, 496-498, II: 179-182, 209-211, 340-345, 623-624.


"Map 80: Coptos-Berenike" (with James G. Keenan and Steven Sidebotham; map and text), in The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman Works, ed. Richard A. Talbert (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000): Map 80 in the atlas volume and pages 1170-1180. 
    
Bir Umm Fawakhir Survery Project 1993: A Byzantine Gold-Mining Town in Egypt, with Carol Meyer, Lisa A. Heidorn, Walter E. Kaegi, Oriental Institute Communications 28 (Chicago: Oriental Institute, 2000).

"Synchronous Menstruation and the 'Place of Women' in Ancient Egypt (Hieratic Ostracon Oriental Institute Museum 13512)" in Gold of Praise: Studies on Ancient Egypt in Honor of Edward F. Wente, eds. Emily Teeter and John Larson, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 58 (Chicago: Oriental Institute Press, 2000) 419-434.

"Agriculture among the Christian Population in Early Islamic Egypt: Theory and Practice," Proceedings of the British Academy 96 (1998 [1999]) 217-235. Also published as monograph in Agriculture in Egypt from Pharaonic to Modern Times, eds. Alan K. Bowman and Eugene Rogan (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy 1998 [1999]).

"Fayum, Graeco-Roman Sites," in Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, ed. K. A. Bard (New York: Routledge, 1999) 308-313.


 "The Non-Muslim Communities: The Christians" in The Cambridge History of Egypt: Islamic Egypt: From the Arab Invasion to the Ottoman Conquest (641-1517), ed. Carl F. Petry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998) 175-197, 562-569.

[Coauthor] Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Sourcebook, general editor Jane Rowlandson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).

"Constantine in Coptic: Coptic Constructions of Constantine the Great and his Family" in Constantine: History, Historiography and Legend, eds. Dominic Montserrat and Samuel Lieu (London: Routledge, 1998) 177-188.

"Allen P. Wikgren" in Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 35 (1998) 123-124.

"Reading the Disjointed Body in Coptic: From physical modification to textual fragmentation," in Changing Bodies, Changing Meanings: Studies on the Human Body in Antiquity, ed. Dominic Montserrat (London: Routledge, 1998) 116-36.

Women and Gender in Ancient Egypt: From Prehistory to Late Antiquity. An Exhibition at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, with contributions by Geoff Compton, Traianos Gagos, Melanie Grunow, Janet E. Richards, Jennifer Trimble, and a preface by Abigail Stewart (Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, 1997).

"Coptic (Language and Literature)" in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, ed. Eric M. Meyers (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997): 2:65-67, 4:194-196.

"The Coptic Story of Theodosios and Dionysios," in P. Michigan Koenen (=P.Mich. XVIII): Michigan Texts Published in Honor of Ludwig Koenen, eds. Cornelia Romer and Traianos Gagos, et al., Studia Amstelodamensia ad Epigraphicam, Ius Antiquum et Papyrologicam Pertinentia, 36 (Amsterdam: Gieben, 1996) 351-56.

"Faiyum: Roman and Coptic Periods" and "Kircher, Athanasius" in The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Shoaf Turner (New York: Grove, 1996): 10:759-60, 18:76-77.

"Elinor Mullett Husselman" in Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 33 (1996) 5-10.

"Karanis on the World Wide Web: Bringing an Ancient Town into the 21st Century," Kelsey Museum Newsletter (Spring 1996): 6-7.

[Contributions to] The American Discovery of Ancient Egypt, ed. Nancy Thomas (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Art Museum, 1995): 227-230.

"Mummy-Labels from the Oriental Institute Museum Excavation of Medinet Habu," Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 32 (1995) 157-181.


Preserving Eternity: Modern Goals, Ancient Intentions. Egyptian Funerary Artifacts in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, edited and written with Janet E. Richards, including contributions by Geoffrey I Brown, Bryan E. Burns, Traianos Gagos, Elaine K. Gazda, Melanie D. Grunow, Alan J. Hogg Jr., Harry Jho, Paul Legutko and Jennifer Trimble (Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, 1995).


[Contributions to] "Gold, Granite and Water: The University of Chicago Oriental Institute Expedition to Bir Umm Fawakhir, 1992" by Carol Meyer, The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 52: Preliminary Excavation Reports: Sardis, Bir Umm Fawakhir, Tell el Umeiri, The Combined Caesarea Expeditions and Tell Dothan, William G. Dever, editor (n.p.: American Schools of Oriental Research, 1995): 37-92.

"Coptic Texts in the Oriental Institute Museum: A Preliminary Survey" in Acts of the Fifth International Congress of Coptic Studies, Washington DC, 12-15 August 1992: Volume 2, Papers from the Sections, Part 2, ed. David W. Johnson (Rome: CIM, 1993): 525-530.

"The Egyptological Papers of Klaus Baer," in For His Ka: Essays Offered in Memory of Klaus Baer, ed. David Silverman, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization, 55 (Chicago: Oriental Institute Press, 1992): 285-323.

"Two Weeks in the Eastern Desert: The Bir Umm Fawakhir Project, January 1992," The Oriental Institute News and Notes 136 (Winter 1992):10-12.

"Greek and Coptic Texts in the Oriental Institute Museum from the Exhibition 'Another Egypt'" Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 29 (1992):85-95.

Women in the Ancient Near East; A Bibliographic Survey of Recent Literature in the Oriental Institute Research Archives, Research Archives Bibliographies and Informational Documents, 2 (Chicago: The Oriental Institute Research Archives, 1992).

"The Archive of a Family of Moneylenders from Jême," Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 27 (1990):169-81.

"A Concordance of Published Coptic and Greek Ostraca from the Oriental Institute's Excavations at Medinet Habu," Enchoria: Zeitschrift für Demotistik und Koptologie 17 (1990) 155-60.

"Western Thebes in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries CE: A Bibliographic Survey of Jeme and Environs," Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 26 (1989) 89-145.

Articles and Monographs: Forthcoming
"New Texts in Familiar Hands: Unpublished Michigan Coptic Ostraca by Known Scribes," in Proceedings of the Sevents International Congress of Coptic Studies, ed. J. van der Vliet, Orientalia Lovanensia Analecta (Leuven: Peeters), forthcoming.

Book Reviews
Review of Karol Mysliwiec, Twilight of Ancient Egypt: First Millenium B.C.E. (Ithaca 2000), American Journal of Archaeology 106 (2002), in press.

Review of Guy Wagner, Elephantine XIII: Les papyrys et les ostraca greds d'Elephantine (Mainz am Rhein 1998), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 61:2 (2002), 128-129.

Review of Ian Shaw and Paul Nicholson, Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technologies (Cambridge 2000), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 38 (2001) 157-159.

Review of Svenja Gulden and Irmtraut Munro, Bibliographie zum Altagyptischen Totenbuch (Wiestbaden 1998), Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 38 (2001) 141-142.

Review of Gregor Wurst, The Manichaean Coptic Papyri in the Chester Beatty Library: Psalm Book, Part II, Fasc. 1: Die Bema-Psalmen, Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum, Series Coptica I, Liber Psalmorum Pars II, Fasc. 1 (Turnhout 1996), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 60:3 (2001), 203-204.

Review of Sebastian P. Brock and Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Holy Women of the Syrian Orient, paperback edition (Berkeley 1998), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 60:3 (2001), 204-205.

Review of Roger Bagnall, Egypt in Late Antiquity (Princeton, 1993), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 60:3 (2001), 201-203.

Review of Erik Horning, The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife (Ithaca NY 1999), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 00.04.25 available online at: <hppt://ccat.sas.upenn.edu.bncr/2000/2000-04-25.html>.

Review of Barbara Borg, Der zierlichste Anblick der Welt. . . : Ägyptische Porträtmumien (Mainz am Rhein 1998), Journal of the American Oriental Society 120.4 (2000) 665.

Review of S. Cauville, Le Temple de Dendara: Les chapelles osiriennes (Cairo 1997), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 36 (1999) 187-190.

Review of K. H. Kuhn and W. J. Tait, Thirteen Coptic Acrostic Hymns from Manuscript M574 of the Pierpont Morgan Library (Oxford 1996), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 36 (1999) 183-186.


Review of Lothar Störk, Koptische Handschriften 2-3 (Stuttgart 1995-6), Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 58 (1999), 307-309.

Review of Theodore Hall Patrick, Traditional Egyptian Christianity: A History of the Coptic Orthodox Church (Greensboro NC 1996), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 58 (1999), 216-217.

Review of Leo Depuydt, Conjunction, Contiguity, Contingency: On Relationships Between Events in the Egyptian and Coptic Verbal Systems (Oxford, 1993), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 58 (1999) 130-131.

Review of Günter Lapp, The Papyrus of Nu (London 1997), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 35 (1998) 111-112.

Review of Monika Hasitzka, Ein neues Archiv koptischer Ostraka (Wien 1995), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 35 (1998) 113-116.


Review of Birger A. Pearson, ed. Nag Hammadi Codex VII (NHS and Manichaean Studies 30: Leiden, 1996), Catholic Biblical Quarterly 60 (1998) 377-378.

Review of Günter Burkard, Spätzeitliche Osiris-Liturgien im Corpus der Asasif-Papyri: Übersetzung, Kommentar, Formale und inhaltliche Analyse (Wiesbaden 1995), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 34 (1997) 141-144.

Review of Pierre Grandet, Le Papyrus Harris I (Le Caire 1994), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 34 (1997) 137-140.

Review of Werner Forman and Stephen Quirke, Hieroglyphs and the Afterlife (London 1996), American Journal of Archaeology 101 (1997) 406-7.

Review of Roger S. Bagnall and Bruce M. Frier, The Demography of Roman Egypt (Cambridge, 1993) Journal of the American Oriental Society 117:1 (1997) 160-1.

Review of Michael Waldstein and Frederik Wisse, The Apocryphon of John: Synopsis of Nag Hammadi Codices II, 1; III, 1; and IV, 1 with BG 8502, 2 (NHS and Manichaean Studies 33; Leiden, 1995), Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 59 (1997) 179-180.

Review of Catherine Barry, La sagesse de Jésus-Christ (BG, 3; NH III, 4) (Québec, 1993), Journal of Near Eastern Studies (1997): 122-123.

Review of Adolphe Gutbub, Kôm Ombo I: Les inscriptions du naos (sanctuaires, salle de l'ennéade, salle des offrandes, couloir mystéreieux) (Le Caire, 1995), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 33 (1996): 203-204.

Review of Régine Charron, Concordance des Textes de Nag Hammadi: Le Codex VII, (Louvain, 1992) and Pierre Chérix, Concordance des Textes de Nag Hammadi: Le Codex VI, (Louvain, 1993), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 55 (1996) 216-217.

Review of Shafiq AbouZayd, Ihidayutha: A Study of the Life of Singleness in the Syrian Orient. From Ignatius of Antioch to Chalcedon 451 A.D. (Oxford, 1993), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 55 (1996) 220-221.

Review of Werner Vycichl, La vocalisation de la langue égyptienne, Tome Ier: La Phonétique (Le Caire, 1990), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 55 (1996) 221-223.

Review of Alexander Böhlig and Christoph Markschies, Gnosis und Manichäismus: Forschungen und Studien zu Texten von Valentin und Mani sowie zu den Bibliotheken von Nag Hammadi und Medinet Madi (Berlin/New York, 1994), Catholic Biblical Quarterly 58 (1996): 179-81.

Review of The Encyclopedia of the Early Church (Oxford, 1991), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 55 (1996): 146.

Review of Dwight Wayne Young, Coptic Manuscripts from the White Monastery: Works of Shenute (Wien 1993) and Monika R. M. Hasitzka, Koptisches Sammelbuch I (KSB I) (Wien 1993), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 32 (1995): 91-94.

Review of Gerald M. Browne, Old Nubian Texts from Qasr Ibrim III (London, 1991), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 54 (1995): 147-48.

Review of David Frankfurter, Elijah in Upper Egypt (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1993), Catholic Biblical Quarterly 56 (1994): 793-95.

Review of Christian Cannuyer, Les Coptes (Turnhout, 1990), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 53 (1994): 300-301.

Review of The Coptic Encyclopedia (New York, 1991), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 52 (1993): 43-47.

Review of William Brashear, Magica Varia, Papyrologica Bruxellensia 25 (Bruxelles 1991), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 30 (1993): 73-75.

Review of Monika R. M. Hasitzka, Neue Texte und Dokumentation zum Koptisch-Unterricht, Mitteilungen aus der Papyrussammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek (Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer), Neue Serie, XVIII. Folge (Wien 1990), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 30 (1993): 76-78.

Review of Bulletin de la Société d'Archéologie Copte, Tome XXX (1991), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 29 (1992): 221-224.

Review of Bulletin de la Société d'Archéologie Copte, Tome XXVIII (1986-1989), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 27 (1990): 183-87.



ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
[Coauthor]"Daily Life in the Eastern Roman Empire (100 BCE-100CE): Trade, Travel, and Transformation," online e-course by Sharon Herbert, David S. Potter, Terry Wilfong and Susan E. Alcock for the University of Michigan at fathom.com; see
http://www.fathom.com/course/35702802

[Coauthor] Checklist of Editions of Greek, Latin, Demotic and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca and Tablets, with John F. Oates, Roger S. Bagnall, Sarah J. Clackson, Alexandra A. O'Brien, Joshua D. Sosin and Klaas A. Worp (American Society of Papyrologists); ongoing beta version available online at: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/texts/clist.html

"Music in Roman Egypt;" online version of Kelsey Museum exhibition; Exhibition Curator: Terry G. Wilfong, Online Exhibition Designer: Adam Hyatt, at: http://www.umich.edu/~kelseydb/Exhibits/MIRE/MIRE.html

"Women and Gender in Ancient Egypt: From Prehistory to Late Antiquity;" online version of Kelsey Museum, Exhibition Curator: Terry G. Wilfong, Online Exhibition Designer: Peg Lourie, at: http://www.umich.edu/~kelseydb/Exhibits/WomenandGender/title.html

"Karanis Bibliography" (on-line resource for Kelsey Museum), at: http://www.umich.edu/~kelseydb/Exhibits/Karanis83/KaranisExcavation/Bib2.html


"The Art of the Fake; Egyptian Forgeries from the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology;" Exhibit Curators: Robin Meador-Woodruff, Terry Wilfong and Janet Richards, Exhibit Designer: Anne Noakes, at: http://www.ipl.org:80/exhibit/kelsey/


"Women in the Ancient Near East; A Bibliographic Survey of Recent Literature in the Oriental Institute Research Archives" [1995 on-line interactive vesion of 1992 publication; html markup by Ross Scaife and Suzanne Bonefas as part of the DIOTIMA Project], at: http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/WOMEN.HTML


EXHIBITIONS CURATED

"Archaeologies of Childhood: The First Years of Life in Roman Egypt,"to open at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, November 2003.

"Gender in the Ancient World: An Exhibition in Honor of the Reopening of Lane Hall as Home for the Department of Women's Studies and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender," Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, 13-27 October 2000.


"Music in Roman Egypt: Musical Instruments from the University of Michigan Excavations at Karanis," Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, 19 March-26 September 1999.

"Women and Gender in Egypt: From Prehistory to Late Antiquity," Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, in Cooperation with the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan, 14 March -15 1997.

"Death in Ancient Egypt: Preserving Eternity," co-curated with Janet E. Richards, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, opened 26 January 1996, new material added 10 April 1997.

"Preserving Eternity: Modern Goals, Ancient Intentions. Egyptian Funerary Artifacts in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology," co-curated with Janet E. Richards, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, opened 7 April 1995.

"Another Egypt: Coptic Christians at Thebes (7th - 8th Centuries A.D.)," The Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago, 3 October 1990 - 30 June 1991.


MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

International Association of Egyptologists
American Research Center in Egypt
Egypt Exploration Society
American Society of Papyrologists
International Association for Coptic Studies


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