TERRY
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.
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