Alumni - M.A. in Egyptian Art
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| Name | Year | Thesis Title |
| Margaret Nutt Moore (Advisor: ) |
1994 | An examination of the botanical identification, style, and iconographical significance of the upper Egyptian heraldic emblem the Swt |
| Mary Louise Moore-Haney | 1995 | A proposed date for a limestone relief of a head of a Nubian from the Albert Gallatin Collection |
| Doris Layne | 1996 | Exploring the question of narrative in Egyptian art |
| Christopher Williams | 1996 | Bes as a protector of the dead and the resurrection |
| Pamela J. Wilson | 1997 | A new interpretation of the solar and osirian roles of the four sons of Horus as active participants in the afterlife transformation |
| Mary Ann Marazzi | 1998 | A reconstruction of the ritual involving the "išd" tree scene and its importance in New Kingdom Egypt |
| David Seifert | 1999 | Construction techniques and materials involved in the manufacture of low stools in New Kingdom Egypt |
| Ann Michelle Marlar | 1999 | Exploring the symbolism of Egyptian "new year's" bottles |
| Anne Igoe | 1999 | The origins and evolution of the griffin motif in Egyptian art : from the Predynastic to the early New Kingdom |
| Michelle McClenny | 2000 | A child's coffin (Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, 1921.5A): a study in authenticity |
| Amy Meilleur | 2000 | A re-examination of the chariot of Thutmosis IV |
| Tammy Hilburn | 2001 | Amarna style and the cult of fertility : canopics, anatomy and the legitimization of kinship during the reign of Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten |
| Jane Hill | 2001 | Cylinder seal glyptic in predynastic Egypt and neighboring regions |
| Daniel Cole | 2001 | Same gender equality in Old Kingdom tombs |
| Heather Reeves | 2002 | A stela of Khaemwaset and evidence of private worship in Late New Kingdom Memphis |
| Kevin L. Johnson | 2002 | An examination of the sarcophagus of a New Kingdom official, Menna: Its archaeological context, reconstruction, and iconographic program |
| Merit Huey | 2003 | A stylistic study of a bust of Ramesses III, MFA29.733 |
| William Clifford | 2003 | The four principal themes of ancient Egyptian funerary belief and their expression in coffin decoration |
| Susan Allison | 2003 | An examination of the three Nedjemu statues from the Great Western Cemetery at Giza |
| Jared Krebsbach | 2003 | The Darius statue from Susa: A study of socio-political relations between ruler and subject in Egypt's Twenty-Seventh Dynasty |
| Liz Cummins | 2003 | The iconography of the Serapis Cult in the Main Catacomb of Kom el Shoqafa, Alexandria |
| Amanda Leenerts | 2003 | The First Intermediate Period coffin of Ibwi, priestess of Hathor, from Mesheikh, Egypt, tomb 123, room B |
| Eric McCann | 2003 | The offering table of Nastasen: A glimpse into the royal funerary cult of ancient Sudan |
| Brian E. Smith | 2003 | The shrine of Yegegi: Uniting sculpture and architecture in Old Kingdom art |
| Laura Deneke | 2004 | The motif of pharaoh astride a cat |
| Lori Francz | 2005 | A study of two non-royal faience pectorals (1988.14.50 and 1988.14.51 a-k) in the collection of the University of Memphis |
| Christine End | 2006 | The mirror standard: Reflections of the divine in ancient Egypt |
| Dennis O'Connor | 2006 | Queen Meresankh III and her tomb paintings by Joseph Lindon Smith |
| Sharon Nichols | 2006 | The divergent double pipe: A musical instrument of the Egyptian New Kingdom and Late Period |
| Flora Hesse | 2007 | The iconography and use of the sistrum in the pharaonic period |
| Jobie Hill | 2007 | An architectural reconstruction of mastaba G 2381 |
| Andrea ("Annie") Shanley | 2007 | A unique royal head revisited |
| Lionel Jacob Shock | 2007 | Pairy, an official of the God's Wife of Amun in the early Eighteenth Dynasty |
| Alison Kurth | 2007 | A study of a relaxed recumbent lion statue in the Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology at the University of Memphis 1990.1.31 |
| Erin Peters | 2007 | Vessels 2002.1.72, 2002.1.73 and 2002.1.74 in the collection of the Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology at the University of Memphis and the royal foundation deposits of Hatshepsut |
| Sarah Schellinger | 2007 | Two royal ushabtis of the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty and the Napatan Period in the collection of the Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology at the University of Memphis (1981.1.39 and 1981.1.41) |
| Victoria A. Russell | 2007 | Foreigners in the tomb of Rekhmire (Theban Tomb 100) |
| Erin Sauer | 2008 | Animal mummies from the Late, Ptolemaic and Roman Periods in Egypt: A study of wrapping styles and their meaning |
| Kelly Bozarth | 2008 | Head case: A study of a head of Amun (IEAA 1990.4.1) |
| Patrick Salland | 2008 | Pharaoh's grapes: A study of faience decorative grape clusters |
| Megan Lowery | 2008 | An examination of the tree of life motif on an intaglio gemstone (1993.3.3) in the collection of the Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology at the University of Memphis |
| Cara Linda Mitchell | 2008 | Royal mortuary complexes of the New Kingdom: An examination of their architecture, design and meaning |
| Tiffany Redman | 2008 | A study of theriomorphic stone vessels in Predynastic Egypt |
| Nicole Vaughn | 2008 | Amulets of Amun: Daily or mortuary significance? |
| Sarah Pitt Kaplan | 2008 | From a King to a God: A study of a Late Period bronze statue from the St. Louis Art Museum |
| Sarah Chandlee | 2009 | Walking through the afterlife: A study of the scenes where Anubis leads the deceased to Osiris |
| Christine DuMars | 2009 | The First Intermediate Period stela of Iku and Mer-imat |
| Joseph Lafayette Gaston | 2009 | A study of bull's tails and bovine furniture supports in the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods |
| Lana Higbee Hill | 2009 | Their heads to keep: A study and catalogue of decorated ancient Egyptian headrests |
| Lacy Jones | 2009 | The memory of the dead: A study of Theban tomb 192 |
| Danielle Phelps | 2009 | Landscape representation in Ancient Egyptian Art: The investigation of the "destroyed unnamed town and its devastated landscape" relief at Luxor Temple |
| Lindsey Schifko | 2009 | Ba birds, shadows, and black hole suns: Interpreting a complex representation of spell 92 from the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead |
| Meghan Strong | 2009 | Let there be light: A study of natural and artificial light in New Kingdom Egypt (1570-1070 B.C.) |
| Elizabeth McDonald | 2009 | An analysis of a shabti of Amenhotep III (MFA 4.1854) |
| Jennifer Butterworth | 2010 | The children of the king: An analysis of the identity and ritual role of the msw nswt in pharaonic Egypt |
| Sarah Chapman | 2010 | The role of the bead-net shroud within late Twenty-sixth Dynasty Egyptian burials |
| A.J. Walker | 2010 | The iconography and role of serpents in Ancient Egypt: The serpent demon Apophis |
| Rachel Benkowski | 2011 | The sun queen's trademark: A study of the tall blue crown of Queen Nefertiti |
| Melissa Boyschou | 2011 | Destruction by fire: Interpreting the Lake of Fire vignette from two Twenty-First Dynasty funerary papyri |
| Rosa Erika Feleg | 2011 | Features of the early relief decoration of Ramesses II at the Karnak Hypostyle Hall and the Ramesside forecourt at Luxor Temple |
| Branden Fjerstad | 2011 | The 'Window of Appearance' re-opened: New perspectives on a New Kingdom royal venue |
| Sarah Krueger | 2011 | Embracing the West: an ancient Egyptian family's transition to the afterlife. |
| Lindsay Vosburg Ocal | 2011 | The Sistrum as a Marker of the Divine Nature of Queenship in the Amarna Period |
| Luke Breinig | 2012 | Astronomy, cosmology, and religious expression in the New Kingdom: A study of late Ramesside cosmological funerary scenes |
| Grace Lahneman | 2012 | The social, economic, and political connotations of the tomb of Huy (Theban Tomb 40) for foreign relations with ancient Nubia in the 18th Dynasty |
| Andrew Shilling | 2012 | Constructing the cosmos: The role of the Egyptian king in the Foundation Ceremony |
| Elissa Ferguson | 2012 | Time and meaning: The use of the fishing and fowling scene through time in ancient Egyptian non-royal tombs |
| Aaron Smith | 2012 | An analysis of the alteration of style during the later Old Kingdom and late Eighteenth Dynasty |
| Andrea Middleton | 2013 | Representations of time in the temple of Hathor at Dendera: Iconographical analyses of the two astronomical ceilings in terms of Neheh and Djet |
| Alec Noah | 2013 | A preliminary study of the inner coffin and mummy cover of Nesytanebettawy from Bab el-Gusus (A.9) in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. |
| Christopher Stelter | 2013 | Obtained by one's own hands: a theory on the Middle Class of ancient Egypt and funerary stelae of the First Intermediate Period |
| Megan Valentine | 2013 | An examination of a coffin fragment in the collection of the Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology at the University of Memphis |
| Elizabeth Golden | 2014 | Nut, the zodiac, and Sothis: An Iconographical Analysis of Five Coffin Lids from the Roman Period Soter Group |
| Brandi Hill | 2014 | The evolution of royal female power from the late Old Kingdom through the Twelfth Dynasty |
| Ashley Stanton | 2014 | "Legless birds": a re-examination of the motivating factors behind hieroglyphic "mutilation" |
| Remi Chan | 2015 | Peculiar Primates: An Analysis of Old Kingdom Tomb Decoration Using Unusual Scenes with Primates |
| Brooke Garcia | 2015 | A Study of the Copper-Alloy Statuette of a Striding King from the Collection of the Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology at the University of Memphis (UM/IEAA 1990.1.29) |
| Katlyn Greiner | 2015 | Reweaving the History of Two Late Antique Egyptian Textiles: An Analysis on Textile Fragments from the Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology at The University of Memphis (2004.1.4) and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (294-1887) |
| Robyn Price | 2015 | "Your Scent is as Their Scent." The Invisible Presence in New Kingdom Egyptian Art |
| Jessica Johnson | 2016 | Intertwined Demons: The Relationship between Gate Guardians and the Demon Ammit in Nineteenth Dynasty Book of the Dead as Expressed through Synecdoche |
| Carolina Quintana | 2016 | The Use of an Ancient Egyptian Amulet for the Living: University of Memphis (1994.4.268) |
| Amber Ward | 2017 | Time After Time: an Iconographical Analysis of Images of Time and Eternity in the New Kingdom Netherworld Books |
| Tanya Olson | 2018 | The Trickster and the Tricked: Agency versus Passivity in Egyptian Representations of the God Seth |
| Alexandria Salisbury | 2018 | Behind Every Man is a Strong Woman: Reconsidering the form and function of Old Kingdom Dyads from Giza |
| Arabela Baer | 2018 | Botanical Collars and Garlands and Their Representations in the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period |
| Rachel Suddreth | 2019 | A Study of the Loop Sistrum (Accession Number 1994.4.26) at the University of Memphis |
| Paige Brevick | 2019 | Feeding the Pharaohs: A Discussion and Object Study of Fowl Victual Mummies from Ancient Egypt |
| Cannon Aileen Fairbairn | 2020 | Communicating Power through Text and Iconography: A Suckling Scene from the Temple of Seti I at Abydos |
| Melissa Marie Thiringer | 2020 | An Egyptian's Best Friend? An Analysis and Discussion of the Depiction of the Domestic Dog in Ancient Egypt |
| JoLynne Minnick | 2021 | The Dying Sun: An Iconographical Analysis of the Solar Barque at Sunset in the Cosmological Books of the New Kingdom |
| Branson Dale Anderson | 2021 | A Part of the Family: Funerary Preparations for Children and Adolescents in Late Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt |
| Katherine Margaret Consola | 2021 | A Lasting Impression? A Study of Middle Kingdom Seal Impressions from Elephantine Island |
| Bethany Jensen | 2022 | |
| Luke Trull | 2023 | |
| Paige Nehls | 2023 |
Going to Her Ka: A New Identification of the Pair Statues in the Tomb of Meresankh III |
| Kathrine Gosnell | 2023 | |
| Rachel Pinkman | 2024 |
A PXRF, FTIR and SEM/EDS Analysis of the White Pigment on White Cross-Lined Ware |