About
EDUCATION
University of Arizona 9/83 - 5/85
University of Chicago 9/85 - 12/94: B. A. (6/87); M. A. (12/89); Ph. D. in Egyptology, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (12/94).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CURRENT
Associate Professor of Egyptology, Department of Near Eastern Studies, and Associate Curator for Graeco-Roman Egypt, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan (2003-present).
PREVIOUS
Assistant Professor of Egyptology (1997-2003), Department of Near Eastern Studies, and Assistant Curator for Graeco-Roman Egypt, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, (1995-2003), University of Michigan.
Lecturer II (1995-1997) and Visiting Asst. Professor (1994-1995), Department of Near Eastern Studies, and Visiting Asst. Curator, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology (1994-1995), University of Michigan.
Assistant Archivist, The Oriental Institute Research Archives, University of Chicago, 1986-1994.
Epigrapher and Surveyor, University of Chicago Oriental Institute Expedition to Bir Umm Fawakhir, Eastern Desert, Egypt, 1992-1993.
Instructor, Oriental Institute Museum Education Program, University of Chicago, 1990-1991.
Guest Curator, Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago, for special exhibition: "Another Egypt: Coptic Christians at Thebes (7th - 8th Centuries A. D.)", 1990-1991
Archivist and Bibliographer, Estate of Klaus Baer and the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, for preparation of catalogues of Baer library and Egyptological papers, 1987-1989.
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND ACADEMIC AWARDS
University of Michigan, College of Literature, Science and the Arts and Office for the Vice President of Research Michigan Humanities Award, 2008.
University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts, Excellence in Education Award, February 2005.
American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship, 2004-2005.
Spatial Analysis/GIS Initiative, University of Michigan: "Spatial Analysis and the Archaeology of Early Civilizations in the Old World," Primary Investigators Susan E. Alcock, Sharon Herbert, Carla Sinopoli, Henry T. Wright; T. G. Wilfong as "Collaborator," 2000-2002
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant: "Casting a Wider Net-Multimedia Courseware", [for preparation of electronic teaching tools for less commonly taught languages; Overall coordinator, Frederick Amrine, University of Michigan], Middle Egyptian Section [P.I. Janet H. Johnson, University of Chicago, Researchers T. G. Wilfong and Janet Richards, University of Michigan], 1998-2002
University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts, Excellence in Education Award, August 1999
Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies Faculty Fellowship, University of Michigan, Summer 1999
University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Faculty Seed Grant: 1996-1997
Mrs. Giles M. Whiting Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities, 1993-1994
University of Chicago Edward L. Ryerson Travel Fellowship, 1992-1993
U. S. Department of Education Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, 1987-1991
University of Chicago Century Fellowship, 1987-1991
Elected to Illinois Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa June 1987
PUBLICATIONS
MONOGRAPHS
Women of Jeme: Lives in a Coptic Town in Late Antique Egypt, New Texts from Ancient Cultures (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002)
JOINT-AUTHOR MONOGRAPHS
Egypt from Alexander to the Copts: An Archaeological and Historical Guide, general editors Roger S. Bagnall and Dominic R. Rathbone (London: British Museum Press, 2004)
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, T. G. Wilfong and Klaas A. Worp, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists Supplements 9 (n.p., American Society of Papyrologists, 2001)
Bir Umm Fawakhir Survey Project 1993: A Byzantine Gold-Mining Town in Egypt, by Carol Meyer, Lisa A. Heidorn, Walter E. Kaegi and T. Wilfong, Oriental Institute Communications 28 (Chicago: Oriental Institute, 2000)
Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Sourcebook, edited by Jane Rowlandson with the collaboration of Roger Bagnall, Alan Bowman, Willy Clarysse, Ann Ellis Hanson, Deborah Hobson, James Keenan, Peter van Minnen, Dominic Rathbone, Dorothy J. Thompson and T. G. Wilfong (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
EDITOR
Series Coeditor, ?New Texts from Ancient Cultures,? University of Michigan Press, 2009-present.
Journal Coeditor, Bulletin of the University of Michigan Museums of Art and Archaeology 2005-present.
Coeditor, Checklist of Editions of Greek, Latin, Demotic and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca and Tablets, electronic resource at: <http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/texts/clist.html>
Editor, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, 33-36 (1996-1999).
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
"A New Text from Frange in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology," in Monastic Estates in Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt. Ostraca, Papyri and Studies in Honour of Sarah Clackson, ed. J. Clackson, P. Sijpesteijn and A. Boud'hors, American Studies in Papyrology 46 (in press)
"Gender in Ancient Egypt," in The Archaeology of Egypt, ed. Willeke Wendrich, Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009) 164-179.
"Two Shabtis of Pinudjem II, High Priest of Amun," Bulletin of the University of Michigan Museums of Art and Archaeology 17 (2007-2008) 86-89.
"A Coptic Account of Pottery from the Kilns of Psabt," Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 45 (2008) 231-243.
"Gender and Sexuality," in The Egyptian World, ed. Toby Wilkinson (London: Routledge, 2007) 205-217.
"Gender and Society in Byzantine Egypt," in Egypt in the Byzantine World 300-700, ed. Roger S. Bagnall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007) 309-327.
"Coptic Texts," in The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Egypt, ed. James P. Allen and Ian Shaw (Oxford: Oxford University Press), in press.
"Coptic Papyrology 2000-2004," in Huiti?me congr?s international d'?tudes coptes (Paris 2004): I. Bilans et perspectives 2000-2004, ed. A. Boud'hors and D. Vaillancourt, Cahiers de la Biblioth?que copte 15 (Paris 2006) 321-336.
"The Reply of Jesus to King Abgar: A Coptic New Testament Apocryphon Reconsidered (P.Mich. inv. 6213)" [with Kevin P. Sullivan], Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 42 (2005) 107-123.
"Two Coptic Tax Receipts from Jeme in the Kelsey Museum," Bulletin of the University of Michigan Museums of Art and Archaeology 15 (2003-2004) [2005] 88-91.
"Preface to the Second Edition" and "Revised Bibliography" in Karanis: An Egyptian Town in Roman Times, by Elaine K. Gazda, 2nd ed., Kelsey Museum Publication 1 (Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, 2004) v-vii, 46-50.
"Music and Musical Instruments," in The Seventy Great Inventions of the Ancient World, ed. Brian Fagan (London: Thames & Hudson, 2004) 220-224.
"New Texts in Familiar Hands: Unpublished Michigan Coptic Ostraca by Known Scribes,"in Coptic Studies on the Threshold of a New Millennium: Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Coptic Studies, ed. Mat Immerseel and J. van der Vliet, Orientalia Lovanensia Analecta 133 (Leuven: Peeters, 2004) I: 551-557.
"Women's Things and Men's Things: Notes on Gender and Property at Jeme," Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 40 (2003) 213-221.
"Sarah J. Clackson" [obituary notice], Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 40 (2003) 7-10.
"Stamps and Seal Impressions from the Post-Pharaonic Period" in 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, 2003) 199-224.
"'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.
"Map 80: Coptos-Berenike" [with James G. Keenan and Steven Sidebotham; map and text], in The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, ed. Richard A. Talbert (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000): Map 80 in the atlas volume and pages 1170-1180 in the text volume (= file "BATL080_.PDF" on the CD-ROM version).
"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) 419-34
"Agriculture among the Christian Population in Early Islamic Egypt: Theory and Practice," Proceedings of the British Academy 96 (1998) 217-235 [also published as monograph Agriculture in Egypt from Pharaonic to Modern Times, eds. Alan K. Bowman and Eugene Rogan (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy 1998)]
"The Non-Muslim Communities: The Christians" in The Cambridge History of Egypt I: 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.
"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" [obituary notice], 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.
"Elinor Mullett Husselman" [obituary notice and bibliography], Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 33 (1996) 5-10.
"The Coptic Story of Theodosios and Dionysios," in P. Michigan Koenen (P.Mich. XVIII): Michigan Texts Published in Honor of Ludwig Koenen, ed. Cornelia R?mer and Traianos Gagos, Studia Amstelodamensia ad Epigraphicam, Ius Antiquum et Papyrologicam Pertinentia, 36 (Amsterdam: Gieben, 1996) 351-56.
"Mummy-Labels from the Oriental Institute Museum Excavation of Medinet Habu," Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 32 (1995) 157-181.
[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.
"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.
"The Archive of a Family of Moneylenders from J?me," 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 f?r 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.
ENCYCLOPEDIA AND DICTIONARY ARTICLES
"Abu Nuwas," "al-Jahiz," "Susann, Jacqueline" (with Dominic Montserrat) in Gaetan Brulotte and John Philips, eds., The Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature (New York: Routledge, 2006) 1:3-4, 1:677-679, 2:1264-1266.
"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.
"Fayum, Graeco-Roman Sites," in Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, ed. Kathryn A. Bard (New York: Routledge, 1999) 308-313.
"Coptic (Language and Literature)" and "Oxyrhynchus Papyri" in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, ed. Eric M. Meyers (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997) 2:65-67, 4:195-196.
"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.
EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
Women and Gender in Ancient Egypt: From Prehistory to Late Antiquity. An Exhibition at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, with contributions by various authors (Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, 1997)
[Contributions to] The American Discovery of Ancient Egypt, ed. Nancy Thomas (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Art Museum, 1995) 227-230.
Preserving Eternity: Modern Goals, Ancient Intentions. Egyptian Funerary Artifacts in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, edited and written by Janet E. Richards and T. G. Wilfong, with contributions by various authors (Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, 1995).
ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS
"Elinor Mullett Husselman" and "Elizabeth Stefanski" in "Breaking Ground: Women in Old World Archaeology", ed. Martha Sharp Joukowsky, Brown University: URLs at:
<http://www.brown.edu/Research/Breaking_Ground/bios/Husselman_Elinor%20Mullett.pdf> and <http://www.brown.edu/Research/Breaking_Ground/bios/Stefanski_Elizabeth.pdf>
[Coauthor] "Daily Life in the Eastern Roman Empire (100 BCE-100 CE): Trade, Travel, and Transformation," online e-course by Sharon Herbert, David S. Potter, T. Wilfong and Susan E. Alcock for the University of Michigan at fathom.com; see <http://www.fathom.com/course/35702802>
"Music in Roman Egypt;" online version of Kelsey Museum exhibition; Exhibition Curator: T. G. Wilfong, Online Exhibition Designer: Adam Hyatt <http://www.lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/galleries/Exhibits/MIRE/MIRE.html>
"Women and Gender in Ancient Egypt: From Prehistory to Late Antiquity;" online version of Kelsey Museum exhibition, Exhibition Curator: T. G. Wilfong, Online Exhibition Designer: Peg Lourie <http://www.lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/galleries/Exhibits/WomenandGender/title.html>
"Karanis Bibliography" (on-line resource for Kelsey Museum) <http://www.umich.edu/~kelseydb/Exhibits/Karanis83/KaranisExcavation/Bib2.html>
"The Art of the Fake: Egyptian Forgeries from the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology;" Exhibition Curators: Robin Meador-Woodruff, T. Wilfong and Janet Richards, Online Exhibition Designer: Anne Noakes <http://www.ipl.org/div/kelsey/>
"Women in the Ancient Near East: A Bibliographic Survey of Recent Literature in the Oriental Institute Research Archives" [1995 on-line interactive version of 1992 publication; html markup by Ross Scaife and Suzanne Bonefas as part of the DIOTIMA Project]
<http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/WOMEN.HTML>
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of A. Boud'Hors, Ostraca grecs et coptes des fouilles de Jean Maspero ? Baouit (Cairo 2004), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 67: 3 (2008) 208-209.
Review of C. Heurtel, Les inscriptions coptes et grecques du temple d'Hathor ? Deir al-M?d?na (Cairo 2004), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 67: 3 (2008) 207-208.
Review of G. Schmelz, Kirchliche Amtstr?ger im Sp?tantiken ?gypten (M?nchen 2002), Bibliotheca Orientalis 62 (2005) 526-530.
Review of T. S. Richter, Rechtssemantik und forensische Rhetorik (Leipzig 2002), Scripta Classica Israelica 24 (2005) 315-316.
Review of P. Vernus, Affairs and Scandals in Ancient Egypt (Ithaca 2004), American Journal of Archaeology 109 (2005) 298-299.
Review of S. J. Clackson, Coptic and Greek Texts Relating to the Hermopolite Monastery of Apa Apollo (Oxford 2000), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 40 (2003) 237-239.
Review of A. Biedenkopf-Ziehner, Koptische Ostraka (Wiesbaden 2000), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 40 (2003), 233-236.
Review of K. Mysliwiec, Twilight of Ancient Egypt: First Millennium B.C.E. (Ithaca 2000), American Journal of Archaeology 106 (2002) 613-614.
Review of G. Wagner, Elephantine XIII: Les papyrus et les ostraca grecs d'Elephantine (Mainz am Rhein 1998), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 61:2 (2002) 128-129.
Review of E. W. Lane, Description of Egypt, edited by J. Thompson (Cairo 2000), Near Eastern Archaeology 64:4 (2001) 219-220.
Review of I. Shaw and P. Nicholson, Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technologies (Cambridge 2000), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 38 (2001) 157-159
Review of S. G?lden and I. Munro, Bibliographie zum Alt?gyptischen Totenbuch (Wiesbaden 1998), Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 38 (2001) 141-142.
Review of S. P. Brock and S. Ashbrook Harvey, Holy Women of the Syrian Orient, (Berkeley 1998), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 60:3 (2001) 204-205.
Review of G. 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 R. S. Bagnall, Egypt in Late Antiquity (Princeton, 1993), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 60:3 (2001) 201-203.
Review of E. Hornung, The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife (Ithaca NY 1999), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 00.04.25 available online at: <http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2000/2000-04-25.html>
Review of B. Borg, ?Der zierlichste Anblick der Welt...?: ?gyptische Portr?tmumien (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 L. St?rk, Koptische Handschriften 2-3 (Stuttgart 1995-6), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 58 (1999) 307-309.
Review of T. Hall Partrick, Traditional Egyptian Christianity: A History of the Coptic Orthodox Church (Greensboro NC 1996), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 58 (1999) 216-217.
Review of L. 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 G. Lapp, The Papyrus of Nu (London 1997), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 35 (1998) 111-112.
Review of M. Hasitzka, Ein neues Archiv koptischer Ostraka (Wien 1995), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 35 (1998) 113-116.
Review of B. A. Pearson, ed. Nag Hammadi Codex VII (NHS and Manichaean Studies 30; Leiden, 1996), Catholic Biblical Quarterly 60 (1998) 377-378.
Review of G. Burkard, Sp?tzeitliche Osiris-Liturgien im Corpus der Asasif-Papyri: ?bersetzung, Kommentar, Formale und inhaltliche Analyse (Wiesbaden 1995), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 34 (1997) 141-144.
Review of P. Grandet, Le Papyrus Harris I (Le Caire 1994), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 34 (1997) 137-140.
Review of W. Forman and S. Quirke, Hieroglyphs and the Afterlife (London 1996), American Journal of Archaeology 101 (1997) 406-7.
Review of R. S. Bagnall and B. M. Frier, The Demography of Roman Egypt (Cambridge 1993) Journal of the American Oriental Society 117:1 (1997) 160-1.
Review of M. Waldstein and F.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 C. Barry, La sagesse de J?sus-Christ (BG, 3; NH III, 4) (Qu?bec, 1993), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 56 (1997) 122-123.
Review of A. Gutbub, K?m Ombo I: Les inscriptions du naos (sanctuaires, salle de l'enn?ade, salle des offrandes, couloir myst?reieux) (Le Caire, 1995), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 33 (1996) 203-204.
Review of L. S. B. MacCoull, Studies in the Christian East in Memory of Mirrit Boutros Ghali (Washington DC, 1995), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 33 (1996) 205-206.
Review of R. Charron, Concordance des Textes de Nag Hammadi: Le Codex VII, (Louvain, 1992) and P. Ch?rix, Concordance des Textes de Nag Hammadi: Le Codex VI, (Louvain, 1993), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 55 (1996) 216-217.
Review of S. 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 W. Vycichl, La vocalisation de la langue ?gyptienne, Tome Ier: La Phon?tique (Le Caire, 1990), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 55 (1996) 221-223.
Review of A. B?hlig and C. Markschies, Gnosis und Manich?ismus: 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 D. W. Young, Coptic Manuscripts from the White Monastery: Works of Shenute (Wien 1993) and M. R. M. Hasitzka, Koptisches Sammelbuch I (KSB I) (Wien 1993), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 32 (1995) 91-94.
Review of G. M. Browne, Old Nubian Texts from Qasr Ibrim III (London, 1991), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 54 (1995) 147-48.
Review of D. Frankfurter, Elijah in Upper Egypt (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1993), Catholic Biblical Quarterly 56 (1994) 793-95.
Review of C. 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 W. Brashear, Magica Varia, Papyrologica Bruxellensia 25 (Bruxelles 1991), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 30 (1993) 73-75.
Review of M. R. M. Hasitzka, Neue Texte und Dokumentation zum Koptisch-Unterricht (Wien 1990), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 30 (1993) 76-78.
Review of Bulletin de la Soci?t? d'Arch?ologie Copte, Tome XXX (1991), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 29 (1992) 221-224.
Review of Bulletin de la Soci?t? d'Arch?ologie Copte, Tome XXVIII (1986-1989), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 27 (1990) 183-87.
PAPERS AND PUBLIC LECTURES PRESENTED
?The End of Everything in Ancient Egypt," presented at the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan, 30 March 2009.
"Exhibiting Life, Death and the Afterlife in Greek and Roman Egypt," presented at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, 12 February 2009.
"Anxious Egyptians: Personal Oracles as Indices of Anxieties in the Later Periods," presented Department of Near Eastern Studies Faculty Colloquium, University of Michigan, 4 February 2008; Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago, 6 February 2008.
"An Egyptian Funerary Ritual from the Roman Period: Papyrus Stevens in the Toledo Museum of Art," presented at the American Research Center in Egypt Annual Meeting, Toledo, 20 April 2007; earlier versions presented 3 April 2006 at the Ancient Studies Program, Indiana University; 18 November 2003, at University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Los Angeles, 24 February 2003, and Department of Near Eastern Studies Faculty Colloquium, University of Michigan, 28 October 2002.
"Men in a Coptic Town in Late Antique Egypt: Reexamining the Jeme Corpus", presented at the Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, April 14 2007.
"Wonders in the Service of Power in Ancient Egypt: Incidents from a Desert Expedition, circa 1990 BCE," presented at "The Powers of Wonder" Colloquium, Center for Humanities and the Arts, University of Colorado at Boulder, 9 March 2006.
"Jeme on the Margins of the Later Roman World: Language, Religion, Society and Material Culture in a town in Southern Egypt," presented at conference "At the Margins of Empire," Program on the Ancient Mediterranean World, University of Chicago, 18 February 2006.
"Writing a History of Ancient Egypt in the Later Periods," presented at the American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellows Meeting, Philadelphia, 12 May 2005.
"Coptic Papyrology, 2000-2004," plenary report (read in absentia by Elizabeth Bolman) for the Eighth International Congress of Coptic Studies, Paris, 29 June 2004.
"Detecting Sex in Late Antique Egypt: Ancient Informants and Modern Investigations," presented at "Feminism and Classics IV", Tucson, 7 May 2004, earlier version presented at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Toronto, 23 November 2002.
"Gender and Society in Byzantine Egypt," presented at the Dumbarton Oaks Symposium "Byzantine Egypt," Washington D. C., 28 April 2004.
"Musicians at Home: Music in a Domestic Context in Graeco-Roman Egypt," presented at the Annual International Egyptological Colloquium "Reconstructing Egyptian Life: New Knowledge from Ancient Sources," British Museum, London, 12 July 2002.
"A Coptic Account and the Kilns of Psabt: Textual and Archaeological Evidence for Pottery Manufacture in Late Antique Egypt," presented at the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, 12 June 2001.
"An Ancient Egyptian Afterlife at the University of Michigan," presented at the Dennos Museum of Art, Traverse City MI, 11 April 2001, in conjunction with the exhibition "Exploring Ancient Egypt."
"Musical Mysteries: Music in Ancient Egypt," presented at the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo OH, 1 April 2001, in conjunction with the exhibition "Eternal Egypt: Masterworks of Ancient Art from the British Museum."
"New Texts in Familiar Hands: Unpublished Michigan Coptic Ostraca by Known Scribes" presented at the Seventh International Congress of Coptic Studies, Leiden, 1 September 2000.
"Coptic Egypt: Christianity, Art and Culture from the 3rd through 11th Centuries AD," presented at the Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, 28 October 1999, also at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 9 November 1997, for the traveling exhibition "Splendors of Egypt."
"Hieratic and Hieroglyphic Papyri at the University of Michigan," presented at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt, Chicago, 24 April, 1999.
"Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt," moderator of panel presentation and discussion for the International Workshop on Papyrology and Social History, 16 April 1999, University of Michigan Library.
"Music in Roman Egypt," presented at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, 19 March 1999, with related presentations in the exhibition gallery on 27 March 1999 and 9 April 1999, the latter as part of the Department of Near Eastern Studies Faculty Colloquium.
"From Papyrus to Mummy-Bandage: Transforming the Egyptian Book of the Dead in the Late Period," presented at the Faculty Colloquium, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan, 13 March 1998.
"'Teaching Others' about 'Friendship and Physical Desire': Transmitting Lesbian Discourse in a Convent in Fifth Century CE Egypt," presented in the APA Lesbian and Gay Caucus panel "Transmitting Women's Culture" in the series "Gender and Sexuality in Antiquity" at the American Philological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, December 29 1997, earlier version presented at the University of Warwick Gay and Lesbian Studies Workshop, Coventry, 25 January 1995.
"Gendered Space in Ancient Egypt: From the 'Place of Women' to the Place Beneath the Stairs," presented at the Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan, 18 March 1997; Committee on Archaeological Studies Workshop "Elementary Structures of Everyday Life", University of Chicago, 8 May 1997.
"Hieratic Fragments from Karanis: An Egyptian Religious Handbook among the Greek Papyri" presented in the American Society of Papyrologists panel, American Philological Association Annual Meeting, New York, 29 December 1996.
"Death and the Threat of Eternal Extinction in Ancient Egypt: The End of Everything," presented at the American Research Center in Egypt Symposium "Death and Eternity in Ancient Egypt," New York University, 19 November 1996.
"The Christian Agricultural Workers in Early Islamic Egypt: in theory and in practice," presented at the conference "Land, Settlement and Agriculture in Egypt, from Pharaonic to Modern Times," St. Antony's College, Oxford, 19 March 1996
"Death in Ancient Egypt: Theoretical and Practical Strategies for the Denial of Eternal Extinction," co-presented with Janet E. Richards at the University of Michigan Faculty Seminar on the Theme Semester "Death, Extinction and the Future of Humanity," Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, 10 November 1995.
"Gender at Karanis: Women, Men and Difference in Roman Egypt," presented at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 21 March 1995.
"Haunted Space: Ancient and Late Antique Egyptian Conceptions of Site-Specific Supernatural Phenomena," presented at Birkbeck College, University of London, 29 January 1995.
"The Streets of J?me: Textual Evidence and Urban Archaeology in a Byzantine Egyptian Townsite," presented as part of the 'Texts and Townsites' panel at the 20th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Ann Arbor, 20 October 1994.
"The Disjointed Body: Constructions of Women's Bodies in Coptic," presented at the University of Warwick conference "Anthropometamorphosis: Modifying the Human Body in Antiquity," Coventry, 21 April 1994.
"From Ancient Temple to Late Antique Town: The Site of J?me in Southern Egypt," presented at Department of Classical Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 4 April 1994.
"Muslim Relations with the Coptic Town of J?me in the Early Islamic Period," presented at the American Oriental Society Annual Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin, 21 March 1994, earlier version presented at the Seventh Annual Middle East History and Theory Workshop and Midwest Faculty Consortium for Middle Eastern Studies Conference, Chicago, 8 May 1992.
"Neglected Evidence for the Regulation of Women's Sexuality in Late Antique Egypt," presented at the American Philological Association Annual Meeting, American Society of Papyrologists panel, Washington DC, December 28 1993, earlier version presented at the University of Chicago Ancient Societies Workshop, 9 March 1993.
"Women and the Monastery of Epiphanius in Late Antique Egypt," presented as part of the "Constructing Gender in Byzantium" panel at the Nineteenth Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Princeton, 6 November 1993.
"Constantine in Coptic: Egyptian Constructions of Constantine the Great and his Family," presented at the University of Warwick Centre for East Roman Studies conference "Constantine and the Birth of Christian Europe," Coventry, 20 April 1993.
"Women in Ancient Egypt: Objects from the Collection of the Oriental Institute Museum," presented at the Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago, 2 March 1993.
"Urbanism in Late Antique Egypt: Aphrodito, Fawakhir and J?me," presented at the University of Chicago Middle East Urbanism Workshop, 23 February 1993.
"Pottery Manufacture in Byzantine Egypt: Textual and Archaeological Evidence," presented at the 18th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Urbana-Champaign, 9 October 1992.
"Coptic Texts in the Oriental Institute Museum: A Preliminary Survey," presented at the Fifth International Coptic Studies Congress, Washington DC, 15 August 1992.
"Papyrology and Coptic Studies," presented at the Medieval History Workshop, Loyola University of Chicago, 3 April 1992.
"The Greek Mummy Labels from Medinet Habu," presented at the American Society of Papyrologists' panel at the American Philological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 28 December 1991.
"The Archive of a Family of Moneylenders from J?me," presented at the conference "Life in a Multi-Cultural Society: Egypt from Cambyses to Constantine (and Beyond)" held in conjunction with the Fourth International Congress of Demotists at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, 5 September 1990.
COURSES TAUGHT
Ancient Egypt in the Later Periods (ACABS 587: Ancient Egyptian History), Fall 2009, Winter 2007, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan.
Advanced Middle Egyptian (ACABS 585), Fall 2009, Fall 2002, Fall 2000, Fall 1998, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan.
Middle Egyptian II (ACABS 486), Winter 2009, Winter 2002, Winter 1998, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan.
Ancient Egypt: Religion and Culture (ACABS 261), Winter 2008, Fall 2005, Winter 2004, Winter 1999, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan. (On-line syllabus at:
<http://www-personal.umich.edu/~twilfong/Syllabi/Religion/ACABS26108.htm>)
Seminar in Ancient Egyptian Religion (ACABS 591: Topics in ACABS), Winter 2008, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan.
Introduction to Demotic (ACABS 591: Topics in ACABS), Fall 2006, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan.
Gender and Society in Ancient Egypt (ACABS 487), Winter 2006, Fall 2001, Winter 1998, Department of Near Eastern Studies and Program on Women's Studies, University of Michigan.
Middle Egyptian Texts (ACABS 682), Winter 2004, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan.
Ancient Egypt and its World (ACABS 281), Winter 2003, Winter 2001, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan. (On-line syllabus at:
<http://www-personal.umich.edu/~twilfong/Syllabi/History/ACABS281.html>)
Seminar in Ancient Egyptian History (ACABS 681), Winter 2003, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan.
Directed Undergraduate Readings: Gender and Queenship-Constructing Hatshepsut: Fall 2002, Egyptian text in context: Winter 2002, Advanced Middle Egyptian-The Book of the Dead: Winter 2001, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan.
Daily Life in the Eastern Roman Empire (100 BCE-100 CE): Trade, Travel, and Transformation, online e-course by Sharon Herbert, David S. Potter, T. Wilfong and Susan E. Alcock, April 25-June 25 2002, for the University of Michigan at fathom.com; see <http://www.fathom.com/course/35702802>
Middle Egyptian I (ACABS 485), Fall 1999, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan.
Coptic I (ACABS 521), Fall 1998, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan.
Directed Graduate Readings: Coptic Papyrology, Gender in Ancient Egypt, Archaeology of Roman Egypt: Winter 1998, Coptic Papyrology: Fall 1997, Coptic Manichaean Texts, Winter 1996, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan.
Coptic Documentary Papyrology: workshop/seminar with S. J. Clackson, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, 19-23 May 1997.
Coptic II (ACABS 522), Winter 1997, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan.
Egyptian Art and Archaeology (HISTART 437), taught with Janet E. Richards, Winter 1997, Departments of Classical Studies and History of Art, University of Michigan.
Women and Gender in Ancient Egypt: Artifact, Text and Image, Fall 1996, Undergraduate First Year Seminar, College of Literature, Science and the Arts, University of Michigan.
The Archaeology of Roman Egypt: Multi-Media Investigations of a Multi-Cultural Society, Undergraduate First Year Seminar, Winter 1996, College of Literature, Science and the Arts, University of Michigan.
UROP project: The Archaeology of Roman Egypt On-Line, Fall 1995, Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, University of Michigan.
Undergraduate Independent Study: Museum Research on the Art of Roman Egypt: Fall 1995, The Human Body in the Art of Ancient Egypt, Summer 1995, Department of History of Art, University of Michigan.
Women and Gender in the Ancient Near East, Summer 1995, Department of Near Eastern Studies and Program on Women's Studies, University of Michigan.
The Body and Sexuality in the Art of the Ancient World, Spring 1995, Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan.
Coptic Egypt II: From the Muslim Conquest to the Present, Winter Quarter 1991, Oriental Institute Education Program and University of Chicago Center for Continuing Education
Coptic Egypt I: From the Beginnings to the Muslim Conquest, Fall Quarter 1990, Oriental Institute Education Program and University of Chicago Center for Continuing Education
EXHIBITIONS CURATED
Permanent installation on Graeco-Roman Egypt, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, opening 1 November 2009.
"Archaeologies of Childhood: The First Years of Life in Roman Egypt," Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, November 14 2003-September 19 2004.
"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-12 December 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 June 1997
"Death in Ancient Egypt: Preserving Eternity," co-curated with Janet E. Richards, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, opened 26 January 1996, expanded 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
DEPARTMENTAL/MUSEUM SERVICE
Curriculum Committee, Dept. of Near Eastern Studies, 1999-2003, 2007-2009, chair 2000-2003
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Director of Publications Program, 2006-present
Department of Near Eastern Studies Library Committee, 2006-2007
Department of Near Eastern Studies Executive Committee, 2005-2007
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Executive Committee, 2003-2006
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Building Committee, 2003-2004
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Publications Committee, 2003-2006
Curatorial Meeting Manager, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, 1999-2002, 2005-2008.
Undergraduate Advisor, Ancient Civilizations and Biblical Studies Division, Department of Near Eastern Studies, 1997-1999
Admissions and Fellowships Committee, Dept. of Near Eastern Studies, 1997-1998
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Executive Committee, Interdepartmental Program for Classical Art and Archaeology, 1997-2000, 2006-present
Executive Committee, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, 1998-2001, 2006-2008, 2009-present
Classics/Ancient History Advisory Group, University of Michigan Press, 2007-present.
University of Michigan Press Executive Board, 2003-2006
University of Michigan Commencement Marshall, 2006
Committee for Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities, 2003.
Michigan Road Scholars Program, Office of State Outreach and Office of the Vice President for Government Relations, 2002
Working Group on Museum Studies, 2000-2001
Faculty Sponsor, Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, 1995
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL SERVICE
Executive Board, Writings from the Ancient World Series, Society of Biblical Literature, 2006-present.
Co-organizer: American Society of Papyrologists Summer Institute of Papyrology, University of Michigan, July 2009
Local Organizing Committee, 25th International Congress of Papyrology, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Summer 2007.
Consultant for American Council of Learned Societies History e-Book Project, 2006
Advisory Board, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, 2003-2006.
Board of Governors, American Research Center in Egypt, 1998-2001.
Editor, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, 1996-1999.
Board of Directors (ex officio), American Society of Papyrologists, 1996-1999.
Program co-chair and local co-organizer, Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 11-13 April 1997.
Referee for peer reviewed journals (Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, Classical Philology, Electronic Antiquity, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Journal of Early Christian Studies, Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Michigan Academician, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, World Archaeology) and publication series (American Studies in Papyrology, Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance)
Referee for grant/fellowship proposals: American Philosophical Society, National Endowment for the Humanities
Referee for academic press proposals and manuscripts for Blackwells, Cambridge University Press, Columbia University Press, Compass Point Press, Notre Dame University Press, Oriental Institute Press, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, University of Michigan Press.
