Briana C. Jackson
EGYPTOLOGIST - EDITOR - VIDEO CREATOR - ARCHAEOGAMER - DIGITAL HUMANITIES - FOUNDER OF PER-HAY STUDIO
Briana Jackson holds a PhD in Egyptian art and archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She has taught courses at New York University, City College New York, Manhattanville College, and (currently) Pratt Institute, Baruch College CUNY, and the University of Hartford on topics and surveys on ancient Egypt, Roman history, and art history, and has worked for the IFA-NYU/Princeton North Abydos Expedition on artifact processing, archiving, and surface collection. Her research interests are in Egyptian solar and lunar religion, the Amarna Period, international relations during the second millennium BCE, and archaeogaming. Her dissertation examined the spread of Atenism throughout Egypt and Sudan, how Aten temples across this space are connected, and what effect the cult had on society. Currently, she has been publishing articles based on her dissertation, and is also working on turning it into a book. Her archaeogaming interests focus on the representation of state development, urbanization, and power systems in games set in antiquity.
Current affiliations
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Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute
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Adjunct Assistant Professor at Baruch College, CUNY
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Adjunct Faculty at the University of Hartford
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Website management and editing for the Temple of Ramesses II Temple in Abydos, New York University
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Editorial team member of Estudios Orientales - Monografías / Red Iberoamericana de Investigadores en Próximo Oriente Antiguo
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Port Ancient partner with Save Ancient Studies Alliance
Publications
Forthcoming
"The Smiting Kiosks on the Royal Boats of Akhenaten and Nefertiti" (publication details confidential at present)
"Akhenaten and His Aten Cult in Abydos and Akhmim" (De Gruyter, projected 2022)
2022
"Aten, the Sole God." Ancient History Magazine 41, 22-25.
"Akhenaten's Temple Program." The Akhenaten Sun 27 no. 2 (2022), 1-14.
2021
The Geographic and Social Spread of Aten Cult throughout Egypt and Sudan (PhD dissertation, New York University)
2018
Obduction: Walkthrough Guide. Morrisville, North Carolina: Lulu Press, lulu.com.
2016
Review: Mary Ann Eaverly. Tan Men/Pale Women: Color and Gender in Archaic Greece and Egypt, a Comparative Approach. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2013. caa.reviews.
2013
"Universalizing Tendencies and the Exchange of Art and Luxury Goods in the Reigns of Amenhotep III and Akhenaten” (MA thesis, New York University).
2011
Co-authored with Marinatos, Nanno. “The Pseudo-Minoan Nestor Ring and Its Egyptian Iconography.” Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections. Vol. 3:2 (2011), 6-15.