Dr Rachael J Dann

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Biography

Dr Rachael J Dann is a Visiting Associate Professor in Egyptian & Sudanese Archaeology at the University of Copenhagen, and Tutor in the Department of Continuing Education at the University of Oxford. She conducts research on the archaeology of death, identity, aesthetics and painterly practice. She was co-director of the International Kurru Archaeological Project which undertook archaeological research at the UNESCO World Heritage site of El Kurru in Sudan.

Qualifications:

Postgraduate Certificate: Working with Children, Young People and Families: A Psychoanalytic Observational Approach, Tavistock & Portman Clinic/Essex University

PhD in Archaeology: Aesthetics & Identity in the Mortuary Remains at Qustul & Ballana, Lower Nubia., Durham University

MPhil Oriental Studies (Egyptian Archaeology), University of Cambridge

B.A. (Hons) Archaeology, Durham University

Selected Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Dann, R. J. 2018. ‘Looking for Trouble: Art, Archaeology and Interdisciplinary Encounters’, The Senses & Society. Vol 13: 3. 299-316. , 2018
Dann, R. J. and Emberling, G. 2016. ‘El Kurru 2015-16: Preliminary Report’ in Sudan & Nubia. Vol 20. 35-49. , 2016
Emberling, G. and Dann, R. J. et al 2015. ‘In a Royal Cemetery of Kush: Archaeological Investigations at El-Kurru, Northern Sudan, 2014-15’ in Sudan & Nubia. Vol 19: 54-70. , 2015
Emberling, G. and Dann, R. J. et al. 2013. ‘New Excavations at El-Kurru: Beyond the Napatan Royal Cemetery’ in Sudan & Nubia. Vol 17: 42-60. , 2013

BOOKS

Dann, R. J. 2009. The Archaeology of Late Antique Sudan: Aesthetics and Identity in the Royal X-Group Tombs at Qustul and Ballana. New York: Cambria Press. , 2009
Dann, R. J. 2006. (ed). Current Research in Egyptology V. Oxford: Oxbow Books. , 2004
Kerner, S. Dann, R. J. and Bangsgaard, P (eds). 2015. Climate and Ancient Societies. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. , 2015
Dann, R. J. and Exell, K. (eds). 2013. Egypt: Ancient Histories, Modern Archaeologies. New York: Cambria Press. , 2013

BOOK CHAPTERS

Dann, R. J. el-Amin, S. and Emberling, G. 2022. ‘El Kourrou et Nouri: les necropolis des rois et des reines de Napata’ in Rondot, V. (ed). Moi, Taharqa, pharaon des deux terres. Paris: Louvre. , 2022
Dann, R. J. 2020. ‘The Body’ In Emberling, G. and Williams, B. B. (eds). The Oxford Handbook of Sudanese Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1033-1050. , 2020
Dann, R. J. 2020. ‘The X-Group in Lower Nubia’ in Emberling, G. and Williams, B. B. (eds). The Oxford Handbook of Sudanese Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 713-730. , 2020
Dann, R. J. 2018. ‘Recent work in the 25th Dynasty Tombs of Queen Qalhata and King Tanwetamani at El Kurru’ in Honegger, M. (ed). Nubian Archaeology in the XXIst Century. Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference for Nubian Studies, 2014. Orientalia Lovaniensa Analecta, 273. Leuven: Peeters. , 2018

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Cambridge
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