Jordan Galczynski - Near Eastern Languages & Cultures

Jordan Galczynski

Graduate Student

Jordan is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in ancient Egyptian material culture. Her research focuses on using an intersectional approach to better understand both elite identity but also marginalized groups– women, immigrants, lower status people– through the textile industry. Jordan has participated in archaeological excavations in Egypt, Israel, and Ethiopia. She served as registrar for the UCLA Coffins Project and is an educator for a museology field school out of the Museo Egizio di Torino.

Education

MA, Egyptology, University of Chicago
BA, Anthropology & Greek and Roman Classics, Honors, Temple University

Research

Production and Consumption of textiles in New Kingdom Egypt
Outward identity formation through the lens of dress; identity negotiation
Textile trade in the larger Eastern Mediterranean

Publications

Articles

Forthcoming: “The Value of Textiles in Maintaining Social Inequalities in New Kingdom Egypt,” Ancient Egyptian Art Studies: Art in Motion, a Social Tool of Power and Resistance ed. Special Issue of Arts.
2023: “Fashioning SenseScapes through Ancient Egyptian Dress,” in Textiles in Motion: Dress for Dance in the Ancient World, ed. Audrey Gouy (Oxford: Oxbow Books), 119-139
2023: “Orientalizing the Ancient Egyptian Woman,” in Ancient Egyptian Society: Challenging Assumptions, Exploring Approaches, ed. Dani Candelora, Nadia Ben Marzouk, and Kathlyn Cooney (Abington, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge), 152-162.
“Musicians and Dancers in Ancient Egypt” in Boyett, Colleen, H. Michael Tarver, and Mildred Diane Gleason, editors. Daily Life of Women: An Encyclopedia from Ancient Times to the Present. 4 Volumes. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO – Greenwood Imprint, 2020.
“Weavers in Ancient Egypt” in Boyett, Colleen, H. Michael Tarver, and Mildred Diane Gleason, editors. Daily Life of Women: An Encyclopedia from Ancient Times to the Present. 4 Volumes. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO – Greenwood Imprint, 2020.

Honors & Awards

2023 Dissertation Year Fellowship for Academic Year 2023-2024, UCLA
2022 Nominee, Distinguished Teaching Award, UCLA
2022 Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Research Grant, UCLA
2022 Dissertation Fieldwork Fellowship, Center for International Studies, UCLA
2022 Collegium of Undergraduate Teaching Fellows (CUTF), UCLA
2021 Mellon- EPIC Fellow- Digital Humanities, UCLA
2020 Mellon Foundation Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, UCLA
2019 Mellon-EPIC Fellow- Seminar in Teaching Excellence, UCLA
2019 Annual Meeting Travel Grant, ASOR
2019 Steinmetz Travel Scholarship, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
2018 Graduate Student Research Mentorship Fellowship, UCLA
2018 Summer Fellowship, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA
2018 Steinmetz Travel Scholarship, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
2017-2018 Graduate Student Mentorship Fellowship, UCLA
2017 Graduate Student Research Mentorship Fellowship, UCLA
2017 Steinmetz Travel Scholarship, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
2016-2017 Graduate Fellowship, UCLA
2015 Graduate Fellowship, University of Chicago

Fields of Interest

Textiles and dress archaeology
Elite identity display
Textile production and consumption from the Middle Kingdom to the New Kingdom
Textile trade

Languages

Egyptian | Old, Middle, Late, Hieratic (reading)
Coptic (reading)
Latin (reading)
German (reading)
French (reading)
Spanish (reading and speaking)