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Nicholas Brown

PhD Candidate

E-mail: nicholas.brown@ucla.edu

Nicholas Brown is an Egyptologist who was born and raised in California. After earning his bachelor’s degree in Cultural Anthropology from UCSB in 2011, Nicholas moved to Cairo, Egypt to study at the American University in Cairo. Once Nicholas finished with a master’s degree in Egyptology, he continued to live and work in Egypt as a free-lance archaeologist. His excavation experience includes working at numerous archaeological sites throughout Egypt (such as at Elephantine Island, Wadi el-Hudi and Deir el-Ballas), as well as funerary sites at Luxor, Amarna and Tombos, Sudan. In 2016, Nicholas spent the summer working at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston as the Terrace Curatorial Research Associate in Egyptology. After living in Cairo for five years, Nicholas was accepted to the NELC department at UCLA in 2017. However, Nicholas has been associated with UCLA for some time: his first archaeological field school was with the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology in 2011, and in 2013 he was a visiting graduate student in the NELC department.

Education

MA, Egyptology, The American University in Cairo
BA, Cultural Anthropology, Honors and Distinction in the Major, University of California Santa Barbara

Publications

Articles

Forthcoming: “Reevaluating Social Histories: the Use of Ancient Egypt in Contemporary Art.” In D. Candelora, N. Ben-Marzouk and K. Cooney (eds.) (Re)Building Ancient Egyptian Society. Challenging Assumptions, Exploring Approaches. New York, NY: Routledge.
Forthcoming: “The Beautiful One Returns: the Altered Identities of the Nefertiti Bust.” In F. Haikal, M. Abdel-Nasser, Y. El-Shazly, E. D. Abdou and F. Keshk (eds.) Egyptians’ Representations and Perceptions of Ancient Egypt: Towards an Antiquity Transmission and Reception Theory. Cairo: AUC Press.
Forthcoming: “Raise Me Up and Repel My Weariness! A Study of the Coffin of Thutmose III (CG 61014).” MDAIK 76.
Forthcoming: A. Veldmeijer, S. Ikram, N. Brown “Tutankhamun’s Sticks and Staves,” In T. Tewfik (ed.) Tutankhamun International Conference Publications. Cairo.
2019: “Quarrying.” In L. Sabbahy (ed.) All Things Ancient Egypt: an Encyclopedia of the Ancient Egyptian World. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Press. 437-440.
2019: “Sticks and Staves.” In L. Sabbahy (ed.) All Things Ancient Egypt: an Encyclopedia of the Ancient Egyptian World. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Press. 500-502.
2017: “Traversing into the Afterlife: Identifying a Wooden Fragment from the South Tombs Cemetery.” Horizon: the Amarna Project and Amarna Trust Newsletter, Issue 18, Autumn 2017: 12-13.
2017: “Come My Staff, I Lean Upon You: The Use of Staves for the Divine Transformation of the Deceased in the Ancient Egypt.” JARCE 53: 189-201.

Fields of Interest

Ancient Egyptian Art History and Iconography
Funerary Archaeology
Ancient Egypt in Modern Contexts
Museum Studies
Heritage Management/ Restitution of Cultural Property
Egyptian Arabic

Languages

English
Arabic (Egyptian Dialect)
French, German (Reading Knowledge)