Education
PhD, Egyptian Archaeology, Leiden University (1999)
MA, History of Religion (specialization in ancient Egyptian religion, archaeology, language and philosophy of science), University of Amsterdam (1988)
Research
- Archaeology
- Ethno-archaeology
- Egypt in Africa
- Digital Humanities
- Three-dimensional digital representation of data and arguments
Publications
Books
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- Archaeology and Apprenticeship
- Body Knowledge, Identity, and Communities of Practice
- The University of Arizona Press, 2013
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- Egyptian Archaeology
- Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
Additional Books
- The Archaeology of Mobility: Nomads in the Old and in the New World. Co-authored with Hans Bernard. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Publications, 2008.
- Berenike 1999 / 2000, Report on the Excavations at Berenike, including Excavations in Wadi Kalalat and Siket and the Survey of the Emerald Mine Settlements of the Mons Smaragdus Region. Co-edited with Steven E. Sidebotham. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Publications, 2007.
- The World According to Basketry. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Publications, 1999.
Articles, Essays and Book Chapters
- Simon Holdaway and Willeke Wendrich, The Desert Fayum Revisited, submitted at the Cotsen Insitute of Archaeology Press. Forthcoming
- Barnard, W.Z. Wendrich, A. Winkels, J.E.M.F. Bos, B.L. Simpson, and R.T.J. Cappers. “The Preservation of Exposed Mudbrick Architecture in Karanis (Kom Aushim), Egypt.” Journal of Field Archaeology 40, issue 3 (2016).
- Wendrich, Willeke, Jacco Dieleman and Elizabeth Waraksa. Ideas Concerning a New Egyptological Knowledge Base: The UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology (UEE). In: P. Kousoulis and N. Lazaridis. Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Egyptologists. University of the Aegean, Rhodes, 22-29 May 2008. Vol. 1. pp. 2234-2241 Leuven, Paris, Bristol, CT: Peeters, 2015.
- Shirai, Noriyuki, Willeke Wendrich and René Cappers. An Archaeological Survey in the Northeastern Part of the Fayum. In: P. Kousoulis and N. Lazaridis. Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Egyptologists. University of the Aegean, Rhodes, 22-29 May 2008. Vol. I. pp. 459-474. Leuven, Paris, Bristol, CT: Peeters. pp. 459-474.
- Elgewely, Eiman and Willeke Wendrich. Virtually United in Real Time: Museum Collections and Archaeological Context Explored. Digital Heritage 2015.
- Willeke Wendrich, Bethany Simpson, Eiman Elgewely, Karanis in 3D: Recording, Monitoring, Recontextualizing, and the Representation of Knowledge and Conjecture. In: Near Eastern Archaeology 77, 3 (2014). pp. 244-248.
- “Visualizing the Dynamics of Monumentality”, in: James Osborne (ed.), Approaching Monumentality in Archaeology. Proceedings of the IEMA Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar Conference on Theories and Methods in Archaeology, Buffalo NY: IEMA, 2014. pp. 409-430.
- “The Relevance of Ethnoarchaeology: An Egyptian Perspective”, in: Contesting Ethnoarchaeologies. Edited by Arkadiusz Marciniak and Nurcan Yalman. One World Archaeology Vol. 7, (2013) pp. 191-209, Springer.
- “Organizing the world: classification, typology, and taxonomy in the past, present, and future.” In: Decorum and experience. Essays in ancient culture for John Baines. Edited by Elizabeth Frood and Angela McDonald. With the editorial assistance of R. Gareth Roberts. Griffith Institute, Oxford 2013, pp. 86-92.
- René Cappers, Emily Cole, Daniel Jones, Simon Holdaway, Willeke Wendrich, 2013, “The Fayyûm Desert as an Agricultural Landscape”, in Carolin Artl and Martin Stadler, (eds.) Das Fayyûm in Hellenismus und Kaiserzeit. Fallstudien zu multikulturellem Leben in der Antike pp. 37-50, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2013.
- Antiquarianism in Egypt: The Importance of Re”. In: Alain Schnapp (ed.) with Lothar von Falkenhausen, Peter N. Miller, and Tim Murray, World Antiquarianism, Comparative Perspectives, pp. 140-158. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2013.
- Noriyuki Shirai, Willeke Wendrich, and René Cappers, “An archaeological survey in the northeastern part of the Fayum”. in: Proceedings of the In: Nikola Lazaridis and P. Kousoulis (eds.), Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Egyptologists, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, 22-29 May 2008. pp. Leuven: Peeters, 2013.
- Willeke Wendrich, Jacco Dieleman and Elizabeth Waraksa, “Ideas Concerning a New Egyptological Knowledge Base; The UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology (UEE)”, In: Nikola Lazaridis and P. Kousoulis (eds.), Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Egyptologists, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, 22-29 May 2008, pp. Leuven: Peeters, 2012.
- “Archaeology and Apprenticeship. Body Knowledge, Identity and Communities of Practice”. In: Willeke Wendrich ed. Archaeology and Apprenticeship. Body Knowledge, Identity and Communities of Practice, pp. 1-19. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2012.
- “Recognizing Knowledge Transfer in the Archaeological Record”. In: Willeke Wendrich ed. Archaeology and Apprenticeship. Body Knowledge, Identity and Communities of Practice, pp. 255-263. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2012.
- W. Wendrich and P. Ryan, “Phytoliths and Basketry Materials at Çatalhöyük (Turkey): Timelines of growth, harvest and objects life histories”, Paleorient vo. 38 I (2012), pp. 57-65
- R. Phillipps, S. Holdaway, W. Wendrich, R. Cappers, “Mid Holocene Occupation of Egypt and Global Climatic Change”, in: Quaternary International 251 (2012), pp. 64-76. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618211002138#
- “A Second Chance? Preserving the Value of the Desert North and East of Lake Qarun”, in: Rosanna Pirelli (ed.), Natural and Cultural Landscapes in the Fayoum: The Safeguarding and Management of Archaeological Sites and Natural Environments. Cairo, UNESCO, 2011.
- “Crumbling Challenge and Presentation Puzzle: the Karanis Site Management Project” in: Bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt 199, Fall 2011.
- UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, Archaeological Data, and Web 2.0. In: Eric C. Kansa, Sarah Witcher Kansa, Ethan Watrell, Archaeology 2.0, New Approaches to Communication and Collaboration. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Digital Series 1, 2011. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/1r6137tb
- “From Practical Knowledge to Empowered Communication: Field Schools of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt.” in: Controlling the Past, Owning the Future: The Political Uses of Archaeology in the Middle East. R. Boytner, L. Schwarz-Dodd, and B. J. Parker, eds. pp. 178-195. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2010.
- S. Holdaway, W. Wendrich and R. Phillipps, “Identifying low-level food producers: detecting mobility from lithics”, Antiquity 84 (2010), 185-194.
- “Chapter 1: Egyptian Archaeology from Text to Context” (pp. 1-14), “Chapter 11, Identity and Personhood” (pp. 200-219) and “Chapter 15: Epilogue: Eternal Egypt Deconstructed” (pp. 274-278) in: Willeke Wendrich (ed.), Egyptian Archaeology, Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology, Oxford: Wiley- Blackwell, 2010.
- “Visual Archaeology” in Beyond the Horizon: Studies in Egyptian Art, Archaeology and History in Honour of Barry J. Kemp. Edited by Salima Ikram and Aidan Dodson, 2009. pp. 582-603.
- Elaine Sullivan and Willeke Wendrich, “An offering to Amun-Ra: Building a Virtual Reality Model of Karnak”, in: N. Strudwick (ed.) Information Technology and Egyptology in 2008. Gorgias Press, Piscataway, 2009.
- “Chapter 1, The Archaeology of Mobility: Definitions and Research Approaches” (with Hans Barnard), pp. 1-21 and “Chapter 23, From Object to Agent: the Ababda Nomads and the Interpretation of the Past” pp. 509-542 in: Hans Barnard and Willeke Wendrich (eds.), The Archaeology of Mobility: Nomads in the Old and in the New World. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Publications, 2008.
- “Gertrude Caton Thompson (1888-1985). Famous Footsteps to Fill”, Archéonil 17 (2007), pp. 89-106.
- “Mud Brick and Good Manners: the Karanis Site Management Project”, ARCE Bulletin 192 (2007). pp. 12-15.
- S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich (eds.), Berenike 1999 / 2000, Report on the Excavations at Berenike, including Excavations in Wadi Kalalat and Siket and the Survey of the Emerald Mine Settlements of the Mons Smaragdus Region, Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Publications, 2007.
- “Basketry”, in: Charles Le Quesne, Quseir, an Ottoman and Napoleonic Fortress on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt, ARCE Conservation Series 2, Cairo, New York: AUC Press, 2007.
- “Neolithische Korbflechterei”, in: Vor 12.000 Jahren in Anatolien. Die ältesten Monumente der Menschheit. Karlsruhe: Badisches Landesmuseum, 2007. pp. 230-235.
- W.Z. Wendrich, J.E.M.F. Bos, K.M. Pansire, VR Modeling in Research, Instruction, Presentation and Cultural Heritage Management: the Case of Karanis (Egypt), in: M. Ioannides, D. Arnold, F. Niccoucci, K. Mania (eds.), The 7th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage VAST (2006), Budapest, pp. 225-230.
- “Body knowledge. Ethnoarchaeological Learning and the Interpretation of Ancient Technology”, in: Bernard Mathieu, Dimitri Meeks, Myriam Wissa, éd. L’apport de l’Égypte à l’histoire des techniques. Cairo: Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, 2006, pp. 267-275.
- “The Çatalhöyük Basketry” In: I. Hodder (ed.) Changing Materialities at Çatalhöyük. Reports from the 1995–99 Seasons. Cambridge: Mac Donald Institute for Archaeology, 2006. pp. 419-424.
- “Entangled, connected or protected? The power of knots and knotting in ancient Egypt In: Szpakowska, K., ed. Through a Glass Darkly: Magic, Dreams, and Prophecy in Ancient Egypt. Swansea, Wales: The Classical Press of Wales, 2006. pp. 243-269.
- “Archaeology and Sustainable Tourism in Egypt: Protecting Community, Antiquities, and Environment”. In: N. Agnew and J. Bridgland eds Of the Past, for the Future: Integrating Archaeology and Conservation, pp. 184-190. Los Angeles, The Getty Conservation Institute, 2006.
- “Egyptian Religion, History of Study”, in: Encyclopedia of Religion, second edition (Editor in Chief Lindsay Jones), Macmillan, 2005. pp. 2727-2737.
- W.Z. Wendrich and R.T.J. Cappers, “Egypt’s earliest granaries: evidence from the Fayum”. In: Egyptian Archaeology 27, Autumn 2005, pp. 12-15.
- “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs”, Near Eastern Archaeology 67:4 (2004), pp. 226-228.
- “Basketry” in: B. Fagan (ed.) The 70 Greatest Inventions, London: Thames & Hudson, 2004. pp. 34-36.
- W.Z. Wendrich, R.S. Tomber, S.E. Sidebotham, R.T.J. Cappers, R.S. Bagnall, “Berenike Crossroads: the Integration of Information” Journal of the Economic & Social History of the Orient Volume 46, Number 1 (2003), pp. 46-87.
Honors & Awards
Metadata Central: Digital Scholarship and Outreach. UCHRI Humanities Center Collaboration, 2015
UC Public Scholars Initiative, Co-PI UCHRI Humanities Center Collaboration, PI: David Biale, UC Davis Humanities Institute, UCD, 2015
Public Voices: The OpEd Project, Co-PI UCHRI Humanities Center Collaboration, PI: Ignacio López-Calvo, Center for the Humanities, UCM, 2015
UCLA Faculty Research Grant, for Fayum Excavation, 2015
UCLA Faculty Research Grant, for Fayum Excavation, 2014
UCLA Faculty Research Grant, for Fayum Excavation, 2013
National Endowment for the Humanites/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Funding for the Ancient Egyptian Architecture Online Illustrated Standardized Terminology (Aegaron-IST) project, two year grant, HG-5004613, 2013
Awarded participation in Radical Innovation Summit (NSF funded), Organization of American States, Washington DC, 2013
UCLA Faculty Research Grant, for online publication, 2012
Office of Instructional Development grant for UEE, 2012
UCLA Faculty Research Grant, for Fayum Excavation, 2011
UCLA Vice Chancellor of Research interdisciplinary research seed grant, for climate change research in the Fayum, 2011
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Field Research Grant, 2011
Office of Instructional Development grant for UEE, 2011
UCLA Faculty Research Grant, for Fayum Excavations, 2010
Office of Instructional Development grant for UEE, 2010
Courses
Undergraduate
- Egyptian Archaeology: Ancient Technology (Ancient Near East C165/C266)
- Archaeology of Egypt and Sudan (Ancient Near East M105/Anthropology M119E)
Graduate
- Archaeological Research Design (Ancient Near East M201/Archaeology M201C)
- Depositional History and Stratigraphic Analysis (Ancient Near East M265/ Archaeology M265)
- Practical Field Archaeology (Ancient Near East 261/Archaeology C259)
- Egyptian Archaeology: Ancient Technology (Ancient Near East C165/C266)
Online Information
UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology: Open Version
http://escholarship.org/uc/nelc_uee
Fayum Project:
http://www.archbase.com/fayum/
Karnak Temple Virtual Reality Model
http://dlib.etc.ucla.edu/projects/Karnak/
Ancient Egyptian Architecture Online
http://dai.aegaron.ucla.edu/