Katherine Davis

Katherine Davis is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, specializing in Middle East Studies with a focus on Ancient Egypt. Her research spans scribal culture, Egyptian language evolution from New Kingdom to Greco-Roman periods, and intellectual history.

• PhD from Johns Hopkins University (2016)
• Current projects: Writing Knowledge: Egyptian Grammar and Scholarship in the Late Period

Research Interests:

• Late Egyptian language and scripts (Demotic, Hieratic)
• Scribal education and knowledge transmission
• History of papyrology collections
• Modern reception of Egyptian/Mesopotamian cultures

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