Tutor information
Rosalind Janssen
Rosalind Janssen’s career was spent at UCL: firstly as a curator of the Petrie Museum, and then as a Lecturer in Egyptology at the Institute of Archaeology. She currently teaches Egyptology at the OUDCE and the City Lit in London.
Courses
Become acquainted with the lives of seven non-elite men who lived at Deir el-Medina, the New Kingdom village of Pharaohs' tomb-builders. Appreciate the dynamics of father-son and teacher-pupil relationships, and what it meant to be childless.
Spend a week exploring Deir el-Medina, the New Kingdom desert village of the pharaohs’ tomb-builders, uncovering daily life, love and loss. Includes a full-day trip to London, visiting the British Museum and the Petrie Museum.
Explore the lives and careers of pioneer women in Egyptology by means of seminars and museum and archival visits. Appreciate how these stories of women as activists, artists, and archaeologists disrupt the grand narrative of the ‘Great Men’ in Egyptology.