Dr. Lissette Jiménez’s Projects

2017-18

  • National Lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)
  • Conference paper entitled, “Teaching Through Objects: Using Museum Collections in Egyptian Art and Museum Studies Courses” in a session on “Creative Pedagogies for Teaching the Ancient Near East and Egypt” at the 2018 American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) Annual Meeting, Denver
  • AIA National Lecture entitled, “The Sixth Sense: Multisensory Encounters with the Dead in Roman Egypt” at San Diego State University for the AIA San Diego Society
  • AIA Baldwin Lecture entitled, “‘Harm is what befell me, when I was but a child!’: Commemorating Children in Greco-Roman Egypt” at Johns Hopkins University for the AIA Baltimore Society
  • Book chapter to be published late in 2018, “From Birth to Rebirth: Perceptions of Childhood in Greco-Roman Egypt,” in Children in Antiquity: Perspectives and Experiences of Childhood in the Ancient Mediterranean, L. Beaumont, M. Dillon, and N. Harrington (eds.). Routledge, London
  • Interim Director and Associate Curator of the Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology at the Pacific School of Religion
  • Associate Curator for “Journeys of Faith: Portraits of LGBTQ Mormons,” Exhibited March 2-May 28, 2018, Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology

2016-17

  • Associate Curator for “Crossing Borders 1935,” Exhibited October 2016-February 2018, Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology
  • Trench Supervisor and Field School Instructor for the UC Berkeley Aidonia Archaeological Field School in Greece
  • Archaeologist for the UC Berkeley Abydos Temple Paper Archive Project
  • Program Coordinator for the Archaeological Institute of America San Francisco Society
  • Conference paper entitled, “Osiris Funerary Shrouds from Roman Egypt and the Construction of Gendered Identities,” at the 2016 American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) Annual Meeting, Atlanta
  • Conference paper entitled, “The Sixth Sense: Multisensory Encounters with the Dead in Roman Egypt” in a session on “Senses and Sensibility in the Near East” at the 2016 American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) Annual Meeting, San Antonio

2015-16 and earlier

  • Visiting Lecturer of Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley
  • Associate Curator for “A Grave Gathering: Iron Age Israelite Mortuary Practices,” Exhibited October 2015-May 2016, Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology
  • Conference paper entitled, “Osiris Mummy Shrouds and the Expression of Gender and Identity in Roman Egypt” at the 2015 Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) Annual Meeting, New Orleans
  • Panel Chair of “The Practices of Death: The Archaeology of Mortuary Ritual in Ancient Egypt and Sudan” at the 2015 Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Annual Meeting, San Francisco
  • Assistant Registrar and Trench Supervisor for the UC Berkeley El-Hibeh Excavation Project in Egypt, 2009-2012
  • Assistant Registrar for the New York University Excavations at Amheida in Egypt, 2011
  • Trench and Museum Supervisor and Field School Instructor for the UC Berkeley Nemea Archaeological Field School in Greece 2009-2011
  • Researcher for “Conservator’s Art: Conserving Egypt’s Past,” Exhibited April 2010-April 2011, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology