Academic Bio
Ariel Singer is a PhD candidate in Egyptology. She is particularly interested in medicine in ancient Egypt, and her dissertation is focused on the evidence for diachronic change in medical texts from the Middle Kingdom through the Coptic Period. Ariel completed a master’s degree at the American University in Cairo (AUC) in 2013, during which time she worked as a junior archaeozoologist for the Catacombs of Anubis Excavation and as a database processor for the Digital Catalogue of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Since beginning at the University of Chicago, Ariel has worked as a junior archaeologist and epigrapher for the Edfu Project, as a research assistant for the Chicago Demotic Dictionary (CDD) and for the Transmission of Magical Knowledge in Antiquity Project at the Neubauer Collegium, and she begins training as a junior epigrapher at the Chicago House Epigraphic Survey in the fall of 2017.