Kate E. RoseLandscape ArchaeologyLudwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (Germany)
Kate Rose is an anthropological archaeologist specializing in archaeology of the Near East and North Africa, mortuary archaeology, landscape archaeology, and ancient urbanism. She is currently a researcher with the ERC DiverseNile Project at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany. She defended her dissertation in 2022 and is in the final stages of completing her PhD at Harvard University.
She approaches ancient cemeteries through analyzing their integration with the surrounding landscape, intra-site spatial patterns, and theoretical paradigms of identity politics and intersectionality. Her dissertation investigates the relationship between gender and power in ancient Nubia through spatial analyses of royal cemeteries.
She has served in various leadership positions on excavations around the world. In 2008, she participated in her first field school in Menorca, Spain with the Eco Museu de Cap de Cavalleria. In 2009, she served as an excavation and laboratory supervisor for the Roman city and fort excavation at the site. She graduated from Stanford University in 2013 with a BA in Archaeology with honors. While at Stanford, she specialized in Neolithic archaeology of the Near East and Anatolia. She supervised excavations at El Hemmeh, Jordan and Çatalhöyük, Turkey. She began her studies at Harvard and joined the Amarna Project in Egypt, excavating 18th dynasty non-elite cemeteries in the ancient city of Akhetaten. She started working in Sudan in 2015 at the cemeteries of El-Kurru, Jebel Barkal, and El-Zuma. She also worked as a drone pilot and surveyor for the Erbil Plain Archaeological Project in Kurdistan, Northern Iraq. In 2023 she continued fieldwork in Sudan as a surveyor and drone pilot in the Attab to Ferka region with the DiverseNile Project. She also began excavating a Napatan palace at Jebel Barkal.
She has experience teaching across disciplines in archaeology, social anthropology, classics, women and gender studies, and human evolution. From 2020-2021, she served as the Pedagogy Fellow and Departmental Writing Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard. She received five teaching awards as a teaching fellow at Harvard. During the summer of 2022 she served as a lecturer in Archaeology at Boston University.
She has published in peer-reviewed journals such as Sudan and Nubia and Neo-lithics. In December 2022 she co-authored a paper with colleagues from Harvard University in Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage entitled “Egyptian archaeology in multiple realities: Integrating XR technologies and museum outreach.” She is currently contributing to two edited volumes based on conferences from 2021: Queen: Reimagining Power from Antiquity to the Present and a session on Power in the Ancient World from the American Schools for Oriental Research Annual Meeting.
