MKTP team 2023
Season VII
May 2023
Head
Antonio J. Morales
Archaeology
Sergio Alarcón Robledo
José M. Alba Gómez
Laura Hernando Folch
Egyptology
Jaime Colás Rodríguez
Carmen Díaz Castro
Raúl Sánchez Casado
Conservation
Ella Jewell Andrews
Lily Alice Bell Griffin
Reed Ivey Hudson
Miguel Ángel López Marcos
Olivia M. O'Dwyer
Jaume Vilaró Fabregat
Landscape Archaeology
Jesús Martínez Fernández
José Pérez Negre
Kate E. Rose
Ancient textiles
Elsa Yvanez
Photography, video and 3D
Ana Jiménez Almazán
Patricia Mora Riudavets
Antonio Morales
HeadAntonio Morales is Associate Professor of Egyptology at the Seminar of Ancient History in the University of Alcalá (UAH, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid) and the Director of the Middle Kingdom Theban Project. Previously, he lectured at Freie Universität Berlin. He is currently organizing an Egyptological program at the University of Alcalá, mainly focused on pharaonic history, religion, language, and culture. The new program already includes courses on Egyptian language (Old and Middle Egyptian, hieratic, Late Egyptian), Egyptian literature, and ancient Egyptian magic and religion.
Sergio Alarcón
ArchaeologySergio Alarcón Robledo is doing his PhD in Egyptology at Harvard University. He studied Architecture in the Technical University of Madrid (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), an MPhil in Egyptology at the University of Cambridge, and an MA in Archaeology at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA. His main area of interest is in ancient Egyptian architecture, with a particular focus on Bronze Age temple and funerary structures in Egypt.
José M. Alba Gómez
ArchaeologyJosé M. Alba is Doctor by the University of Jaén. He holds a BA degree in “Humanidades” from the University of Jaén (Spain) since 2004. Currently, is a researcher at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. His work is based on topics concerning pottery production, trade and consumption, and the role of ceramics in order to analyse and interpret cultural information. Other research areas of his interest are olive tree cultivation and oil production in ancient Egypt.
Laura Hernando Folch
ArchaeologyLaura Hernando (BA in Archaeology by the Autonomous University of Barcelona, 2019; MSc in Paleobiology, UAB-UB-ICP, 2020) is an archaeologist and paleobiologist particularly interested on ancient Egyptian urbanism and architecture. She is currently working as a curatorial technician at the collections department in the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES, Tarragona, Spain).
Jaime Colás Rodríguez
EgiptologyJaime Colás Rodríguez has a BA degree in History and completed the postgraduate course in Egyptology at the University of Alcalá in 2021. His research at postgraduate level focused on territorial aspects of the Amduat and the Book of Gates in terms of astronomical knowledge and how ancient Egyptians understood the cosmos.
Jaime has been a member of the archaeological project “Primitiva Complutum” in Madrid and has extended his archaeological and Egyptological training through several courses on archaeology, GIS and Egyptology at the University of Alcalá.
Carmen Díaz
Egyptology
Raúl Sánchez
Egyptology
Ella Jewell Andrews
ConservationElla Andrews is an MSc student studying conservation for archaeology and museums at University College London (UCL). She received an MA in principles of conservation from UCL, in which her dissertation research focused on mud brick structures in the Middle East. She received her BA in anthropology from University of North Carolina Charlotte and worked in the field as an archaeologist and conservator during her undergraduate degree. Her background and interests include archaeological conservation both on site and in museum laboratories, with experience focusing on inorganics.
Lily Alice Bell Greffin
ConservationLily Griffin obtained a BA in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History from the University of Oxford in 2018. She specialises in archaeological conservation, having achieved an MA in Principles of Conservation (2019) and completing an MSc in Conservation for Archaeology and Museums this year (2021), both from UCL. She is interested in the synthesis of modern-day technology, materials science, and conservation and excited to apply this in the field.
Reed Ivey Hudson
ConservationReed Hudson is an American conservator who has worked on field projects in Italy, Greece, America and the United Kingdom. She has worked with various archaeological, ethnographic, and fine art collections, at institutions including the Vatican Museums, the Wallace Collection, and the Pitt Rivers Museum. She is currently the Senior Metals Conservator for Historic Environment Scotland, and a member of the Institute of Conservation Archaeology Committee, for which she is helping to edit the new edition of the First Aid for Finds handbook on archaeological conservation.
Miguel Ángel López Marcos
ConservationMiguel Ángel López Marcos studied Prehistory and Archaeology at the University Autonoma of Madrid (1987) and the BA in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritahe in the Department of Archaeology at the same institution (1987). He is a professional archaeologist with 35 years of experience in the development and application of techniques and methodologies in the archaeological survey, excavation and documentation, as well as restoration and conservation of the archaeological and monumental heritage in Spain as well as abroad (Italy, Marocco, Egypt).
Olivia M. O'Dwyer
ConservationOlivia is an archaeological conservator with a particular interest in wall paintings. She works with the Palace of Nestor Excavations in Pylos, Greece and the Japanese Institute of Anatolian Archaeology in Kaman, Turkey. She holds a BA in Classics from the University of Cambridge, and an MA and MSc in Conservation from UCL’s Institute of Archaeology. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Athens, where she is researching Bronze Age wall paintings from the Greek mainland. From September 2023, she will be a Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens Wiener Laboratory.
Jaume Vilaró Fabregat
ConservationJaume Vilaró Fabregat is invited as a restorer for the Middle Kingdom Theban Project. He holds dual Bachelor degrees in Conservation-Restoration of Cultural Heritage and Art History, a Master’s degree in Egyptology, and he is currently a PhD candidate in Egyptology. His research, part of the Vatican Coffin Project, concerns the non-stola yellow coffins of the Twenty-First Dynasty preserved at the Museo Egizio (Turin).
Jesús Martínez Fernández
Landscape ArchaeologyJesús Martínez Fernández is a Margarita Salas postdoctoral researcher (Universitat Rovira i Virgili-Universidad de Alcalá). He obtained his PhD in Classical Archaeology at the URV-ICAC (Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica) in 2021. His principal research interests are the analysis of communication systems, archaeomorphology, remote sensing and studies on the evolution of the palaeolandscape.
José Pérez Negre
Landscape ArchaeologyJosé Pérez Negre is currently a researcher at the IEEC (Spanish Institute of Egyptology and Coptology) and the Director of the PGIS/2023-1E project, focused on the creation of a SiteGIS, which deals with the use of mudbrick as a constructive element throughout the history of ancient Egypt from a double perspective, diachronic and synchronic.
Parallel to the completion of the postgraduate course in Classical Archaeology «Rome: Topography and Urbanism of the Urbs» convened by the Spanish School of History and Archaeology in Roma (EEHAR-CSIC) and his doctoral studies (program number 695/296-D) in the Department of Archaeology, Prehistory and Ancient History of the University of Valencia, he has been professionally dedicated to the archaeological field between 1999 and 2017, carrying out the technical direction of more than a hundred heritage interventions: excavations, surveys, impact studies, museum projects and GIS modeling.
Since 2018, his research has established in the domain of Egyptology, after a fruitful formative period at the Academy of Biblical, Classical and Oriental Languages (San Vicente Ferrer Faculty of Theology-Catholic University of Valencia), obtaining a degree in Akkadian, Coptic and Egyptian Hieroglyphics, and at the UAH through its Formación Superior en Egiptología and Master’s programs in Egyptology.
Kate E. Rose
Landscape ArchaeologyKate Rose is an anthropological archaeologist specializing in landscape studies and ancient urbanism in the Near East and North Africa. She is currently a researcher with the ERC DiverseNile Project at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany. She defended her dissertation in 2022 at Harvard University. Her dissertation investigates the relationship between gender and power through spatial analyses of royal cemeteries in the Napatan region. She has served in various leadership positions on excavations in Spain, Jordan, Turkey at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, Egypt at the site of Tell el-Amarna, and Sudan at the cemeteries of El-Kurru, Nuri, Jebel Barkal, and El-Zuma. She also worked as a drone pilot and surveyor for the Erbil Plain Archaeological Project in Kurdistan, Northern Iraq. She has experience teaching across disciplines in archaeology, social anthropology, classics, women and gender studies, and human evolution.
Elsa Yvanez
Ancient textilesElsa Yvanez holds a MA in Egyptology (La Sorbonne – Paris IV), a MA in Egyptian Archaeology (UCL, London) and a PhD in archaeology from Lille 3 university, France. After focusing her first MA dissertation on Middle Kingdom administration in Egypt and Nubia, she turned her inquiries towards ancient textile material from Meroitic Sudan. Her research encompasses all aspects of textile production and uses, from fibers to tools, from weaving techniques to clothing, all the way to textile usage in urban and funerary contexts. Elsa continued to explore these issues as a Marie Skłodowska Curie fellow at the Centre for Textile Research (CTR), University of Copenhagen (TexMeroe project, EU grant n°743420), from 2018 to 2020. Since then, she is designing new projects aimed at developing textile archaeology along the Nile Valley. She is also the co-founder of the Textile Archaeology in Egypt and Sudan research network, hosted at CTR.
Ana Jiménez Almazán
Photography, video and 3DFreelance photographer specialized in documentary photography. Her experience includes social work at national and international level in producing human-interest photographic reports. Her training is based on studies related to art, but at a photographic level she was trained as a professional in a self-taught way in long stays through different countries of South America, Central America and Europe, during seven years of travel, in addition to training in the field of documentary photography in the city of Valencia. In 2018 Ana studied the III International Postgraduate Program on scientific photography at the University of Alcalá. Since 2019, she is a professional member of the Spanish Professional Association of Scientific and Forensic Image.
Patricia Mora
Photography, video and 3DPatricia Mora Riudavets holds a degree in History from the University of Barcelona and a MA in Egyptology from the University of Liverpool with a dissertation entitled “Women that clap their hands in the Old Kingdom”. Recently she has completed the “International Postgraduate in Scientific Photography” at the Universidad de Alcalá (UAH). Since 2006 she has worked (and works) as a professional archaeological photographer in several national and international archaeological missions in Egypt and Syria.
