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Kathryn Bard

Associate Professor College of Arts and Sciences Department of Archaeology Address: 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 Phone: 671-358-1162 Email: kbard@bu.edu Website: http://www.bu.edu/archaeology/faculty/bard.htm

Areas of Interest: Late prehistory of Egypt; the origins of complex societies and early states in northeast Africa: Egypt, Nubia, and northern Ethiopia/Eritrea; the Red Sea trading network in the Bronze & Iron Ages.

Co-director of the joint BU/IUO (University of Naples “l’Orientale”) project at Aksum, Ethiopia, 1993-2002 where a number of sites were excavated, including a large elite residence and cemetery on Bieta Giyorgis Hill to the northwest of Aksum, dating to the late 1st millennium BC and 1st millennium AD. Since 2003 Kathryn Bard has been co-directing excavations at the 4000 year old pharaonic port at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis, Egypt, which was used to send seafaring expeditions to the land of Punt, in the southern Red Sea region. She is now working on compiling and editing the publication of the Aksum excavations. Her publications include: K. A. Bard. "An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt" (Blackwell 2008). K. A. Bard and Rodolfo Fattovich, editors. "Harbor of the Pharaohs to the Land of Punt. Archaeological Investigations at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis Egypt, 2001-2005" (University of Naples "l'Orientale 2007). On-line reports of the Mersa/Wadi Gawasis excavations are available at: archaeogate.org Ph.D. in Egyptian Archaeology, Dept. of Near Eastern Studies, the University of Toronto, 1987; M.A., the University of Toronto, 1976; M.A., Dept. of Near Eastern Studies, the University of Michigan, 1974; M.F.A., School of Art, Yale University, 1971; B.A., Connecticut College, 1968.