Willeke Wendrich, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Egyptian Archaeology

Office: 397 Humanities
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1511
310.206.1496 - phone
310.206.6456 - fax
wendrich@humnet.ucla.edu

EDUCATION
Ph.D. research at the Centre of Non-Western Studies at Leiden University (the Netherlands) (1989 - 1993). Subject: the social context of Ancient Egyptian basketry. PhD exam on 25 November 1999.

M.A. study in History of Religions at the University of Amsterdam (1981 - 1988).
Doctoral exam (MA) on 26 August 1988, subjects: ancient Egyptian religion, archaeology, Egyptian language, philosophy of science. Judicium: cum laude.
 

COURSES
Undergraduate Courses:
M 104 A: Ancient Egyptian Civilization (Fall 2000, 2001, Winter 2003, 2004)
M 104 B: Ancient Egyptian Civilization (Spring 2001-2005)
ANE 165: Seminar Archaeology of the Amarna Period (Winter 2003)
ANE 165: Seminar Archaeology of Ptolemaic Egypt (Winter 2004)

UCLA Graduate Seminars:
ANE 261: Practical Field Archaeology (Winter 2001: Berenike, Fall 2002-2005: Fayum)
ANE 263: The Archaeology of Ritual: ancient Egyptian sun cults (Spring 2005)
ANE 220: Critical assessment of histories of ancient Egypt (Spring 2004)
ANE 263: Visual Archaeology: interpretation and visualization of archaeology (Spring 2003)
ANE 220: Aspects of multi-disciplinarity at Berenike (Fall 2002)
ANE 263: Ancient Egyptian architecture and use of space (Spring 2002)
ANE 263: Archaeology and social theory: Meskell and McDowell. (Spring 2001)
ANE 220: Digging Deeper: tools for interpretation in Egyptian Archaeology (Fall 2000)
 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2004 - present Associate Professor in Egyptian Archaeology at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Culturs of the University of California, Los Angeles. Member of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology.

2001 - present Co-director of the UCLA-RUG Fayum project.

2000 - present Assistant Professor in Egyptian Archaeology at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures of the University of California, Los Angeles. Member of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology.

2000 - 2003 Post-doctoral fellowship Department of Archaeology at Leiden University, the Netherlands.

1998 - 1999 Director of the Baynun Mapping Project (Yemen) 1999 Team leader of an expert research project on the feasibility of the development of eco-tourism in the Fayoum (Egypt).

1996 - 2002 Project leader of the Eastern Desert Antiquities Protection Project (EDAPP), a project financed by the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Cairo for the preservation of the cultural heritage in the Eastern Desert of Egypt.

1995 - 1999 Assistant professor of archaeology at Leiden University, working at the Netherlands Institute for Archaeology and Arabic Studies in Cairo (Egypt).

1994 - 2002 Co-director of the excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red-Sea coast).

1993 - 1998 Research fellow of the Department of Egyptology, Leiden University (the Netherlands).

1986 Teaching coordinator at the Theological Institute of the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands) free-lance Teacher of Egyptology for the Leiden Institute for Cultural Studies.
 

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE
2002-present Fayum expedition

2000 Catal Hoyuk excavation (Turkey)

1999 Expedition to Elephantine (German Archaeological Institute and Swiss Institute for Architecture and Archaeology).

1998 Director of the Baynun Mapping Project (Yemen)

1994-2001 Co-direction of the excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea coast), with prof.dr. S.E. Sidebotham.

1990-1993 Expedition to Abu Sha'ar (excavations of the University of Delaware, USA, directed by prof.dr.S.E. Sidebotham).

1990, 1992, 2005 Expedition to Qasr Ibrim, (excavations of the Egypt Exploration Society, directed by dr.M.C. Horton (1990, 1992) and Dr. P. Rose (from 2000).

1987-1992 Expedition to Tell el-'Amarna (excavations of the Egypt Exploration Society, directed by B.J. Kemp).
 

MUSEOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE
2002 Planning of an exhibition on the Ababda nomads in the 'World Museum' in Rotterdam.

1999 Design and planning of an exhibition on the material culture of the Ababda nomads in the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo.

1997 Design and planning of a number of exhibitions on trade routes, desert population and Red Sea harbours in the visitors centre in the fort of Quseir (Red Sea, Egypt)

1997 Design and planning of an exhibition on the culture of the Egyptian Ababda Bedouin in Berenike.

1993 Design and planning of the presentation of the collection of the Foundation "Wilg & Mand"
 

CONFERENCES ORGANISED
"Ancient Apprenticeship" a seminar at the meetings of the Society of American Archaeologists in Salt Lake City in March 2005. http://www.archbase.org/S_AA/index.htm

With H. Barnard: "The Archaeology of Mobility; Nomads in the Old and New world." Fourth Cotsen Institute Advanced Seminar (June 2004). www.archbase.org/nomads

"Sex and the City in Ancient Egypt" (March 2004), public seminar co-organized with the Egypt Exploration Organization SC.

"Wep Waut in Westwood, Ancient Egypt at UCLA", Yearly conference day on different themes by UCLA graduate and undergraduate students (2001 ­ present).

"Berenike Dag" Yearly conference on the Berenike excavations, organised by the Berenike Foundation on the premises of Leiden University.

"Moving Matters, Seminar on ethno-archaeology in the Middle East" in cooperation with Dr. G. van der Kooij, organised at the Netherlands Institute for Archaeology and Arabic Studies in Cairo, December 1998.

"Life on the Fringe, Living in the Southern Egyptian Deserts in the Roman and Early Byzanthine Periods" in cooperation with O.E. Kaper, organised at the Netherlands Institute for Archaeology and Arabic Studies in Cairo, December 1996.
 

PUBLICATIONS
In Press "Chapter 13: The Çatal Höyük Basketry" In: I. Hodder (ed.) Changing Materiality, Cambridge: Mac Donalds Institute for Archaeology

In Press S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich (eds.), Berenike 1999 / 2000, Report on the Excavations at Berenike, including Excavations in Wadi Kalalat and Siket and the Survey of the Emerald Mine Settlements of the Mons Smaragdus Region, Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Publications.

In Press "Egyptian Religion, History of Study", in: Encyclopedia of Religion, second edition (Editor in Chief Lindsay Jones), Macmillan.

In Press "Chapter 9, Archaeology and Sustainable Tourism in Egypt: Protecting Community, Antiquities, and Environment" in: N. Agnew and J. Bridgland (eds.) Of the Past, for the Future; Integrating Archaeology and Conservation, Los Angeles: Getty Institute.

2004 "Basketry" in: B. Fagan (ed.) The 70 Greatest Inventions, London: Thames & Hudson, pp. 34-36.

2002 W.Z. Wendrich and G. van der Kooij eds: Moving Matters, proceedings of the seminar on ethno-archaeology in the Near East, Cairo-Leiden: NVIC-CNWS

2000 “Basketry” in: P.T. Nicholson, I. Shaw eds: Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology, pp. 254

2000 S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, Berenike 1998, Report on the 1998 excavations at Berenike and the survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, including excavations in Wadi Kalalat, CNWS Special Series no. 5, Leiden: Research School CNWS, School for Asian, African and Amerindian Studies.

1999 S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, Berenike 1997, Report of the 1997 Excavations at Berenike and the Survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, including excavations at Shenshef, Leiden: Research School CNWS.

1999 W.Z. Wendrich, H. Barnard and R.M. Bridgman. Report of the Baynun Mapping Project, Yemen 1998, Cairo-Leiden: NVIC-CNWS.

1999 The World According to Basketry; an ethnoarchaeological interpretation of basketry production in Egypt, CNWS publication series no. 83), with a 60 minutes video tape of present-day Egyptian basket makers.

1998 S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, Berenike '96, Report on the Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert, Leiden: Research School CNWS.

1998 “Introduction” and “Fringes are Anchored in Warp and Weft” in Life on the Fringe, Cairo-Leiden: NVIC-CNWS.

1997 “Manden en touw” in: De Oudheid Verpakt, catalogue of an Exhibition in the Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam, pp. 42-51, Voorhout: Topa

1996 "Ancient Egyptian Rope and Knots", in: J.C. Turner, P. van de Griend eds. History and Science of Knots, pp. 43-70, London: World Scientific.

1996 S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds. Berenike '95, Preliminary Report of the Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert, Leiden: Research School CNWS.

1995 "Basketry and cordage", entry in: I. Shaw, P.T. Nicholson, British Museum Dictionary of Ancient Egypt, p. 49, London: Trustees of the British Museum.

1995 "Van vindplaats tot rustplaats" in: Het behoud van etnografische collecties, Themadag 23, pp. 69-77, Amsterdam: Centraal Laboratorium voor Onderzoek van Voorwerpen van Kunst en Wetenschap.

1995 S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, Berenike '94, Preliminary Report of the Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert, Leiden: Research School CNWS.

1994 "Recording the 1990 Qasr Ibrim Basketry: a matter of edging" in: Ch. Bonnet, ed. Etudes Nubiennes, Actes du VIIe Congrès international d'études nubiennes, 3-8 septembre 1990 Volume II, pp. 205-207.

1994 G.M. Vogelsang-Eastwood, W.Z. Wendrich "Schoeisel" in: De Kleren van de Farao, pp. 139-149, Amsterdam: De Bataafsche Leeuw.

1993 "Mats, baskets and plastic bags", in: Egyptian Archaeology no. 3, pp. 39-40, London: Egypt Exploration Society;

1992 "Basketry analysis; beyond recording" in: Sesto Congresso Internazionale di Egittologia Atti, Volume I, pp. 657-659, Turin:

1991 "The cordage", in: D.A. Welsby, C.A. Daniels, Soba, Archaeological Research at a Medieval Capital on the Blue Nile, pp. 308-309 London: The Britisch Institute in Eastern Africa;

1991 "Basketry, a textile technique?", in: Archaeological Textile Newsletter no. 12, pp. 18-20.

1991 "Basketry versus Textile: on terms" in: Archaeological Textile Newsletter no. 13, pp. 9,10.

1991 Who is afraid of basketry? a guide to recording basketry and cordage for archaeologists and ethnographers, Leiden: CNWS-series no. 6;

1990 "Vlechtwerk, de zelfkant van het specialisme textiel?", OMRO no. 10, pp. 211-216, Leiden: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden;

1989 "Preliminary report on the Amarna basketry and cordage", in: B.J. Kemp, Amarna Reports V, London: Egypt Exploration Society;

Furthermore, numerous reviews, popular articles and scholarly lectures, both in English and in Dutch.