Meet Our Team

Rebecca Bradshaw

Assistant Professor at United Arab Emirates University. Rebecca has been leading community engagement projects in Sudan since 2011. Academia

Jack Cheng

Writer, educator, archaeologist, and art historian. Jack has worked in Sudan since 2013.

Caitlin Clerkin

Archaeologist and the Frederick Randolph Grace Curatorial Fellow in Ancient Art at Harvard Art Museums.

Suzanne Davis

Head of Conservation at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and Director of Conservation for the project. Academia

Sami Elamin

Archaeologist, Director of Archives, and Senior Inspector in Sudan’s antiquities department, the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums (NCAM).

Mustafa Elsharif

Deputy Director of the Conservation Department at the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums (NCAM).

Geoff Emberling

(Project Co-Director) Associate Research Scientist at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and Lecturer in the Department of Middle East Studies at the University of Michigan. Academia

José Ignacío Forcadell Utrilla

Architect who has been working on archaeological projects in Egypt and Sudan for more than a decade.

Tohamy Abulgasim Khalifa

Masters student at the University of Khartoum. Tohamy has been working as a community engagement specialist since 2015.

El-Hassan Ahmed Mohamed

(Project Co-Director) Senior inspector in Sudan’s antiquities department, the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums (NCAM).

Nadejda Reshetnikova

Architect who has worked on a number of archaeological projects in Sudan, Egypt, Russia, and Ukraine over the past 20 years.

Kate Rose

Archaeologist specializing in landscape archaeology and ancient urbanism in the Near East and North Africa.

Tim Skuldbøl

(Project Fieldwork Director)

Affiliate Associate Professor at University of Copenhagen. He has worked in Sudan since 2013 and has also directed archaeological research in Iran, Iraq, Jordan and Syria

Gregory Tucker

Archaeologist and archaeological geophysics & geospatial data specialist, Greg has worked in Egypt and Sudan since 2015. Academia

Taylor Bryanne Woodcock

Course Instructor and doctoral candidate in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto.

Kelly Wong

Architectural consultant for the conservation and management of cultural heritage sites in the US and abroad. Kelly has worked in the field of heritage conservation for more than 20 years.

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