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.