
Meet our team
Current Team Members
(ordered alphabetically)

Tohamy Abulgasim | Co-Director of Community Engagement | LinkedIn
Research Assistant to the MAEASaM project at the University of Cambridge. Tohamy has been working as a community engagement specialist since 2015.

Rebecca Bradshaw | Communications Director | Co-Director of Community Engagement | LinkedIn
Affiliate Scholar at the universities of Cambridge and Michigan. Rebecca has been leading heritage and community engagement projects in Sudan, Egypt and Iraq since 2011.

Henrik Brahe | Website
Photographer and archaeologist. Henrik has participated in international excavations and expeditions in Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Turkey, Sudan and Kuwait.

Saskia Buechner-Matthews | Director of Find's Office
Archaeologist and material culture specialist and teacher. Saskia works in several African countries, Europe and the Middle East.

Elmontaser Dafalla | Co-Director of Conservation
Senior Conservator, Sudan’s National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums (NCAM), Head of Conservation at Sudan’s Ethnographic Museum.

Suzanne Davis | Co-Director of Conservation | Academia
Head of Conservation at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and President of the American Institute for Conservation.

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

Rehab Ismail Elfaki
Member of the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums’ Emergency Response Committee, Cairo. Rehab has worked as an NCAM Antiquities Inspector and as a team member with various missions in Sudan.

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

Bailey Franzoi
Zooarchaeologist and PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan. Bailey has participated in excavations in Sardinia, Mallorca, and Turkey.

Anna M. H. den Hollander | Academia
Anna is a PhD candidate at UCL’s Institute of Archaeology, focusing on South India. She has also worked in Sudan (Jebel Barkal & Jebel Moya).

Abdul Raouf Mohamed Jobara
Tourism and Antiquities Inspector. Raouf has worked at many different archaeological sites around Sudan including Jebel Barkal, Shendi, Kawa and El-Kurru.

Osman Mohamed Khalfallah
Inspector for Tourism and Antiquities (NCAM). Osman has worked as an assistant archaeologist with different missions around Sudan including at Jebel Barkal.

Jan Peeters | Academia
Fluvial geomorphologist. Jan has investigated the River Nile and its relation with the ancient people of Sudan and Egypt for over a decade.

Nadezhda Reshetnikova | Academia
Architect, surveyor and 3D-modeller. Nadezhda has worked on a number of archaeological projects in Sudan, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Ukraine over the past 25 years.

Kate Rose | LinkedIn
Director of Programs at the Institute for Field Research, and a Fellow at the Center for Ancient Middle Eastern Landscapes, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, University of Chicago.

Tim Skuldbøl | Director of Fieldwork | Academia
Head of the House on the Hill – a Danish non-profit archaeological research and consultancy unit. Tim has directed archaeological research in Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Sudan and Syria for more than 25 years.

José Ignacío Forcadell Utrilla
Architect. José has been working on archaeological projects in Egypt and Sudan for more than a decade.

Tim Winkels | ResearchGate
Fluvial geomorphologist. Tim studies river dynamics and landscape use along major rivers like the Nile and Rhine in contemporary and historical contexts.
Former Team Members
El-Hassan Ahmed Mohamed: Former Project Co-Director. Senior inspector in Sudan’s antiquities department, the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums (NCAM).
Jack Cheng: Writer, educator, archaeologist and art historian. Jack has worked in Sudan since 2013.
Caitlin Clerkin: Archaeologist. Caitlin is the Frederick Randolph Grace Curatorial Fellow in Ancient Art at Harvard Art Museums.
Mustafa Elsharif: Deputy Director of the Conservation Department at the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums (NCAM).
Gregory Tucker: Archaeologist and archaeological geophysics and geospatial data specialist. Greg has worked in Egypt and Sudan since 2015.
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.