Dr. Leah Mascia ist eine Ägyptologin und Koptologin, die ihren Forschunsfokus auf den
kulturelle und religiösen Wandel im römischen und frühbyzantinischen Ägypten legt. Seit
Jahren arbeitet sie als Epigraphikerin und Papyrologin in Oxyrhynchus (modernes el-Bahnasa,
Ägypten), einem der für die damit verbundenen Fragen ergiebigsten Orte Ägyptens.

Conferences, Workshops, Courses, and Research Activities

November 2023:
Invited speaker at the conference “Magia y Brujería en el Mundo Antiguo,” Universidad de Murcia (Spain).

October 3rd 2023:
Invited speaker for a lecture at the History Department of Universität Basel (Switzerland).

July 2023:
Teacher in Egyptology and Coptology at the Summer School: An Interdisciplinary History of Writing at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Universität Hamburg.

June 2023:
Participant in the exhibition devoted to manuscript cultures at the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg  Carl von Ossietzky (SUB), Hamburg.

April 13th and 14th 2023:
Speaker at the conference “Cross-Cultural Contact Between Egypt and the Roman Empire,” British School and Norwegian Institute in Rome.

March 30th to April 1st 2023:
Co-organiser of the conference “Inscribing Funerary Spaces” at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC), Universität Hamburg.

February 9th 2023:
Speaker at the conference “Generating Knowledge: Visualizing the Invisible in Handwritten Media” at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC), Universität Hamburg.

February 1st 2023:
Invited speaker for a lecture at the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (Cairo, Egypt).

January 5th 2023:
Speaker in the lecture series “Between Invisibility and Autonomy” at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC), Universität Hamburg.

September 13th 2022:
Speaker at the “34. Deutsche Orientalistentag” at the Freie Universität Berlin.

May 19th 2022:
Speaker at the conference “Mixed Languages, Mixed Scripts: Material from Manuscripts and Inscriptions” at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC), Universität Hamburg.

March 2022:
Lecturer at the “Sapienza” Università di Roma.

February 26th, March 5th and 12th, and July 2nd 2021:
Co-organiser of the workshop series “Scratched, Scrawled, Sprayed… and Drawn: Multigraphic Graffiti Across Times and Cultures” at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC), Universität Hamburg.

February 19th 2021:
Speaker at the “Jornadas de Papirología,” Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain).

August 27th and 28th 2020:
Speaker at the “3rd Lady Wallis Budge Symposium: Compulsion and Control in Ancient Egypt,” University of Cambridge (United Kingdom).

November 3rd to 8th 2019:
Speaker at the “Twelfth International Congress of Egyptologists - ICE XII,” (Cairo, Egypt).

January 14th to 18th 2019:
Participation in the workshop “Manuscript Culture in Ancient Egypt and China,” Renmin University (Beijing, China).

September 17th to 21st 2018:
Participation in the “Summer School in Coptic Literature and Manuscript Tradition” held by Prof. Dr. Paola Buzi and Prof. Dr. Heike Behlmer at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Culture (CSMC), Universität Hamburg.

February 24th 2017:
Speaker at the “Garden Vth: Graduate Annual Research Discussions on Egypt and Nubia,” Deutsches Archäologisches Institut–DAI (Cairo, Egypt).

December 14/15th 2017:
Speaker at the “Young Egyptologists Meeting,” Università di Pisa (Italy).

November 2017:
Restoration Internship “Primi interventi di restauro nei contesti archeologici” (First Restoration Interventions on Archaeological Sites), directed by Prof. Stefano Lanuti, Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione ed il Restauro, Rome.

May–July 2017:
Advanced Training Course in “Egittologia: dalla formazione alla ricerca” (Egyptology: From Training to Research), directed by Prof. Dr. Paola Buzi, “Sapienza” Università di Roma.

February–March 2017:
“Corso intensivo di lingua e letteratura dell’Etiopia Tardoantica” (Intensive Course on Late Antique Ethiopian Language and Literature) held by Prof. Dr. Alessandro Bausi (Universität Hamburg), Visiting Professor at “Sapienza” Università di Roma.

April–June 2016:
“Laboratorio di lettura e traduzione guidata dal tedesco di testi di ambito antichistico” (Guided reading and translation in German – A workshop in Ancient Classical History), held at the “Sapienza” Università di Roma.

2014–2023:
Research activity as a senior member of the Italian Archaeological Mission of the University of Urbino at Cyrene, Libya.

Scholarships and Grants

April 2018
Awarded the “Traianos Gagos Fund 2018” by Michigan University, Ann Arbor (USA) for the study of the Coptic Oxyrhynchite papyri kept in the Papyrological Collection of Michigan University.

2018–2021
Doctorate Scholarship at Doctorate Scholarship at the SFB950, Universität Hamburg.

2021–2022
Doctorate Scholarship at the Cluster of Excellence “Understanding Written Artefacts”.