Education

2022

Habilitation in Egyptology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Habilitation thesis “Egyptian name scarabs from the 12th to the 15th Dynasty: Geography and chronology of production”

2007 – 2011

Doctoral studies at the Faculty of History, Moscow State University; degree: kandidat istoriceskich nauk (Candidate of History; equals a PhD degree); PhD thesis “Aspects of Ancient Egyptian Administration in the Late Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period on the Evidence of Private Memorial Monuments” (in Russian).

2002 – 2007

Study of Ancient History (includes Egyptology) at the Faculty of History, Moscow State University. Degree: istorik, prepodavatel istorii (Historian, history teacher)

Academic positions

Summer semester 2025

Interim professorship at the Institute of Egyptology, Freie Universität Berlin

2021–2024

PI and research associate in the project “Altägyptische Titel in amtlichen und familiären Kontexten, 2055-1352 v. Chr.” at the Institute of Ancient Studies, Egyptology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

2017–2021

PI and research associate in the project “Umformung und Variabilität im Korpus altägyptischer Personennamen 2055–1550 v. Chr.” at the Institute of Ancient Studies, Egyptology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

2015–2017

Guest scholar at the Institute of Ancient Studies, Egyptology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Humboldt fellowship)

2012–2017

Research associate at the Department of the History and Culture of the Ancient Orient, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Research Interests:

• Stelae
• Offering tables
• Scarabs
• Personal names
• Prosopography
• Administration
• Regional differences
• Middle Kingdom
• Second Intermediate Period
• Dynasty 18

Third-party funded projects (as principal investigator)

2021 – 2024

Fritz Thyssen Foundation: “Altägyptische Titel in amtlichen und familiären Kontexten, 2055-1352 v. Chr. ”

2017 – 2021

Fritz Thyssen Foundation: “Umformung und Variabilität im Korpus altägyptischer Personennamen 2055–1550 v. Chr. ”

2015 – 2017

Humboldt Research Fellowship at the Institute of Ancient Studies, Egyptology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (project title: “Regionale Vielfalt im Alten Ägypten, 1900-1500 v. Chr.”)

2013 – 2015

Project funding for young researchers, Russian Foundation for Humanities (RGNF)

Monographs

Egyptian Name Scarabs from the 12th to the 15th Dynasty: Geography and Chronology of Production (Contributions to the Archaeology of Egypt, Nubia and the Levant 16, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2023).

From workshop to sanctuary: the production of Late Middle Kingdom memorial stelae (Middle Kingdom Studies 6, London: Golden House Publications, 2017).

Editorship

(co-edited with Simone Gerhards, Nadine Gräßler, Svenja A. Gülden, Jessica Kertmann, Andrea Kilian, Kyra van der Moeze, and Monika Zöller-Engelhardt), Schöne Denkmäler sind entstanden. Studien zu Ehren von Ursula Verhoeven (Heidelberg, 2023). (Open Access at Propylaeum Ebooks)

Papers, book reviews, catalogue entries

Visible-Induced Infrared Luminescence of Egyptian Blue and the Great Ones of Mitanni and Hatti. Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 45 (2025): 21–41.

(co-authored with Vanessa Boschloos) Beyond the Most Obviously Interesting: Aims and Methods in Documenting and Processing Scarabs. In: A. Kilian, A. Pruß, M. Zöller-Engelhardt (eds.), Excavating the Extra-Ordinary 2: Challenges & Merits of Working with Small Finds. Proceedings of the International Workshop at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 25–26 November 2022 (Heidelberg 2024), 125–132.

Glücksbringer. In O. Zorn (ed.), Ägypten ganz nah: 150 Begegnungen mit der Kultur Altägyptens (Regensburg, 2023), 140–156.

Aufwärter der Bier- und Brotkammer Sa-ii und Eje, ihre Verwandtschaft und Berufsstand. In: S. Gerhards, N. Grässler, S. A. Gülden, A. Ilin-Tomich, J. Kertmann, A. Kilian, T. Konrad, K. van der Moezel, M. Zöller-Engelhardt (eds.), Schöne Denkmäler sind entstanden: Studien zu Ehren von Ursula Verhoeven (Heidelberg 2023), 180-199.

Minor Contributions to Middle Kingdom Prosopography. In G. Miniaci and W. Grajetzki (eds.), The world of Middle Kingdom Egypt III: Contributions on archaeology, art, religion, and written sources (London, 2022), 207–216.

The Vizier Ankhu and the Dual Vizierate in the Late Middle Kingdom. Journal of Egyptian History 14 (2021), 145-169.

Royal Court on a Visit to Thebes: Palace Officials and Local Hosts in Papyrus Boulaq 18. In I. Arkhipov, G. Chambon, N. Ziegler (eds.), Pratiques administratives et comptables au Proche-Orient à l'âge du Bronze (Publications de l'Institut du Proche-Orient Ancien du Collège de France 4, Leuven 2021), 159-167.

The Governor’s Court in Late Middle Kingdom Antaeopolis. Revue d’Égyptologie 68 (2017-2018), 61-78.

Ikonografische Datierungskriterien für Privatopfertafeln der 12. Dynastie. Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 47 (2018), 57-87.

Mögliche Dialektmerkmale in den Personennamen des Mittleren Reiches. Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 145 (2018), 136-148.

Female Titles Specific to Southern Upper Egypt in the Late Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period. Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology 26 (2018), 19-36.

Centralized and Local Production, Adaptation, and Imitation Twelfth Dynasty offering tables. In: G. Miniaci, C. Moreno García, S. Quirke, A. Stauder (eds.), The Arts of Making in Ancient Egypt: Voices, images, and objects of material producers 2000-1550 BC, 81–100. Leiden, 2018.

Regional Administration in Late Middle Kingdom Egypt. In M. Tomorad and J. Popielska-Grzybowska (eds.), Egypt 2015: Perspectives of Research Proceedings of the Seventh European Conference of Egyptologists 2nd-7th June 2015, Zagreb, Croatia (Oxford 2017), 307-318.

Second Intermediate Period. In W. Grajetzki and W. Wendrich (eds.), UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology (Los Angeles 2016).

Theban administration in the Late Middle Kingdom. Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 142 (2015), 120-153.

King Seankhibra and the Middle Kingdom Appeal to the Living. In G. Miniaci and W. Grajetzki (eds.), The world of Middle Kingdom Egypt (2000-1550 BC): contributions on archaeology, art, religion, and written sources. Volume I 1 (London, 2015), 145-168.

(co-authored with Timofey Shmakov) Review: R. Landgráfová It is my good name that you should remember: Egyptian biographical texts on Middle Kingdom stelae (Prague 2011). Bibliotheca Orientalis 71 (2014), 738-743.

Review: W. Grajetzki, and D. Stefanović Dossiers of Ancient Egyptians - the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period: addition to Franke's 'Personendaten'. (GHP Egyptology 19, London, 2012). Bibliotheca Orientalis 71 (2014), 139-145.

The Theban kingdom of Dynasty 16: its rise, administration and politics. Journal of Egyptian History 7 (2014), 143-193.

(co-authored with Marina Sokolova) Twelve notes on Ipuwer. Chronique d'Égypte 88 (2013), 261-272.

Late Middle Kingdom stelae workshops at Thebes. Göttinger Miszellen 234 (2012), 69-84.

A Twelfth Dynasty stela workshop possibly from Saqqara. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 97 (2011), 117-126.

Changes in the ḥtp-dj-nsw formula in the late Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period. Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 138 (2011), 20-34.

Two notes on Middle Kingdom annals. Lingua Aegyptia 18 (2010), 119-129.

Datasets

Personen und Namen des Mittleren Reiches und des frühen Neuen Reiches. Online database https://pnm.uni-mainz.de/info database dump: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1411391

(co-authored with Tobias Konrad) Bibliography of Egyptological databases and datasets. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10691756