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Solange Ashby
Solange Ashby
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Africanist, archaeologist
Academic background
Education	University of Chicago ; Bard College
Thesis	Calling Out to Isis: The Enduring Nubian Presence at Philae (2016)
Academic work
Institutions	UCLA; Barnard College; American University

Solange Ashby is an Africanist and archaeologist whose expertise focuses on language, religion and the role of women in ancient Egypt and Nubia.^[1]^[2] She is an assistant professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles.^[2]^[3]

Career edit

Ashby studied for a BA in Intercultural Studies at Bard College at Simon's Rock.^[4] She graduated with a PhD in Egyptology from the University of Chicago.^[4]^[5] Her doctoral research took place at the temple of Philae in Egypt, as well as excavating at the Kushite cemetery of El-Kurru in Sudan.^[6] Her research examined the inscriptions, including graffiti, made by Kushite visitors, who traveled to the Egyptian temples in Lower Nubia.^[6]^[7]

In January 2021 she took up a position in the Department of Classics and Ancient Studies at Barnard College, New York, as an adjunct professor.^[8] In 2023 she went on to become an assistant professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles.^[2]^[3] She has held fellowships at the Catholic University's Institute of Christian Oriental Research and the American Research Centre in Egypt and has taught at the American University in Washington.^[9]

She is also a co-founder of the William Leo Hansberry Society, which seeks to educate people of African descent about African antiquity.^[2]

Media edit

In 2018, Ashby featured in a documentary directed by Taaqiy Grant, which looked at many aspects of Ancient Egyptian civilization, including its barter-based economic system.^[10] In 2020, she featured in the film series Hapi, which focused on the role of economics in civilization.^[11]

Publications edit

Calling Out To Isis: the Enduring Nubian Presence at Philae (2020)^[12]
"Milk Libations for Osiris: Nubian Piety at Philae" in Near Eastern Archaeology (2019)^[13]
"Dancing for Hathor: Nubian Women in Egyptian Cultic Life" in Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies (2018)^[14]
"Meroitic Worship of Isis at Philae" (2011)^[15]

References edit

^ "Solange Ashby, Academia.edu".
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Solange Ashby, Near Eastern Languages & Cultures – UCLA".
^ ^a ^b "Solange Ashby, Global Antiquity at UCLA".
^ ^a ^b "Adjunct Professorial Lecturer". American University. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
^ Westerfeld, Jennifer Taylor (2019). Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-9640-2. OCLC 1134074305.
^ ^a ^b "Solange Ashby | Smithsonian Journeys Expert". www.smithsonianjourneys.org. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
^ Graffiti as devotion along the Nile and beyond. Emberlin, Geoff, Davis, Suzanne. Ann Arbor. 2019. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-9906623-9-6. OCLC 1112375246.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
^ "Gorgias Press". www.gorgiaspress.com. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
^ "Scholar". Women Also Know History. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
^ "بالصور.. شركة أمريكية تُصور فيلمًا وثائقيًا عن الإمبراطورية الفرعونية في أسوان". مصراوي.كوم. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
^ "CAST". Hapi Films. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
^ Ashby, Solange (2020). Calling out to ISIS : the enduring Nubian presence at Philae. Piscataway, NJ, USA. ISBN 978-1-4632-3968-8. OCLC 1157824314.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Ashby, Solange (2019-12-01). "Milk Libations for Osiris: Nubian Piety at Philae". Near Eastern Archaeology. 82 (4): 200–209. doi:10.1086/705360. ISSN 1094-2076. S2CID 212810285.
^ Ashby, Solange (2018-12-29). "Dancing for Hathor: Nubian Women in Egyptian Cultic Life". Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies. 5 (1). doi:10.5070/D65110046.
^ Egypt in its African context : proceedings of the conference held at the Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, 2-4 October 2009. Exell, Karen. Oxford: Archaeopress. 2011. ISBN 978-1-4073-0760-2. OCLC 707825500.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)