Dr Zsuzsanna Vegh

Tutor in Ancient Egyptian Language

Biography

Background

After earning my master's degree in Egyptology at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, I moved to Germany to pursue my PhD at the University of Heidelberg. I subsequently transferred to the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich after becoming a Doctoral Fellow at the Graduate School Distant Worlds. As part of my doctoral research on the cult of Osiris in Abydos during the Old and Middle Kingdom, I spent half a year abroad at the University of Oxford. My PhD thesis was awarded the one-year Travel Grant (Reisestipendium) of the German Archaeological Institute, which is granted to applicants with an outstanding degree in archaeology or a related discipline.

I subsequently moved to the UK, where I worked as a project curator of the Circulating Artefacts project at the British Museum, taught courses at the University of Glasgow, and in 2019–20 was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh, with a research project on the illicit trade of Egyptian antiquities. In the same academic year, I began teaching at the University, where over the years I have developed and proposed a number of new courses related to the ancient Egyptian language and culture.

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