Kathryn Howley

Beinecke Fellow

01/30/2023–06/17/2023

Kathryn Howley is the Lila Acheson Wallace Assistant Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. She is particularly interested in the material culture of intercultural interaction and identity, which she explores through her fieldwork project at the Amun temple of King Taharqo at Sanam in Sudan. At the Clark, she will work on a book manuscript that will argue that the proliferation of bodies in ancient Egyptian imagery is central to how it has functioned upon its audience, both ancient and modern, and explore the ways in which modern body politics have influenced our understanding of ancient Egyptian art.