Contact

Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
University of Toronto
4, Bancroft Avenue, room 333
Toronto ON M5S 1C1
CANADA

Tel: (1-416) 946-0740
Fax: (1-416) 978-3305
E-mail: katja.goebs@utoronto.ca

Curriculum Vitae

Education

DPhil (= PhD) in Egyptology

Thesis: Symbolic functions of royal crowns in early Egyptian funerary literature

University of Oxford (St. John's College), 1998

MA in Egyptology

Thesis: Zur Funktion des Nemes-Kopftuches innerhalb des ägyptischen Königsornats

Examinations: Egyptology, Sinology (State and Society), Social and Economic History
(Additional courses in Pre- & Early History Europe & Africa, Sociology & Polit. Science)
Hamburg University/FRG, 1992



Teaching appointments

July 2005 - present

Associate Professor Dept. of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
University of Toronto

January 2009

Senior Lecturer in Egyptology Institute for Archaeology and Ancient History
University of Uppsala/Sweden - Declined for familial reasons

Sept. 2003 - July 2005

Lecturer and Research Fellow in Egyptology Dept. of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies
Trinity College, Dublin

Sept. - Dec. 2002

Visiting Lecturer School of Archaeology, Classics and Oriental Studies
2002:
University of Liverpool (Old and early Middle Egyptian language (ALGY 372; replacing Mark Collier)

Oct. 2000 - June 2001

Visiting Professor
University of California at Los Angeles (replacing Antonio Loprieno)

Jan. 1995 - June 2003

Part-time Lecturer Middle and Old Egyptian Language
Oxford University

Research Projects and Appointments

Sept. 2011 - Aug. 2012

Icon and Metaphor: Egyptian icoonography and its textual correspondences, with a focus on the expression of divine light
funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung and held at Freie Universität Berlin ( Host: Jochem Kahl)

April 2008 - present

Divine Light: Luminous Aspects of Divinity in Egypt and Mesopotamia
Collection and evaluation of terminology and iconography of divine light in these cultures
funded by SSHRC Standard Research Grant.

Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2003

Digital index of the Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts
1. year pilot project funded by Griffith Institute, Oxford

Oct. 1998 - Sept. 2002

Research Fellow (JRF)
Merton College, Oxford

March 1998 - Aug. 1998

Government of Canada Scholar
McGill University, Montreal (Department of Anthropology, Host: Bruce Trigger)

Oct. 1997 - Dec. 1997

Sir Henri Frankfort Fellow
Warburg Institute, London

Oct. 1993 - July 1994

Research assistant
Griffith Institute, Oxford (for John Baines; Database of A. M. Calverley's photographs)

Aug. 1990 - Sept. 1992

Research assistant
Archaeological Institute of Hamburg University (Hartwig Altenmüller, Dieter Kurth)

Feb. 1987 - Sept. 1989

Research assistant
Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Institute for International Politics
Deutsches Orientinstitut Hamburg (Udo Steinbach, Christian Hacke)

Conference Organization

Planned for Spring 2014

The History and Impact of German Archaeology in the Near and Middle East
University of Toronto; Application for funds under review

Editorial Work

Jan. 2011 - present

Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquity (JSSEA) Editor-in-Chief

Nov. 2009 - Jan. 2011

Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquity (JSSEA) Co-editor

May 2007 - present

Elected Korrespondierendes Mitglied ("Corresponding member") of the German Archaeological Institute
Cairo

Jan. 2003 - Dec. 2006

Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (JEA) Co-editor

Administrative Posts

Sept. 2009 - present

Member of the Graduate Affairs Committee
Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
University of Toronto

Sept. 2008 - present

Member of the Research Committee
Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
University of Toronto

Sept. 2006 - Aug. 2008

Member of the Undergraduate Affairs Committee
Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
University of Toronto

Oct 1999 - Sept. 2002

Member of the Development Committee
Merton College, Oxford

Scholarships and Awards

Sept. 2011 - Aug. 2012

Alexander von Humboldt Fellow

June 2008

Dean's Excellence Award
University of Toronto

July 1996 - Sept. 1997

Dissertation Award
FAZIT-Stiftung (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

Oct. 1993 - Oct. 1996

British Academy Postgraduate Award (3-year award)

Oct. 1994 - June 1996

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Postgraduate-Award

Oct. 1989 - Sept. 1993

Scholar of the Studienstiftung d. Deutschen Volkes (National Scholarship Foundation)

Oct. 1989 - July 1990

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) grant for study at Oxford