Orly Goldwasser - Curriculum Vitae
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• Professor emerita of Egyptology
  
• Principal investigator: The ArchaeoMind Lab https://archaeomind.huji.ac.il
  Institute of Archaeology, Civilizations of the Ancient Near East
  Hebrew University, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel
  
• Honorary Professor, University of Goettingen
  
• Co-editor of the journal HIEROGLYPHS together with Stéphane Polis and Andreas Stauder

Main Research Fields

Invention of the Alphabet, Hieroglyphs, (Comparative) Classifier studies, Cognitive linguistics and script systems, comparative semiotics - ancient Egyptian and ancient Chinese.

Education & Employment History

1987 PhD, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Egyptology, Supervisor: Sarah Groll. 2014-2023 Professor of Egyptology, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, IL. 2012- 2013 Ecole normale supérieure (ENS), Collegium de Lyon., FR. 2007 Professor of Egyptology in Collège de France, Paris, FR. 2004-2005 Visiting Professor, Harvard University, Ancient Near East, US. 2003 - present Honorary Professor (Egyptology), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, DE. 2002-2013 Associate Professor of Egyptology, Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University, IL. 1995–2002 Senior Lecturer, Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University, IL. 1988-1995 Lecturer, Department of Egyptology, Hebrew University, IL. 1986-88 Instructor, Department of Egyptology, Hebrew University, IL. 1984-1985 Visiting Scholar, Duke University, USA

Projects

1. 1997-1999, Volkswagen: “Classifiers and Classification in Ancient Egypt”, (with F. Junge, F. Kammerzell); 2. 2000–2003, Thyssen: "Typology and Usage of Egyptian Writing” (with F. Junge, F. Kammerzell); 3. 2000-2003, Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: “Kulturkontakt und Innovation” (with M. Bietak); 4. 2008-2011, German-Israeli Foundation: “Ancient Egyptian Classifiers in a Diachronic Perspective” (with F. Kammerzell) 5. 2017-2021, ISF: (Israeli Science Foundation): “Classifying the Other: The Classification of Semitic Loanwords in the Egyptian Script.”; 6. 2022-2025, ISF: "Exploring the Minds of Ancient Egypt and Ancient China" (with Z. Handel).

Digital Humanities: iClassifier DIGITAL PLATFORM FOR CLASSIFIER RESEARCH 2019– Conceptualization and classifier theory – Orly Goldwasser, Computational realization – Haleli Harel, Programming – Dmitry Nikolaev, Financing – Orly Goldwasser. Active Portals: Ancient Egyptian, Ancient Chinese, Sumerian, and Anatolian Hieroglyphs.

Selected Publications

Goldwasser, Orly & Zev Handel (eds). 2024. Classifiers in Ancient Scripts. A Special volume of the Journal of Chinese Writing Systems.

Goldwasser, Orly. 2002. Lovers, Prophets and Giraffes - Wor[l]]d Classification in Ancient Egypt. Göttinger Orientforschungen. Wiesbaden.

Goldwasser, Orly. 1995. From Icon to Metaphor: Studies in the Semiotics of the Hieroglyphic Script. Freiburg Schweiz.