Christina Riggs
Professor Christina Riggs | |
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| Born | Ohio, United States |
| Nationality | British |
| Title | Professor of the History of Visual Culture, Department of History, Durham University |
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| Discipline | History |
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Christina Riggs is a British-American historian, academic, and former
Early life and education
Born in Ohio, United States, Riggs was an undergraduate at
Academic career
From 2000 to 2003, Riggs was the Barns and Griffith Research Fellow at The Queen's College, Oxford.[4] She then joined the Manchester Museum, part of the University of Manchester, where she was curator of its Egyptian collection from 2004 to 2006; this led to her book Unwrapping Ancient Egypt.[4][5] From 2006 to 2007, she was museum education development officer in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.[4]
In 2007, Riggs was appointed a
Riggs has held posts at
With support from the British Academy and in collaboration with the Griffith Institute, Oxford University, Riggs curated an exhibition called Photographing Tutankhamun, shown at The Collection, Lincoln in 2017-18 and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, in 2018.[9]
Honours
Riggs was elected a
Riggs' monograph Unwrapping Ancient Egypt was named a runner-up in the 2015 BKFS prize for books in Middle Eastern Studies,[11] and long-listed for the Textile Society of America's R. L. Shep Ethnic Textiles award.[6]
Selected works
- Riggs, Christina (2006). The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt: Art, Identity, and Funerary Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199276653.
- Riggs, Christina, ed. (2012). The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199571451.
- Riggs, Christina (2014). Unwrapping Ancient Egypt. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-0857855398.
- Riggs, Christina (2014). Ancient Egyptian Art and Architecture: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199682782.
- Riggs, Christina (2017). ISBN 978-1780237268.
- Riggs, Christina (2017). Tutankhamun: The Original Photographs. Wales: Rupert Wace Ancient Art/The Gower Press. ISBN 978-0957506442.
- Riggs, Christina (2019). Photographing Tutankhamun: Archaeology, Ancient Egypt, and the Archive. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1350038523.
- Riggs, Christina (2020). Ancient Egyptian Magic: A Hands-On Guide. London: Thames & Hudson; Cairo and New York: AUC Press. ISBN 978-0500052129.
- Riggs, Christina (2021). Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century. London: Atlantic Books. ISBN 9781838950514.
References
- ^ University, Durham. "christina-j-riggs". www.durham.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
- ^ "Professor Christina Riggs | All Souls College". www.asc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
- ^ "PEW Literary | Author | Christina Riggs". www.pewliterary.com. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f "Professor Christina Riggs". All Souls College. University of Oxford. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
- ^ a b c "Christina Riggs". Research Database - People. The University of East Anglia. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
- ^ a b "Christina Riggs - Research Database, The University of East Anglia". people.uea.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
- ^ a b "All Souls College Oxford". www.asc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
- ^ "List of Evans - Pritchard Lectures, 1999 - 2017" (PDF). School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography. University of Oxford. 2017. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
- ^ "Venues". Photographing Tutankhamun. 1 May 2017. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
- ^ "Fellows Directory - Riggs". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
- ^ "2015". British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
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