The twenty students and scholars below were awarded places to carry out their research in London with the support of the Trust in 2024. The Trust will be inviting applications for visits in 2025 in the autumn – see here.

ABDELFATTAH, Asmaa, Curator, the Egyptian Museum, Cairo; PhD student, Cairo University, EGYPT: ‘Publishing a Collection of Papyri from the Third Intermediate Period in the Egyptian Museum and the British Museum (A Study in Religious Iconography)’. Second visit.

AJEEB, Dr Suheil, Electrical engineer (MSc, Electrical Power Systems, Cairo University), Syria; power plant operator, Libya (formerly trainee supervisor in Ghana):  Completion of training course in “Transmission Planning in electrical power systems (Programmable logic controllers)”. Second visit.

BUFFA CESAR, Dr Marina, postdoctoral researcher, National Museum of Rio de Janeiro/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL: ‘A biography of things: determining the morphological changes of objects from the National Museum’s Egyptian collection after the 2018 fire, and interpreting their chaine operatóire between past and present’.

CORNELISSE, Eva Laurine Alice, PhD student, Leiden University, THE NETHERLANDS: ‘Piccinini, ‘Someone who knew the antiquities’- European presence and Egyptological activities in early 19th Century western Thebes’.

DIXON, Sonia, PhD student, Florida State University, Florida, U S A: ‘The Iconography of Transition: The Chi-rho during the Late Antique Period’.

ELNAGAR, Warda, Inspector of Antiquities at Karnak Temples, Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities; PhD student, University of Rennes 2, FRANCE: ‘Recherches Archéologiques à Tell Dafana dans le cadre du Projet National du 30 Juin “Les éléments architecturaux et les mobiliers céramique”’. Second visit.

ELNAGGAR, Amany, Curator & Ceramologist, the Egyptian Museum, Cairo;  PhD student,  Cairo University, Egypt: ‘The Festival of Sokar in both Greek and Roman eras. A comparative study’. Second visit.

ELNASSEH, Ahmed, Inspector of Antiquities at Karnak Temples, Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities; Pre-master’s student, University of Luxor, EGYPT: ‘Study and Publication a Group of Funerary Cones from the Artifacts of AbulGud Magazines’.

GAIDYSHEV, Nikita, Undergraduate student of History, Faculty of Arts & Humanities, NRU Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg, Russia: completion of article, ‘The Formation of the Image of Russia in England of the XVI – XVII centuries, with particular reference to the Muscovy Trade Company’.

HAJJAJ, Ezzeldin, Research assistant, Department of Archaeology, University of Khartoum, SUDAN: ‘Museums as an effective agent of peace and reconciliation in Sudan: case study: western Sudan community museums (WSCM).’

IBRAHIM, Dr Amira, Archaeologist at Karnak Temples, Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities; postdoctoral researcher: ‘Catalogue of the Karnak Terracotta Figurines in front of the 1st Pylon for the period 2011-2013’. Second visit.

JOHNSON, Peter, PhD student, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University: ‘Aithiopia Abroad: The Role of Kush in a Network of Cultural Exchange in the Greater Mediterranean, 663 – 404 BCE’.

MUÑOZ PÉREZ, Dr Carmen, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Cádiz, SPAIN: ‘Amulets in Egyptian funerary rituals. A case study from the collection of the Louvre Museum’.

RADOSAVLEVIĆ-KRSMANOVIĆ, Dr Anica, Assistant professor and post-doctoral researcher, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Philology & Arts, University of Kragujevac,  Serbia:  Completion of monograph, “Individual differences in the process of foreign language learning and teaching”. Second visit.

RADOVANOVIĆ, Dr Aleksandar, Assistant professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Philology & Arts, University of Kragujevac, Serbia:  Completion of monograph: “The Cultural Implications of Jewish Immigration in Late-Victorian East London”. Second visit.

REINIKAINEN, Samuel, PhD student, Department of Cultures, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki, FINLAND: ‘Disfigured Kings and Defaced Gods: Iconoclasm in the Ancient Near East’.

SELIM, Eman, PhD student, Ain Shams University, EGYPT:  ‘Green Conservation and Digital Preservation of Hassan Rajab Papyri Collection Housed at Ain Shams University’.

TERLECKIENĖ, Eleonora, Junior research fellow, Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Vilnius; PhD student, Faculty of Philology, University of Vilnius: ‘Andreus Grutinius’ Melancholiae descriptio (1597), with particular reference to its dedicatee Prince Mikolaj Krzysztof Radziwiłł ‘the Orphan’ (1549–1616) and the court milieu of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth’.

WEISS, Kira, PhD student, Department of Music, University of California, Santa Barbara, U S A: ‘Orchestrating Egypt: Cultural Politics and the Adoption of New Instruments in Egyptian Arab Music’.

ZAKY, Dr Reham, Inspector of Antiquities (Archaeologist), Central Department of Upper Egyptian Antiquities, Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities; postdoctoral researcher, Cairo University, EGYPT: ‘Egyptian antiquities protection before the current legalization through scattered archives’.

For information about visiting scholars from previous years please see here.