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  1. Who we are
  2. Meet the team
  3. Staff

Staff

The Egypt Exploration Society operates from two offices. Our main office is in London and is where our publications and financial activities operate from, as well as where we store our library and archive. The London office has four members of staff running our core activities. We have a second office in Cairo within the British Council in Agouza. Our education and training programme in Egypt are run from this office, as well as forming a hub for our archaeological work in Egypt.

Details of our staff members and their roles can be found below, while details of how to find us can be found here.  

Dr Carl Graves

Director

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Carl started working for the Egypt Exploration Society in 2013 when he was appointed Education and Public Engagement Manager, since then he has organised the Society’s educational and engagement programmes, fundraising, and communications. Until 2018, Carl also oversaw the Society’s collections and their accompanying volunteering and intern projects. In 2014 he assisted staff and interns with the implementation of an online catalogue as well as the retrospective referencing of the Lucy Gura Archive. Together with Kelly Accetta, Carl organised the first Egyptian Archaeology Skills School in 2014 which has run annually since. In 2018, Carl was instrumental in resurrecting the British Egyptology Congress at the KNH Centre, University of Manchester.

As Director, Carl is also now responsible for managing the Society's day-to-day operations in its London and Cairo Offices and works closely with Board, Committees, volunteers, and staff to deliver the Society’s charitable activities, research, and publications programme.

Carl has previously worked at Elephantine (DAI, 2010) and the Third Cataract Project (EES, 2019), and in 2018 he also achieved a certificate in fundraising from the Institute of Fundraising (UK).

Carl completed his PhD at the University of Birmingham in 2017 on the topic of cultural landscapes of the Nile Valley during the Middle Kingdom with a particular focus on the region around Beni Hasan (the Oryx Nome, 16th Upper Egyptian). He also holds a BA in Ancient History and MPhil(B) in Egyptology also from the University of Birmingham. During his studies, Carl was also the Postgraduate Curator of the Eton College William Joseph Myers Collection of Egyptian Art and a co-founded Birmingham Egyptology in 2011. Carl has previously taught courses on collection management, exhibition design, travellers and collectors, orientalism, Egyptian materials and manufacturing, and Egyptian-Nubian intercultural communications.

Carl presents regularly about the EES and his own research at local societies around the UK and has provided educational workshops in Cairo, Alexandria, and London.

Published: 21st July, 2017

Updated: 1st October, 2019

Author: Carl Graves

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Dr Jan Geisbusch

Publications Manager

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Jan is responsible for the production of the Society’s colour magazine, Egyptian Archaeology, is involved in the design of our internal print communications, such as reports and leaflets, and oversees the EES book publications from development to typesetting to print, including liaison with our distributors in the USA and the UK.

He holds degrees in Business Studies (Dipl.-Kaufmann) from Trier University (Germany), in Arts Management & Cultural Studies (BA) from the University of North London (now part of London Metropolitan University) and from University College London, where he gained his PhD in Anthropology with a thesis on the material culture of popular religious practice within contemporary Catholicism.

Before joining the EES in late 2013, he has worked in a number of freelance positions, including market intelligence reporter for Euromonitor Ltd and assistant editor for the Journal of Material Culture and Home Cultures (both based at University College London). He is currently also part-time editor and social media manager of Oper!, a German opera magazine based in Berlin.

For enquiries relating to submissions to Egyptian Archaeology or the EES book programme, please contact [email protected]

Published: 21st July, 2017

Updated: 2nd June, 2020

Author: Carl Graves

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Dr Stephanie Boonstra

Collections Manager and Managing Editor of the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology

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Stephanie manages the Society’s library and archives, which includes overseeing cataloguing, new acquisitions, volunteer projects, researchers in accessing the collections. During her Master’s degree at UCL, she was an EES archive volunteer and contributed towards the Access Archives Afternoons (also called Friday Spotlights). She is also a member of Dr Joanne Rowland’s EES excavation team at Merimde Beni Salama in the Nile Delta and worked on the EES Third Cataract Project in Sudan in 2019. 

Since 2019, Stephanie is also the Managing Editor of the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology and liaises with editors, publishers, peer reviewers, and authors as well as copy edits the submissions for publication. 

Stephanie has recently completed her PhD at the University of Birmingham focusing on the production of 18th Dynasty scarab amulets. She previously received a BA in Near Eastern Archaeology from Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, Canada), where she worked as a supervisor on the Khirbat al-Mudayna, Wadi ath-Thamad excavation project in Jordan. She also holds an MA in Egyptian Archaeology from UCL, where her research focus was on the SIP scarabs of Tell el-'Ajjul. Prior to commencing work at the EES, she worked as the Postgraduate Curator of the Eton College William Joseph Myers Collection of Egyptian Art at the University of Birmingham where she also taught undergraduate courses and assisted in collection and exhibition training. More recently she was employed as the Museum Curator of Egyptology at New Walk Museum in Leicester where she curated, designed, and installed the new Life and Death in Ancient Egypt permanent galleries.

For library enquires, contact [email protected] 

For archive enquiries, contact [email protected] 

For JEA enquiries, contact [email protected] 

Published: 11th July, 2018

Updated: 6th May, 2020

Author: Carl Graves

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Essam Nagy

Fieldwork and Engagement Manager

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Essam holds an MA from Cairo University where his research focused on the building activities of Napatan rulers at Karnak during the 25th Dynasty. Since 2010 he has directed work at the Osiris Ptah Nebankh Research Project (OPNARP), including a 25th Dynasty chapel, at Karnak where he was previously employed at Inspector of Antiquities for the MoA.

Essam has previous fieldwork experience across Egypt including the temple of Dendera (IFAO), Qurna (ARCE), and Qubbet el-Hawa Research Project (EES). His professional training includes photography, archaeological surveying, epigraphy, and illustration.

Since 2013, Essam has been employed as the EES Fieldwork and Engagement Manager in Cairo. In this role he liaises with the Ministry of Antiquities and other Egyptian institutions on behalf of the Society in order to facilitate archaeological missions. He also organises the Society’s educational and training events for students and researchers in Egypt and manages the day-to-day running of the EES Cairo Office.

Published: 21st July, 2017

Updated: 14th October, 2019

Author: Carl Graves

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Neville Leslie

Finance and Administration Manager

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Neville manages the Society’s finances and book distribution as well as activities operating from the London Office. 

Published: 26th February, 2018

Updated: 4th June, 2019

Author: Carl Graves

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