Education

2014-2019

PhD in Egyptology, University of Birmingham (UK)

Thesis title: Scarab and Seal Amulet Production in the Early Eighteenth Dynasty: An Analysis of the Materials, Technology, and Surface Characteristics to Determine Seal Amulet Workshops

2013-2014

MA in Egyptian Archaeology, University College London (UK)

Thesis title: Scarab Production at Tell el-‘Ajjul in the Middle Bronze Age

2008-2013

BA in Near Eastern and Classical Archaeology, Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada)

Employment

2025-present

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in DFG/AHRC-funded project Craft Interactions in a New Kingdom Industrial Landscape (Egypt, 1550-1069 BCE) (FU Berlin and British Museum, project leads: Anna K. Hodgkinson and Frederik W. Rademakers; DFG project number 547419350).

2018-2025

Collections Manager at the Egypt Exploration Society (UK)

2018-2025

Managing Editor of the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology

2022

Taught The Rise and Fall of Amarna: The Archaeology and Ideology of a Short-Lived Capital (Online, EES)

2021

Co-taught Top Twenty Towns and Cities of Egypt (Online, EES) 

2017-2018

Egyptology Museum Curator, Leicester Museum and Art Gallery (UK). Curated new permanent galleries Life and Death in Ancient Egypt

2016-2018

Taught several undergraduate courses at the University of Birmingham (UK)

2014-2017

Postgraduate Curator of the Eton Myers Collection of Egyptian Art, University of Birmingham (UK)

Excavation

2022-present

The Amarna Project (Egypt)

2019

Third Cataract Project (Sudan)

2014-2016

Merimde Beni Salame/Delta Survey Project (Egypt)

2010-2012

Wadi Ath Thamad Iron Age Settlement Project (Jordan)

Research Interests

Scarab studies; Egyptian faience; ancient vitreous materials production; settlement archaeology; Egyptological archives; History of Egyptology; Amarna

Current research project: Craft Interactions in a New Kingdom Industrial Landscape (Egypt, 1550-1069 BCE)

(forthcoming). ‘The Scarabs of Rennefer: Evidence for a Theban typological workshop’. In: Ben Marzouk, N., Koch, I., Tucci, G., and Uehlinger, C. (eds), Production, Distribution, and Groups in Stamp Seals Research: Old Problems, Innovative Solutions. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis. Series Archaeologica. Leuven: Peeters.

2025

With C. Price. 2025. Ancient Egypt in 50 Discoveries: Highlights from the First Century of the Egypt Exploration Society. London: Egypt Exploration Society.

2024

With H. Maloigne. 2024. ‘Im Schatten der Großen: Quftis und Shergatis’, Antike Welt 4/2024: 65–69.

With H. Maloigne. 2024. ‘Im Schatten der Großen: Mary Chubb’, Antike Welt 2/2024: 64–68.

Stevens, A., Balestra, F., Driaux, D., Dabbs, G. R., Docherty, P., Boonstra, S. L., Tully, G., Bos, J.E.M.F., Lakin, T., Gasperini, V., Rose, P., and Bertram, M. 2024. ‘Tell el-Amarna, Autumn 2023 to Summer 2024’, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 110: 13–45.

2024. ‘Fundraising for Amarna: Evidence from the EES Archive’, in Gertzen, T. L., and Matthes, O. (eds), Oriental Societies and Societal Self-Assertation. Investigatio Orientis 10. Münster: Zaphon: 167–186.

2024. ‘The Mews-eum: A history of 4 Doughty Mews’, Egyptian Archaeology 64: 24–27.

2023

With A. K. Hodgkinson. 2023. ‘Mr. Hayter’s Notebook: Insights on the 1921 excavations at Amarna’, Egyptian Archaeology 63: 49–53.

With A. K. Hodgkinson. 2023. ‘A.G.K. Hayter at Amarna: A detailed notebook and a “new” glass workshop’, Horizon 23: 16–21.

2023. ‘Report on the study of faience tiles and inlays from the Great Aten Temple excavations, 2012– 2022’, in Kemp, B. J., Bertram, M., Hodgkinson, A., Balestra, F., Boonstra, S., Buccafusca, S., Docherty, P., Driaux, D., Friedrichs, J., Gasperini, V., Hill, M., Ikram, S., Kalmykova, C., Kelly, S., Mesli, A., Rose, P., Stimpson, C., Thompson, K., Torres, M., ‘Great Aten Temple Report on Recent Work (August 31st–November 3rd, 2023)’: 69–71. https://www.amarnaproject.com/pages/recent_projects/excavation/great_aten_temple/

2022

2022. ‘Conserving the EES Collections’, Egyptian Archaeology 61: 26-29.

2022. ‘Report on the study of faience tiles and inlays from excavations at the Great Aten Temple, 2012– 2015’, in Kemp, B. J., Bertram, M., Hodgkinson, A., Kelly, S., Friedrichs, J., Vilaró, J., Mesli, A., Kalmykova, C., Boonstra, S., and Glosauer, K., ‘Report on the work of the British Mission, including at the Great Aten Temple (Spring 2022)’: 19– 21. https://www.amarnaproject.com/pages/recent_projects/excavation/great_aten_temple/

2020

2020. ‘Finding Scarab Amulet Workshops in Ancient Egypt and Beyond: “Typological” vs. “Material” workshops’, in Hodgkinson, A. K., and Lelek Tvetmarken, C. (eds), Approaches to the Analysis of Production Activity at Archaeological Sites. Oxford: Archaeopress, 65–83.

2019

With A. Robinson. 2019. ‘Rehousing the EES glass-plate negatives’, Egyptian Archaeology 55: 44–47.

With C. Gobeil. 2019. ‘New investigations on the Third Cataract in Sudan’, Egyptian Archaeology 55: 4–8.

2018

With C. Graves. 2018. ‘Archaeology and Archives: Exploring Abydos’, Ancient Egypt 19/3: 16–23.

With C. Graves. 2018. ‘Archaeology and Archives: Exploring Armant’, Ancient Egypt 19/2: 45–51.

2017

2017. ‘Learning from “Wasters” and Mistakes in the Myers Collection’, Eton College Collections Journal 10: 16–17. http://etonweb.etoncollege.org.uk/friends/Journal10/mobile/index.html