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Emily Teeter she/her/hers

Research Interests

Egyptology; Social History; Religion; Material Culture; History of Egyptology

Portrait of Emily Teeter

About

Emily Teeter has spent her career in museums as a curator of Egyptian and Nubian collections and as a coordinator and initiator of special exhibits: 1978–1980 at the Seattle Art Museum; 1990–2017 at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago; 2024–present at the Field Museum, Chicago. She has consulted on installations of Egyptian artifacts at the Art Institute Chicago, The Field Museum, the St. Louis Art Museum and other institutions. Since 2018 she has served as the editor of the Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt. She was the President of ARCE from 2009 to 2012, and she served on its board for many years. She is a founding member of the Chicago Chapter of ARCE (2005) and has been on its board since its inception. She has also served on the board of CIPEG (Egyptology working group of ICOM) for many years. Emily is the author of many academic monographs as well as a wide range of popular articles.

Education

PhD Egyptology University of Chicago
1990
BA History University of Washington
1974

ISAC Publications

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Books

  • Emily Teeter and Ashley F. Arico. Ancient Egyptian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2025.
  • Emily Teeter. Religion and Ritual in Ancient Egypt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 
    🏅Nominated for Best Archaeology Book in the 2012 British Archaeological Awards. 
  • Douglas J. Brewer and Emily Teeter. Egypt and the Egyptians. Second edition, revised. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
    🌍Translated into Turkish and Arabic editions.

Edited Volumes

  • Jana Martínková, Pavel Onderka, and Emily Teeter (eds.). In the Shadow of a Pyramid: The Egyptian Collection of L. V. Holzmaister. Prague: National Museum, 2015.

Articles

  • Emily Teeter. "In the Presence of the God." In Divine Egypt, edited by D. Craig Patch and B. Hainline, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2025, pp. 13–23.
  • Emily Teeter. “A stela of the family of Sennedjem and the goddess Mut.” In The Overseer of Works in Memphis and Thebes: Studies in Honour of Nigel Strudwick, edited by Melanie Pitkin, Abercromby Press, 2023, 309–19.
  • Emily Teeter. “A ‘New’ Stela of the Vizier To (OIM E14655),” in Up and down the Nile – ägyptologische Studien für Regine Schulz, 267–74, M. Ullmann, F. Hoffmann, and G. Pieke (eds.), Ägypten und Altes Testament 97, Munich, 2021.
  • Emily Teeter. “A New Version of Book of the Dead 30B: Art Institute Chicago Heart Scarab 1985.1359,” in The Afterlives of Egyptian: Reuse and Reformulation of Objects, Places, and Texts, in Honor of Edward Bleiberg, Yekaterina Barbash and Kathlyn Cooney (eds.), AUC Press, 2021. 
  • Emily Teeter. “The Raw, the Cooked, and the Immolated: The Preparation of Meat Offerings in Ancient Egypt,” in Marie-Lys Arnette (ed.), Religion et alimentation en Égypte et Orient anciens, vol II, RAPH 43, 353–85, IFAO, Cairo, 2019.
  • Emily Teeter. “Earthly and Mythical Mothers in Ancient Egypt” in Motherhood in the Ancient World, Dana Cooper and Claire Phelan (eds.), pp. 145–67, Palgrave/Macmillan, 2017.
  • Emily Teeter. "Religion and Ritual." In A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art, edited by Melinda Hartwig, pp. 328–343. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014
  • Emily Teeter. "Egypt." In The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Mediterranean Religions, edited by Barbette Spaeth, pp. 13–32. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
  • Emily Teeter. "Egypt in Chicago: A Story of Three Museums." In Studies in Honor of David P. Silverman, edited by Zahi Hawass and Jennifer Houser Wegner, pp. 303–314. Cairo: Conseil Supreme des Antiquities de L’ Égyptie, 2010.
  • Emily Teeter. "Temple Cults." In The Egyptian World, edited by Toby Wilkinson, pp. 310–324. Routledge 2007.
  • Emily Teeter. "Female Musicians in Ancient Egypt." In Rediscovering the Muses: Women in Music, Prehistory to the Renaissance, edited by Kimberly Marshall, pp. 68–91. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993.

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