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The American Research Center in Egypt

Northern California Chapter

Join us to explore the history and culture of Egypt from before the Pharaohs into the Age of Alexander and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar and Marc Antony; the rise of Christianity and its fall to Islamic conquerors; into the age of the Caliphs, the Mamelukes and Napoleon Bonaparte; and finally the rise of modern Egypt beginning with Mohammed Ali and the early European travelers and explorers, culminating in the Egyptian republic in its many changing forms.

Alyson Caine awarded Buttery Memorial Student Grant

Our chapter is pleased to award our 2021 ARCE Northern California Marie Buttery Memorial Student Grant to Alyson Caine, a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Merced. Alyson’s dissertation research focuses on a legacy collection from Lisht that was originally excavated by the Egyptian Expedition Fund in the early 20th century. Since then, its skeletal material, archival documents and archaeological finds have been separately housed in various Western institutions. Alyson plans to use our grant to collect osteological data from the large suite of skeletal material housed at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C. Her research aims to recontextualize and synthesize data from this and other collections to better understand mortuary practices, specifically their relation to lived experience and identity during the Middle Kingdom. Marie Buttery was founding president of ARCE Northern California in the mid-1990s. Each spring, our chapter awards a grant in her memory to an undergraduate or graduate student in Egyptology who attends school or has a hometown in Northern California. We also award a grant each winter to honor Dr. Eugene Cruz-Uribe, a chapter member and Greco-Roman specialist who died in 2018. Eligibility is the same as for the Buttery grant. Call for applications will go out in late fall.

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