Participant Info
- First Name
- Katja
- Last Name
- Goebs
- Country
- Canada
- State
- katja.goebs@utoronto.ca
- Affiliation
- Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Egyptology, Egyptian and Comparative Mythology, Kingship and Royalty, Royal Crowns and Iconography, Metaphor Formation and Cognition, Digital Humanities
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Academic CV:
2005-present: Associate Professor, Dept. of NMC, U. of Toronto
1998: PhD University of Oxford/UK (St. John’s College)
1992: MA, University of Hamburg/FRG
Research Projects:
Mar. 2017 – Mar. 2021: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – Insight Grant
(Project: “Myth, Metaphor, Mythical Thinking – Functions and Uses of Myth in Ancient Egypt”)
Sept. 2011 – Aug. 2012: Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung
(Project: “Icon and Metaphor: Egyptian iconography and its textual equivalents, with a focus on the expression of divine light”
Apr. 2008 – Mar. 2013: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Standard Research Grant
(Project: “Divine Light: Luminous aspects of divinity in Egypt and Mesopotamia”)
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Egypt (ancient)
- Expertise by Geography
- Africa
- Expertise by Chronology
- Ancient
- Expertise by Topic
- Art & Architectural History, Material Culture, Religion
