CSUSB’s graduate program in applied archaeology and the Wadi el-Hudi Expedition to the Egyptian Eastern Desert featured their work at the event that celebrated International Archaeology Day on Oct. 20.
A group of CSUSB students are the inaugural recipients of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, a two-year program that provides support to underrepresented students to pursue a doctorate in the humanities.
Jessica Tomkins, who earned her doctorate in Egyptology from Brown University last year, was selected to be CSUSB’s inaugural W. Benson Harer Egyptology Scholar in Residence.
Kate Liszka, CSUSB assistant professor of history and the Pamela and Benson Harer Fellow specializing in Egyptology, is leading the students on the trip.
Kate Liszka, The The Benson and Pamela Harer Fellow at Cal State San Bernardino, was interviewed for an article on the latest discovery at Wadi el-Hudi in Egypt. Liszka is the director of the Wadi el-Hudi expedition.
The Wadi el-Hudi Expedition in Egypt, directed by Kate Liszka, the Benson and Pamela Harer Fellow and assistant professor of history, was awarded the Ellen and Charles Steinmetz Endowment Fund for Archaeology.
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