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Faculty Fellow

Janet Johnson

Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor of Egyptology, the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the Program on the Ancient Mediterranean World in the Department of Classics University of Chicago

Biography

Janet H. Johnson's main interests include Egyptian language and Egypt in the "Late Period" (1st millennium B.C.). She is Director of the Chicago Demotic Dictionary Project.

For more on Johnson's research and publications, please visit her faculty page.

Project

Transmission of Magical Knowledge in Antiquity: The Papyrus Magical Handbook

2015 – 2019