Lecture and Discussion with Politics and Prose bookshop in Washington DC. This online class will be streamed live and recorded for later viewing.

This talk will detail the original work done by Margaret Benson and Janet Gourlay on the site of the Temple of Mut, as well as their personal relationship, demonstrating that they were a genuine scientific partnership.

In this brief presentation to the Kelsey Museum on Zoom, I will talk about the exciting and sometimes dangerous work women were doing on excavation in the early days of Egyptology.

Presented with the American Society for Overseas Research (ASOR), this talk will detail the ways in which the work women did on site at Abydos in the early 20^th century impacted our understanding and reception of one of the most important sites in all of ancient Egypt. Registration link forthcoming!

Join a conversation with NYT Best-selling author Fiona Davis about her new book, The Stolen Queen.

Kathleen Sheppard will be in conversation this evening with Dr. Julia Troche, an Egyptologist and Associate Professor of History at Missouri State University.

The history of Egyptology is often told as yet one more grand narrative of powerful men striving to seize the day and the precious artifacts for their competing homelands. But that is only half of the story. During the so-called Golden Age of Exploration, there were women working and exploring before Howard Carter discovered the tomb of King Tut. Before men even conceived of claiming the story for themselves, women were working in Egypt to lay the groundwork for all future exploration. In Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age, Kathleen Sheppard brings the untold stories of these women back into this narrative.

This talk will detail the ways in which the work women did on site at Abydos in the early 20th century impacted our understanding and reception of one of the most important sites in all of ancient Egypt.

This talk will demonstrate the impact of women’s work in American Egyptology

This presentation will discuss the work of two main American Egyptologists, Charles Wilbour (1833-1896) and James Breasted (1865-1935), their travel on the Nile, and their subsequent impact on the discipline in the US.

This talk will demonstrate the impact of women’s work in American Egyptology

(Re)Introduction to some of the women in Egyptology.

The 1889-90 United States Lecture Tour of Amelia Edwards and Kate Bradbury

This talk will take attendees on a tour of New York between 1889 and 1916, shedding light on some of the city’s oldest Egyptological sights.

This talk will detail Benson’s three years of excavation and staying at the Luxor Hotel, culminating in the first major publication of the site, The Temple of Mut in Asher (1899) with her partner Janet Gourlay