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Laurel D. Bestock serves as the Joukowsky Family Associate Professor in Archaeology with a focus on the Ancient World, particularly Egyptology and Assyriology, at Brown University. Her research emphasizes material culture and archaeological recording methodologies, with a keen interest in kingship, monumentality, and the cultural context and interactions depicted through art and architecture. Bestock co-directs excavations at Uronarti, Sudan, alongside colleague Christian Knoblauch from Swansea University, investigating a monumental fortress established by conquering Egyptian kings in the early 2nd millennium BC. Her recent publication, 'Violence and Power in Ancient Egypt: Images and Ideology in the New Kingdom', explores the role of imagery in the tactics of power within early Egyptian state formation. Currently, she is developing a universal tablet-based archaeological recording system which relies on internet synchronization, having been utilized across various sites in projects in Italy and Peru, as well as non-Brown projects in Egypt and Cyprus. Bestock holds a BA from Brown University, an MA, and a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.
Department: Department of Economics