“I’m fascinated by language in all its facets” – 5in10 with Wendy Doyon
Wendy Doyon is a historian of modern Egypt and Egyptology. She received her PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania in 2021 and is currently revising her dissertation for a book entitled Empire of Dust: State, Labor, and Archaeology in Nineteenth-century Egypt. She was a CAORC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the American Research Center in Egypt 2022–2024, and she co-directs the Arabic Excavation Archive from Quft project at Harvard University. Her research focuses primarily on French, English, and Arabic sources in archaeological archives from Egypt and Sudan and she writes on the history of archaeology from both Egyptian and multicultural/global perspectives. In the academic year 2024/25, she is a EUME Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien.


