Professor Stephanie Moser
Professor

Stephanie Moser is a Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton.
My work focuses on the representation and reception of the past, and my approach is interdisciplinary and international. Collaborating with researchers in cultural history, art history and the history of science, I examine the construction of ideas and knowledge about ancient ancestors that are generated through images, museum displays and art. This theme has been explored in my projects on the depiction of human evolution, the representation of ancient Egypt, antiquarian and archaeological illustration, and reception theory (the investigation of how audiences engage with the past). In addition to these topics, I have worked on the delineation of methods for collaborative practice with source communities in archaeology, most notably with the Quseir Heritage Project in Egypt.
Included in my published works are the books Ancestral Images - The iconography of human antiquity (Cornell 1998), Wondrous Curiosities - Ancient Egypt at the British Museum (Chicago 2006), Designing Antiquity - Owen Jones, Ancient Egypt and the Crystal Palace (Yale 2012), and Painting Antiquity - Ancient Egypt in the art of Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Edward Poynter and Edwin Long (Oxford 2020). With Sam Smiles I edited Envisioning the Past - Archaeology and the image (Blackwell 2005), and with Simon Keay I edited Greek Art in View (Oxbow 2004). Articles I have published in journals such as Isis, The Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, Museum Anthropology, World Archaeology, and Antiquity examine archaeological and antiquarian illustration, the analysis of museum displays, archaeological reception studies, and community archaeology. Major grants I have received include those of the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, English Heritage, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. I have been fortunate to supervise a large number of interdisciplinary and innovative PhD projects, including those which examine the representation of the ancient world, archaeological visualisation, archaeology and the media (film, television and print), and community archaeology.
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