Kara Cooney
| Kara Cooney | |
|---|---|
 Kara Cooney presenting at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 2014 | |
| Born | Kathlyn Cooney |
| Alma mater | Johns Hopkins University |
| Occupation | Egyptologist and Assistant Professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at UCLA |
| Website |
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Kathlyn M. (Kara) Cooney is an Egyptologist and associate professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at UCLA.[1] As well as for her scholarly work, she is known for hosting television shows on ancient Egypt on the Discovery Channel as well as for writing a popular-press book on the subject.
Education and career
Raised in Houston, she obtained her bachelor of arts from the University of Texas. She was awarded a PhD in 2002 by Johns Hopkins University for Near Eastern Studies. She was part of an archaeological team excavating at the artisans' village of Deir el Medina in Egypt, as well as Dahshur and various tombs at Thebes. In 2002 she was Kress Fellow at the National Gallery of Art and worked on the preparation of the Cairo Museum exhibition Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt. After a temporary one-year position at UCLA, she took a three year postdoctoral teaching position at Stanford University,[2] during which, In 2005, she acted as fellow curator for Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She also worked for two years at the Getty Center before landing a tenure-track position at UCLA in 2009.[2]
Television
She hosted two Discovery Channel documentary series: Out of Egypt,[3][4] first aired in August 2009,[5] and Egypt's Lost Queen,[6] which also featured Dr. Zahi Hawass.
Books
- Cooney, Kara (19 January 2015). The Woman Who Would be King. Oneworld Publications. ISBN 978-1-78074-651-7.[7][8][9][10]
- Cooney, Kathlyn M. (2007). The Cost of Death: The Social and Economic Value of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Art in the Ramesside Period. Egyptologische Uitgaven 22. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten. ISBN 978-90-6258-222-8.[11]
Personal
Cooney's paternal grandparents were from County Cork in Ireland. She is named after her Irish-Protestant grandmother Kathlyn Mary, who was disowned by her family for marrying her Irish-Catholic grandfather James. Her mother is Italian, her grandmother was from the Abruzzi region, and her grandfather from Naples.[12]
Cooney is married to TV writer/producer Neil Crawford.[13] She uses the name Kathlyn for her scholarly work, and her nickname Kara for professional but non-academic work.[2]
References
- ↑ Kathlyn Cooley, UCLA Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, retrieved 2015-10-24.
- 1 2 3 Peabody, Rebecca (2014), "Interview: Kathlyn "Kara" Cooney", The Unruly PhD: Doubts, Detours, Departures, and Other Success Stories, Palgrave Macmillan (St. Martin's Press), pp. 41–53, ISBN 978-1-137-31946-3
- ↑ Vincent Terrace (3 September 2010). The Year in Television, 2009: A Catalog of New and Continuing Series, Miniseries, Specials and TV Movies. McFarland. pp. 127–. ISBN 978-0-7864-5644-4.
- ↑ Parker, Paige (September 20, 2009), "Out of Egypt and onto the screen", Daily Bruin.
- ↑ Funes, Juliette (August 24, 2009), "UCLA professor Kara Cooney hosts 'Out of Egypt' on Discovery Channel", Los Angeles Times.
- ↑ Lee, Colleen M. (December 1, 2008), "Kara Cooney digs up the dirt; An expert on Hatshepsut gives us the inside scoop", Curve.
- ↑ "The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt", Kirkus Reviews, August 15, 2014
- ↑ "The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt", Nonfiction Book Review, Publishers Weekly, retrieved 2015-10-24
- ↑ Donoghue, Steve (2014), "Book Review: The Woman Who Would Be King", Open Letters Monthly
- ↑ Sarll, Alex (February 20, 2015), "Book review: The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise To Power In Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney", The Press and Journal
- ↑ Exell, Karen (January 2010), "The Cost of Death: The Social and Economic Value of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Art in the Ramesside Period" (PDF), Book Reviews, American Journal of Archeology 114 (1)
- ↑ "Dr. Kara Cooney and a Few More Words About Ancient Egypt • Public Republic". Public-republic.net. Retrieved 2011-08-04.
- ↑ Sullivan, Meg (2009-06-30). "Egyptologist pulls together threads woven through ancient civilizations / UCLA Today". Today.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2011-08-04.
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