Beth Wang

Beth Wang is a first-year PhD student in Egyptology who studies the art and material culture of ancient Egypt. Her research interests include decorative motifs in Egyptian architecture, the development of Egyptian religious texts, and ancient perceptions of landscape and the environment. The subject of both her undergraduate and master’s theses concerned apotropaic objects and childbirth in the Middle Kingdom. 

Beth spent two seasons excavating in Sicily with the Contrada Agnese Project of the American Excavations at Morgantina. She has worked in museums including the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the University of Chicago’s Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (formerly the OI), and the Princeton University Art Museum. During her master’s program, she participated in a database project investigating the transmission of Egyptian mortuary spells with the University of Chicago’s Critical Editions for Digital Analysis and Research (CEDAR) initiative. 

Beth graduated cum laude from Princeton University in 2018 with a bachelor’s degree in the History of Art and a minor in Archaeology. She received her master’s degree from the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago in 2023. She proudly hails from Prairie Village, Kansas and can often be found squinting over her translation homework in the NELC lounge or singing with the Yale Camerata.