Fiona Burdette
Fiona Burdette is a PhD student in Egyptology. She completed her Bachelor’s in 2021 at Wake Forest University with a double major in Mathematics and German, a minor in Art History, and a scholarship in Cello Performance. She then received the Fulbright and DAAD scholarships to study in the Master’s in Egyptology (Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte Nordostafrikas) at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin, Germany, which she completed in 2024. Her Master’s thesis applied Systemic Functional Linguistics to the text of the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus.
Fiona has worked for a month at the DAI (German Archaeological Institute) in Cairo and has participated on an excavation of an ancient Roman estate in Tuttlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, with the company ArchaeoTask. She has also completed an internship at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akadamie der Wissenschaften digitizing hieroglyphic texts and transcribing Egyptological journals written in the old German scripts Kurrent and Sütterlin, similar to her BA Honors project. During a university excursion to Luxor, Fiona gave a presentation on Deir el-Medina in situ, and she has given presentations in the Neues Museum in Berlin on Hatshepsut and on 18th Dynasty objects. Fiona additionally loves performing all styles of music on cello and mandolin, playing tennis, and running.