PhD Maria Carme Belarte
Archaeology, Iron Age Archaeology
Archaeology
Egyptology
Settlement archaeology and Social relationships
Material culture (including semiotic aspects of interpreting the archaeological evidence)
Cultural identities (in particular Kushites in Egypt)
Funerary culture and Mortuary architecture
Cult of Osiris at Abydos
Cultural contact
Field archaeology in Egypt and Sudan
DiverseNile, ERC Consolidator Grant 2019
Across ancient borders and cultures: An Egyptian microcosm in Sudan during the 2nd millennium BC, ERC Starting Grant 2012
Across ancient borders and cultures / Im Spannungsfeld antiker Grenzen und Kulturen, START prize of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), 2012
PhD-fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna (DOC programme; cut short because of appointment in Berlin), 10/2003 – 12/2003
Research fellowship in the field of archaeology; The Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Art and Culture, 10/2001 – 06/2002
ancient Egyptian, ancient Greek, Coptic, English, German, Italian, Latin, middle Egyptian, Spanish
Die 18. Dynastie auf Sai Island (Nordsudan) – neue Puzzlesteine als Ergebnisse der Feldkampagne 2013, Sokar 26, 78-87.
Festival Pottery of New Kingdom Egypt: Three Case Studies, in Functional Aspects of Egyptian Ceramics within their Archaeological Context. Proceedings of a Conference held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, July 24th – July 25th, 2009, ed. by B. Bader & M. F. Ownby, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 217, Leuven, 185-213.
Individuen, indigene Gruppe oder integrierter Teil der ägyptischen Gesellschaft? Zur soziologischen Aussagekraft materieller Hinterlassenschaften von Kuschiten im spätzeitlichen Ägypten, in Sozialisationen: Individuum – Gruppe – Gesellschaft, Münchner Arbeitskreis Junge Ägyptologie 1, ed. by G. Neunert, K. Gabler & A. Verbovsek, Göttinger Orientforschungen Reihe IV, Wiesbaden, 45-60.
Kuschiten in Abydos: Einige Überlegungen zur Nutzung von Cemetery D (Mace) während der 25. Dynastie, Göttinger Miszellen 232, 29-51.
Zur Notwendigkeit einer kritischen Archäologie – einige Bemerkungen aus ägyptologischer Perspektive, Forum kritische Archäologie 1, Berlin, 110-115.
The early New Kingdom at Sai Island: Preliminary results based on the pottery analysis (4th Season 2010), Sudan & Nubia 15, 23-33.
Fundmaterial aus Gräbern: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der archäologischen Interpretation und ihre didaktische Vermittlung, in Methodik und Didaktik in der Ägyptologie. Herausforderungen eines kulturwissenschaftlichen Paradigmenwechsels in den Altertumswissenschaften, ed. by A. Verbovsek, B. Backes & C. Jones, Ägyptologie und Kulturwissenschaft, Munich, 185-204.
The use of pottery in funerary contexts during the Libyan and Late Period: A view from Thebes and Abydos, in Egypt in Transition. Social and Religious Development of Egypt in the First Millenium BCE, ed. by L. Bares, F. Coppens & K. Smoláriková, Prague, 22-72.
Jointly with Ute Effland & Andreas Effland, Studien zum Osiriskult in Umm el-Qaab/Abydos – Ein Vorbericht, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo 66, 19-91.
Bestattungsbrauchtum und Friedhofsstruktur im Asasif. Eine Untersuchung der spätzeitlichen Befunde anhand der Ergebnisse der österreichischen Ausgrabungen in den Jahren 1969-1977, Untersuchungen der Zweigstelle Kairo des Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts 34, Denkschriften der Gesamtakademie 59, Vienna.
DiverseNile – ERC Consolidator Grant: Cultural diversity in the Middle Nile Valley. Reconstructing biographies in the periphery of urban centres in northern Sudan during the Bronze Age, since 2020
MUAFS Project – Munich University Attab to Ferka Survey Project, since 2018
AcrossBorders – ERC Starting Grant: research project focused on settlement archaeology in Egypt and Nubia, 2012 – 2018
Im Spannungsfeld antiker Grenzen und Kulturen (Across ancient borders and cultures): assessment of settlement patterns in Upper Nubia and Egypt during the New Kingdom, main focus on Sai Island, START project of Austrian Science Fund (FWF), 2012 – 2017
Center for Advanced Studies, LMU Munich, since 2020
Scientific advisory board of the series “Kitab – Egyptology in Focus”, NICANOR Books, UK, since 2020
Austrian Academy of Sciences (corresponding member), since 2019
One of five elected speakers of the START-grantees of Austria, since 2019
International Society for Nubian Studies, since 2018
Scientific advisory board of the journal “Der Antike Sudan”, Berlin, since 2018
Scientific advisory board of the journal “Rivista del Museo Egizio”, Turino, since 2017
Member of the commitee “Conferences on Ancient Egyptian Royal Ideology“ (with Horst Beinlich and Andreas Pries, including editing conference proceedings), since 2016
Board of directors of the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2015 – 2018
Münchner Zentrum Antike Welt and ArchaeoBioCenter, Munich, since 2015
Advisory board of the journal “Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde” and “ZÄS Beihefte”, Berlin, since 2014
Member of the managing board of the organisation Freunde des Naturhistorischen Museums, since 2014
Advisory board of the online, open-access journal Forum kritische Archäologie, Berlin, since 2011
Ö1 Podcast „Versuch und Irrtum“, invited by FWF, 2020
Interview about new finds in Saqqara, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 08.10. 2020
Interview about 50 years of the moon landing, Der Standard, 20.06.2019
„Der Tod ist kostspielig“, report about Ankh-Hor project, Die Presse, print 06.04.2019, online 09.04.2019
Die Schminke schütze vor der Sonne“, Interview in the FAZ Magazin, Schönheit Spezial, p. 26., November 2018
Wunderbauten der Welt – Pyramiden“, Guest appearance in the children's TV program „1, 2 oder 3“, 29.10.2018 (first broadcast 19.01.2019)
TV interview for ZDF-History documentary „Cäsar und Kleopatra: Macht oder Liebe?“, first broadcast 29.06. 2018
Vom Militärlager zum Gold-handels-Zentrum der Pharaonen, Press report on AcrossBorders project, Der Standard, 03.03.2018
Video about AcrossBorders project, first broadcast February 2018
Instigator and blogger of the Young-Academy-Blog at DerStandard.at, 2017 – 2019
Was Kochtöpfe aus Ägypten über antike Siedlungen im Sudan verraten, Post for Archäologie-Blog, 12.01.2017
Goldschmiedemeister Chnummoses wunderschöner Stein-Uschebti, Post for Archäologie-Blog, 23.02.2017
Lara Croft vs. Indiana Jones. Oder: Zur Chancengleichheit in archäologischen Wissenschaften, Guest comment for APA Science, 28.09.2017
Ägyptische Siedlungspoltik der Antike, Video about FWF project by the FWF, 02.08. 2017
Forscher haben nichts zu verlieren, Radio interview (Ö1 – Mittagsjournal), 19.04.2016
Wenn ich groß bin, werde ich Professorin, Newspaper interview, Der Standard (with Marie-Therese Wolfram), 21.04. 2016
Vom Kommen und Gehen in der Wissenschaft, Guest comment for APA Science, 06.08.2015
Ägyptologe, Antisemit, Weit mehr als ein Mitläufer, About Hermann Junker, Newspaper interview, Der Standard, 20.02.2013
Niemand sitzt mehr im Elfenbeinturm, Interview for APA Science about „Forscher im Rampenlicht“, 24.01.2013
„Leben in der Fremde“, Portrait in the magazine Universum, Universum 9, September 2012, pp. 100-102
Spitzenforscherin erhält EU-Millionen, Portrait in the magazine "Forschen und Entdecken", N° 3/2012, p. 16
Die alten coolen Ägypter, Newspaper interview, Der Standard, 18.07.2012
Hermann Junkers Verstrickung im Nationalsozialismus, Article, Deutschlandfunk, 28.07. 2011
Portrait as one of 30 women at Humboldt-Universität: Frauen in Bewegung – Frauen an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, ed. by U. Fuhrich-Grubert (pp. 52-55), Berlin 2011
Scientific advisor for the children’s book "Frag doch mal ... die Maus! – Ägypten", by Ulrike Hauswaldt, cbj HC Verlag, 2009 – 2010, published in 2011
Volunteer author of the popular scientific journal KEMET (Berlin, Germany), 1999 – 2007
Deputy Women’s Representative of LMU Munich, since 2019
Speaker of thematic platform ‟Natural Sciences and Archaeology“, Austrian Academy of Sciences, since 2018
Mentor in LMU Mentoring excellence programme of the Faculty for the Study of Culture, LMU Munich (currently 6 mentees), since 10/2017
Women’s Representative, Faculty for the Study of Culture, LMU Munich, since 04/2017
Member of programme committee of the Graduate School Distant Worlds, LMU Munich, 2017 – 2020
Board of directors, Department for Cultural Studies and Ancient Studies, Faculty 12, LMU Munich (since 2017 as women’s representative), 2015 – 2017
Member of the “Akademierat”, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 2014 – 2016
Member of the committee of the Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities III, Humboldt University Berlin, 04/2009 – 04/2011
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Archaeology, Iron Age Archaeology
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