Prof. Dr. Julia Budka

Education

• 2000
  Mphil in Egyptology, University of Vienna, Austria
  
  

• 2007
  Dr phil awarded in Egyptology, University of Vienna, Austria
  
  

Career history

• 2004 – 2012
  Scientific Researcher and Lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, Humboldt University Berlin, Department of Egyptology and Northeast African Archaeology
  
  

• 2011 – 2012
  Assistant Professor (Universitätsassistentin PostDOC) (as a temporary replacement of Assistant Professor Dr. Irmgard Hein) at the University of Vienna, Institute of Egyptology
  
  

• 2012
  Principal Investigator of FWF START project "Across ancient borders and cultures", hosted by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (transferred into the ERC project in Dec. 2012; optional sixth year of funding after end of ERC Grant)
  
  

• 2012 – 2017
  Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant project AcrossBorders, hosted by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ERC project for five years)
  
  

• Since 2015
  Professor for Egyptian archaeology and art history, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
  
  

• 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. http://www.kritischearchaeologie.de/repositorium/fka/2012_1_15_Budka.pdf

• 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.

• since 12/2012: AcrossBorders – ERC Starting Grant: research project focused on settlement archaeology in Egypt and Nubia, see http://acrossborders.oeaw.ac.at/

• since 10/2012: 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), see http://www.start-portal.at/die-starter/y615/index.html

• Member of the advisory board of the online, open-access journal "Forum kritische Archäologie", since 2011

• Member of the advisory board of the peer-reviewed journal "Egypt and the Levant" (Vienna), 2011 – 2012

• Member of the scientific board (Beirat) of the project Unidam (University of Vienna), 2011 – 2012

• Member of the advisory board for Humboldts studentische Konferenz der Altertumswissenschaften (Humboldt's Students Conference of Ancient Studies), 2009

• Interview for the daily Austrian newspaper "Der Standard" (20. 02. 2013) on research about Hermann Junker, see http://derstandard.at/1361240485214/Aegyptologe-Antisemit-weit-mehr-als-ein-Mitlaeufer

• Interview for APA Science about career and "Forscher im Rampenlicht" (24. 01. 2013), http://science.apa.at/dossier/Julia_Budka%3A_Niemand_sitzt_mehr_im_%20Elfenbeinturm/SCI_20130124_SCI45631817811103872

• Portrait for Austrian Science Fund "Frau in der Wissenschaft", FWF info 83.32, http://www.fwf.ac.at/download/frau-in-der-wissenschaft/budka.pdf , 2012

• Interview for the daily Austrian newspaper "Der Standard" (18. 07. 2012) on the occasion of winning the START prize 2012, see http://derstandard.at/1342139357730/Die-alten-coolen-Aegypter

• Broadcast about "Hermann Junker's involvement in the Nazi regime" for Deutschlandfunk, "Studiozeit: Aus Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften", 28th July 2011, see http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/studiozeit-ks/

• Portrait as 1 of 30 women of Humboldt University in the book: Frauen in Bewegung – Frauen an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin 2011, ed. by U. Fuhrich-Grubert (relevant pages: 52-55)

• Scientific advisor for the children's book Frag doch mal ... die Maus! – Ägypten, by Ulrike Hauswaldt, cbj HC Verlag, 2009 – 2010, published in 2011

• Volunteering referee for the German Academic Exchange Service, 2005 & 2006

• Volunteer author of the popular scientific journal KEMET (Berlin, Germany), 1999 – 2007

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