Prof. Dr. Julia Budka

Career history

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

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

• 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)
  
  

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

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

Education

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

• 2000
  Mphil in Egyptology, University of Vienna, Austria
  
  

• 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

Other activities and achievements/family

Commission work and institutional responsibilities

• 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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