Solange Ashby Bumbaugh received her PhD in Egyptology/Nubiology from the University of Chicago and has taught at American University and the University of Chicago as an adjunct professor and teaching assistant. She has received several grants and fellowships for her research excavating Meroitic royal tombs in Sudan and conducting dissertation research in Egypt. Her publications and lectures focus on Meroitic worship of Egyptian gods like Isis and Osiris in Sudan and at the temple of Philae in Egypt.

1. Solange Ashby Bumbaugh
2907 Ellicott Street NW
Washington, DC 20008
(310) 848-9832
solange@uchicago.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Egyptology/Nubiology
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Bachelor of Arts in Intercultural Studies, Spanish language
Simon’s Rock College, Great Barrington, MA
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Fall 2014- Adjunct Professor, American University. “Religious Heritage of the West”
present surveys the religions of Western Civilization: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as well
as their Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Greek and Roman religious antecedents.
Winter 2008 Teaching Assistant, University of Chicago, “Middle Egyptian Texts”
Autumn 2007 Teaching Assistant, University of Chicago, “Middle Egyptian Texts”
Held office hours to advise and assist students, graded exams, led class during the
professor’s absence.
2001 Literacy Instructor, Next Step Learning Center, Oakland, CA
Taught reading skills to adults, one-on-one.
1995 Literacy Instructor, Second Start Literacy, Oakland, CA
Taught literacy skills to adults using a standardized curriculum provided by the
organization.
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
University of Pennsylvania 2013-2014
Fellowship for Excellence through Diversity
Awarded to three doctoral candidates selected from among 2,000 applicants.
Helen Rich Archaeological Grant Spring 2014
Excavated Meroitic royal tomb. El-Kurru, Sudan.
Division of the Humanities Travel Grant January 2011
Conducted doctoral research in southern Egypt at the temple of Philae.
Overseas Fellowship Grant January 2011
Dissertation Research in Egypt
DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austasch Dienst) Summer 2010
Eight weeks of intensive language study funded by the German
government to assist with doctoral research in German.
Robert Brandt Cross Scholarship Fund 2008-2015
Advanced Residency support for outstanding Egyptology graduate students.
Special Trustees’ Scholarship 2003-2008
Received full financial support for five years of doctoral study for
exceptional minority students.
Publications
“Meroitic Worship of Isis at Philae” Egypt in its African Context: Proceedings of the conference held
at The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, Manchester, England, 2-4 October, 2009. Ed.
Karen Exell. BAR International Series 2204. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2011.

2. Solange Ashby Bumbaugh
solange@uchicago.edu
Lectures
March 2016 “The Goddess Isis and the Kingdom of Meroe: The Last Flowering of Egyptian
Religion” at the National Counsel for Black Studies (NCBS) Conference,
University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC
September 2014 “Milk Libations for Osiris: Meroitic Piety at Philae” at the Nubian Studies
Conference, Neuchatel, Switzerland
March 2014 “Isis and Meroe: The Last Flowering of Egyptian Religion” at the Association for
the Study of Classical African Civilizations (ASCAC) Conference, Essex County
College, Newark, NJ
April 2012 The Last Priests at Philae-Language Choice in Adoration Graffiti as an Indication
of Ethnicity at the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) Conference,
Providence, RI
October 2011 “Africa and the End of Isis” at the Department for African Studies, Indiana
University, Bloomington, IL
March 2011 “Milk Libations for Osiris: Meroitic Piety at Philae” at the American Research
Center in Egypt (ARCE) Conference, Chicago, IL
October 2009 “Meroitic Piety at Philae” at the Egypt in its African Context Conference,
Manchester, England
Languages
Fluent in Spanish
German Reading Exam: Received grade of “High Pass” Winter 2004
French Reading Exam: Received a grade of “High Pass” Spring 2005