Professor John Baines FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2011
- Subjects
- Archaeology
- Sections
- Archaeology
Summary
John Baines was formerly Professor of Egyptology in the University of Oxford. He taught formerly at the University of Durham. He has held visiting appointments, in departments of Egyptology, anthropology, art history and archaeology, and Near Eastern Studies, at universities in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. Throughout his career he has sought to integrate the study of ancient Egypt into the wider discourse of the humanities and social sciences. He is a member of the American Philosophical Society and an honorary member of the American Oriental Society.
Current post
Professor of Egyptology Emeritus, University of Oxford; MZAW Gastprofessor, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich
Past appointments
Princeton University Old Dominion Fellow
2014 - 2014
Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford Professor of Egyptology
1976 - 2013
Publications
The disappearance of writing systems
Edited by John Baines, John Bennet and Stephen Houston - Published in 2008
Visual and written culture in ancient Egypt
John Baines - Published in 2007 by Oxford University Press
Cultural atlas of ancient Egypt
John Baines and Jaromir Malek - Published in 2000
Principles of Egyptian art
Heinrich Schäfer, translated and edited by John Baines - Published in 1974 by Griffith Institute Publications
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