University of Chicago
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Email:
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Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Telephone: 513-623-9447 scalffd@uchicago.edu
Education
University of Chicago
2004-present Ph.D. Candidate Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Dissertation: “Passports to Eternity: Demotic Formulaic Funerary Texts from Roman
Egypt”
Committee: Robert Ritner, Janet Johnson, Peter Dorman
2002-2004 Master of Arts in Egyptology
Thesis: “The Grammar of Self-Presentation: A Philological Analysis of Nominal and
Adverbial Predication in Egyptian Biographical Texts”
Committee: Robert Ritner, Janet Johnson
Miami University, Oxford Ohio
2000-2002 Bachelor of Arts in History, with Honors
Thesis: “A Garrison of Yahweh: The Religion of the Jewish Force at Elephantine”
Committee: Edwin Yamauchi, Steven Tuck
Employment
2005-Present Demotic Dictionary Project (Janet Johnson, Editor-in-Chief)
Editorial Assistant – assist in the collection, preparation, scanning and editing of information from primary and secondary sources for inclusion in the Chicago Demotic
Dictionary
2002-Present Oriental Institute Research Archives, Chicago, Illinois
Research Assistant – creation of digital catalogue of the research archives collection and databases of archival holdings
2002-2003 Middle Egyptian Text Editions for Online Research
Editorial Assistant – edit online program for the study of Middle Egyptian: proofreading
Egyptian hieroglyphs for accurate transcription, transliteration and translation, editing bibliography, ensuring functionality of all online links, creating detailed reports describing errors and possible improvements
Teaching Experience
2006 Substitute Instructor for Dr. Robert K. Ritner, March 27-April 10
University of Chicago, 30121 Demotic Texts
2006 Instructor, Adult Education Class, Oriental Institute Museum
“Affairs and Scandals in Ancient Egypt”

2004-2005 Teaching Assistant, University of Chicago
10102 Introduction to Middle Egyptian
Language Courses
10101 Introduction to Middle Egyptian 1 10102 Introduction to Middle Egyptian 2
10103 Middle Egyptian Texts 1
20102 Introduction to Hieratic
20210 Introduction to Late Egyptian
30120 Introduction to Demotic
10201 Introduction to Coptic
10203 Coptic Texts 2
30446 Ptolemaic Hieroglyphs
30447 Ptolemaic and Roman Hieratic
20101 Middle Egyptian Texts 2
20110 Introduction to Old Egyptian
20211 Late Egyptian Texts
30121 Demotic Texts
10202 Coptic Texts 1
40480 Egyptian Religious Texts
30414 Hekanakht Papers
45500 Coptic Dialects
10101 Elementary Akkadian 1
10103 Elementary Akkadian 3
20341 Old Babylonian Letters
10101 Elementary Arabic 1
10103 Elementary Arabic 3
10102 Accelerated Attic Greek 2
10102 Elementary Akkadian 2
20307 Akkadian Literary Texts
30348 Middle Assyrian Texts
10102 Elementary Arabic 2
10101 Accelerated Attic Greek 1
10103 Accelerated Attic Greek 3
Academic Honors and Awards
2007-2008
2006
Nicholson Fellowship
François Furet Travel Grant
2003-2006 University Fellowship, University of Chicago
2004-2005 Robert Brandt Cross Scholarship (Demotic Congress, Paris, France 2005
Attendance)
2004-2005 Doolittle-Harrison Fellowship (ARCE 2005 Presentation)
2004-2005 Humanities Division Travel Funds (ARCE 2005 Presentation)
2003-2004 Robert Brandt Cross Scholarship (ARCE 2004 Attendance)
2002 Distinguished Student Achievement Award , Miami University
2002
1999
Summa Cum Laude Graduation Honors, Miami University
Phi Theta Kappa National Honor Society
Conferences and Presentations
2006 “King Tut: His Discovery, His Era, His Treasures,” September 9 Adler
Planetarium , Chicago, Illinois
2006 “The Mysteries of King Tut,” August 28, Mon Ami Gabi , Oak Brook, Illinois
2006 “King Tut: His Discovery, His Era, His Treasures,” August 5 Adler Planetarium ,
Chicago, Illinois
2006 “King Tut: His Discovery, His Era, His Treasures,” July 29 Adler Planetarium ,
Chicago, Illinois
2005 “Statements of Identification and the m of Predication,” American Research
Center in Egypt , Annual Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Memberships

American Research Center in Egypt
American Society of Papyrologists
Egyptian Exploration Society
Oriental Institute Museum, Chicago
Publications
2008 Review of: M. Chaveau. Cleopatra Beyond the Myth and P. Jones, Cleopatra: A
Sourcebook . In Journal of Near Eastern Studies
Forthcoming “Statements of Identity and the m of Predication”
Forthcoming “The Magical Bricks of the Oriental Institute Museum”