Grace Clements

Grace is a PhD candidate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, specializing in Egyptology. Her dissertation examines the unfinished tomb of Senenuka Keki (G 2041), an Old Kingdom mastaba in Giza’s Western Cemetery. Her broader research interests include the social history of the Old Kingdom elite, (digital) epigraphy, the iconography of children, and the intellectual history of Egyptology as a discipline. 

Grace earned both her BA in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and German and her MA in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Chicago. She has served as a teaching fellow for a range of courses at Harvard, including Anthro 1250: The Pyramids of Giza: Technology, Archaeology, History and General Education courses such as Deep History and Pyramid Schemes. She now facilitates the MEMS (Methodologies in Egyptology and Mesopotamian Studies) workshop and teaches the introductory Middle Egyptian sequence, Egyptian AA and Egyptian AB.