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Prakash, Tara

Tara Prakash is a specialist of ancient Egyptian art and archaeology, and she teaches courses on ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, and Classical material culture. Her research focuses on issues of ethnicity and identity, foreign interactions, artistic agency, and the visualization of pain and emotion in ancient Egypt. Her recently published book is the first comprehensive study on the prisoner statues, a unique series of Egyptian statues that depict kneeling bound foreigners, and she is currently working on a book that investigates the emotions that were associated with ancient Egyptian kingship. Before coming to CofC, Dr. Prakash held postdoctoral fellowships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Johns Hopkins University.