Jordan Galczynski

Instructional Technology Manager
Office: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/865893942

Jordan manages the Instructional Technology Group, overseeing lab and learning spaces, a team of graduate students serving as Research and Instructional Technology Consultants (RITC), and internal faculty-led Digital Humanities projects (DH Accelerator).

Jordan received her Ph.D. from UCLA in Egyptology. Her research focuses on how marginalized labor, the New Kingdom textile industry, and the relationship between power and identity. She is also interested in the historiography of the study of Egypt, women in the ancient world, and digital applications in ancient studies. Before this, Jordan received her B.A. from Temple University in Greek and Roman Classics and Anthropology and her M.A. from the University of Chicago in Middle Eastern Studies.

She also co-hosts a popular ancient history podcast, “Afterlives of Ancient Egypt,” and is a writer for the associated blog Ancient Now. 

Publications

  • “Fashioning SenseScapes through Ancient Egyptian Dress.” In Textiles in Motion. Dress for Dance in the
    Ancient World, Oxbow Books, 119-139. 2023.*
  • “Orientalizing the Ancient Egyptian Woman” In Ancient Egyptian Society: Challenging Assumptions,
    Exploring Approaches, 152-162. Routledge, 2022.*
  • “Musicians and Dancers in Ancient Egypt” in Boyett, Colleen, H. Michael Tarver, and Mildred Diane
    Gleason, editors. Daily Life of Women: An Encyclopedia from Ancient Times to the Present. 4
    Volumes. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO – Greenwood Imprint, 2020.
  • “Weavers in Ancient Egypt” in Boyett, Colleen, H. Michael Tarver, and Mildred Diane Gleason,
    editors. Daily Life of Women: An Encyclopedia from Ancient Times to the Present. 4 Volumes.
    Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO – Greenwood Imprint, 2020.

Presentations

  • Nov 2023 “Textile Producers at the Intersection of Power Relations in New Kingdom Egypt,” ASOR Annual Conference, Chicago, IL
  • Jun 2023 “Genre Writing and Thesis Development using ChatGPT,” Creating Connections 6th Annual Symposium on Writing Pedagogy, UCLA Writing Programs, UCLA
  • Nov 2022 “Orientalizing the Ancient Egyptian Woman,” ASOR Annual Conference, Boston, MA
  • Nov 2021 “Concepts of Masculinity in New Kingdom Elite Tombs,” ASOR Annual Conference, Chicago, IL
  • Nov 2019 “Textiles in Transit: Emergent Exchange Networks and Evolving Provincial Fashion in Middle Egypt, c. 2000-1850 BCE,” ASOR Annual Conference, San Diego, CA *