Janet Helen Johnson (born December 24, 1944) is an American
Egyptologist
Egyptology (from ''Egypt'' and Greek , '' -logia''; ar, علم المصريات) is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious ...
and academic, specializing in
Egyptian language
The Egyptian language or Ancient Egyptian ( ) is a dead language, dead Afroasiatic languages, Afro-Asiatic language that was spoken in ancient Egypt. It is known today from a large Text corpus, corpus of surviving texts which were made acces ...
and the
Late Period of ancient Egypt
The Late Period of ancient Egypt refers to the last flowering of native Egyptian rulers after the Third Intermediate Period in the 26th Saite Dynasty founded by Psamtik I, but includes the time of Achaemenid Persian rule over Egypt after the ...
. Since 2003, she has been Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor of Egyptology at the
University of Chicago
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. She was Director of
Chicago's Oriental Institute from 1983 to 1989.
Johnson studied at the University of Chicago, graduating with a
Bachelor of Arts
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(BA) degree in 1967 and a
Doctor of Philosophy
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(PhD) degree in 1972.
She has spent almost all of her academic career at the University of Chicago: she was appointed
assistant professor
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Overview
This position is generally taken after earning a doctoral degree and general ...
in 1972, promoted to
associate professor
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in 1979 and to
professor
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in 1981.
She has also been a
research associate
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In some universities/research institutes, such as Harvard/Harvard Medical School/Harvard School of Public Health, the ...
at the
Field Museum of Natural History
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, holding the position from 1980 to 1984 and from 1994 to 1999.
Honors
Johnson was awarded a ''
Festschrift
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'' in 2018: it was titled "Essays for the Library of Seshat: Studies Presented to Janet H. Johnson on the Occasion of Her 70th Birthday" and was edited by
Robert K. Ritner
Robert Kriech Ritner (April 5, 1953 – July 25, 2021) was an American Egyptologist most recently at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
Life
Education
Ritner received his BA in psychology from Rice University in 1975, and ...
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Selected works
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References
External links
Chicago Demotic Dictionary
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1944 births
Living people
American Egyptologists
University of Chicago faculty
American archaeologists
American women archaeologists
University of Chicago alumni
People associated with the Field Museum of Natural History
American women historians
21st-century American women