Biography
Study of archaeology at the University of Belgrade/Serbia (Bachelor and Master, 2006–2011). Doctoral studies in Egyptology 2012–2016 with degree (2016) at the University of Münster. Since 2012, colleague at the excavation of the ÖAI in Tell el-Dab’a/Egypt. Since 2017 participant in the excavations of the ÖAI at Kom Ombo/Egypt. 2018–2019 researcher in the project »Beautiful Kush: Cosmetic substances and utensils in Egyptian New Kingdom Nubia« (DAAD P.R.I.M.E 2018). Since 2019 scientific colleague at the Cairo Branch of the ÖAI, for the project »Die Stadt Kom Ombo im 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr.«.
Philippika Prize Winner (Harrassowitz Verlag) for 2018.
Detailed biography
Detailed biography
BERUFLICHER WERDEGANG | |
seit 2019 | Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter des ÖAI in dem Projekt »Die Stadt Kom Ombo im 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr. « |
2018–2019 | Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Institut für Ägyptologie und Koptologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Projekt »Beautiful Kush: Cosmetic substances and utensils in New Kingdom Egyptian Nubia« (DAAD P.R.I.M.E 2018) |
2018 | Gastforscher, OREA-ÖAW |
2011 | Kuratorischer Assistent, Museum für afrikanische Kunst in Belgrad |
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AUSBILDUNG/AKADEMISCHE LAUFBAHN | |
2006–2011 | Studium der Archäologie an der philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Belgrad (Bachelor und Master) |
2012–2016 | Doktorstudium der Ägyptologie an der Universität Münster |
2016 | Promotion zum Dr. phil. an der Universität Münster, Dissertation »Body and Frames of War in New Kingdom Egypt: Violent treatments of enemies and prisoners « |
GUTACHTERTÄTIGKEIT | |
| Istraživanja. Journal of Historical Researches |
| Journal of Research on Women and Gender |
Études et Travaux | |
| Journal of Egyptian Archaeology |
AUSZEICHNUNGEN UND PREISE | |
2018 | Philippika-Preis des Harrassowitz Verlag |
2016 | Stiftungsfonds für Postgraduates der Ägyptologie, Wien |
MITGLIEDSCHAFT IN WISSENSCHAFTLICHEN EINRICHTUNGEN, BEIRÄTEN UND KOMMITEES | |
seit 2009 | Mitglied des European Association of Archaeologists |
2016–2019 | Co-chair, Archaeology and Gender in Europe, working party of the European Association of Archaeologists |
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WICHTIGSTE PROJEKTE | |
2018–2019 | Projekt »Beautiful Kush: Cosmetic substances and utensils in New Kingdom Egyptian Nubia« (DAAD P.R.I.M.E 2018) |
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LEHRE | |
2016–2017 | Archäologie Ägyptens I/II: Theorie in der Ägyptologie und Archäologie (Institut für Ägyptologie und Koptologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster) |
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Research areas
- War and violence in Ancient Egypt
- Second Intermediate Period and the New Kingdom
- Egypt and its relations with its neighbours in the 2nd millennium BC
- Settlement archaeology
- Gender archaeology
- Theory in archaeology
Current Projects
- Kom Ombo: Pottery of the 3rd mill. BC within the project »City and Hinterland of Kom Ombo« (FWF P 31791, under direction of I. Forstner-Müller)
Publications
Editor
Published Books
Published Books
- Matić, Uroš (2020) Ethnic Identities in the Land of the Pharaohs. In Reihe: Elements. Ancient Egypt in Context, hrsg. v. Miniaci, Gianluca; Garcia, Juan Carlos Moreno; Stevens, Anna; Cambridge: Cambriidge University Press.
- Matić, Uroš (2020) Violence and Gender in Ancient Egypt., hrsg. v. Geller, Pamela L.; London and New York: Routledge (in press).
- Matić, Uroš (2019) Body and Frames of War in New Kingdom Egypt: Violent treatments of enemies and prisoners. In Reihe: Philippika - Altertumskundliche Abhandlungen, Bd. 134, hrsg. v. Hengstl, Joachim; Irwin, Elizabeth; Jördens, Andrea; Mattern, Torsten; Rollinger, Robert et al. [..]; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
Doctoral thesis
Doctoral thesis
Published papers
Published papers
- Matić, Uroš (2020) Postcolonial perspective on the voyage to Egypt in the travelogue “Under the African Sun” by Milorad Rajčević. Istraživanja. Journal of Historial Researches, Bd. 31, S. 1-10.
- Franković, Filip; Matić, Uroš (2020) Looking like Griffins: Spiral-Shaped Fringes and Locks in the Coiffure of Aegean Emissaries represented in Egyptian 18th Dynasty Theban Tombs. Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, Bd. 28, S. 1-10.
- Forstner-Müller, Irene; Monem Said, Abdel; Rose, Pamela; Hassler, Astrid; Herbich, Tomasz et al. [..] (2020) First Report on the Town of Kom Ombo. Jahreshefte des österreichischen archäologischen Institutes in Wien, Bd. 88, S. 87-92.
- Matić, Uroš (2020) On Typhon, red men and the tomb of Osiris: Ancient interpretations and human sacrifice in Egypt. In: Mihajlović, Vladimir D.; Janković, Marko A. (Hrsg.), Pervading Empire. Relationality and Diversity in the Roman Provinces; Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, S. 15-28.
- Franković, Filip; Matić, Uroš (2020) The Sea Peoples and the Discourse of Balkanism in Archaeology of the Late Bronze Age. In: Gavranović, Mario; Heilmann, Daniela; Kapuran, Aleksandar; Verčík, Marek (Hrsg.), Spheres of Interaction. Contacts and Relationships between the Balkans and Adjacent Regions in the Late Bronze / Iron Age (13th–5th Centuries BCE). Proceedings of the Conference held between 15–17 September, 2017 Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade.: Marie Leidorf, S. 155-176.
- Matić, Uroš (2020) Review of Undine Stabrey, Archäologische Untersuchungen. Über Temporalität und Dinge. Histoire volume 98. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2017. Germania. Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 97, S. 253-255.
- Matić, Uroš (2019) “The Good God in the Form of Montu”: Pharaoh as the Warrior God on the Battlefield. Beyond the Human: Applying posthumanist thinking to archaeology. Archaeological Review from Cambridge, Bd. 34.2, S. 80-91.
- Matić, Uroš (2019) Review of Materiale Textkulturen: Konzepte-Materialien-Praktiken by T. Meier, M. R. Ott and R. Sauer (eds.). Berin/München/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2015. Germania: Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 96, S. 463-466.
- Matić, Uroš (2019) Begehrte Beute. Fremde Frauen als Raubgut im Alten Ägypten. Antike Welt, Bd. 4 (19), S. 15-18.
- Matić, Uroš (2019) Mirros in Ancient Egypt. Luxor Times, Bd. February 2019 (2), S. 1-3.
- Matić, Uroš (2019) Review of Staša Babić. Metaarheologija. Ogled o uslovima znanja o prošlosti (Beograd: Clio, 2018, 188pp., ISBN 978-86-7102-596-6). European Journal of Archaeology, Bd. 22 (2), S. 289-317.
- Matić, Uroš (2019) Review of Handel in Krisenzeiten Ägyptisch-mykenische Handelsbeziehungen in der Ramessidenzeit by Birgit Schiller Archaeopress Publishing, Oxford, 2018. Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, Bd. 24, S. 82-97.
- Matić, Uroš (2019) Are Aegeans depicted on a relief block 1985.328.13 from Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York?. Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, Bd. 22, S. 1-10.
- Matić, Uroš (2019) Review of Laurel Bestock's Violence and Power in Ancient Egypt: Image and Ideology before the New Kingdom. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. Archäologische Informationen, Bd. 42, S. 427-432.
- Matić, Uroš (2019) Memories under the African Sun. An Overview of Milorad Rajčević’s Journey to Egypt. In: Epštajn, Emila (Hrsg.), Under The Spotlight. Ancient Egyptian Collections in Museums in Serbia, Museum of African Art; Belgrade: Museum of African Art in Belgrade, S. 83-94.
- Matić, Uroš (2018) Traditionally Unharmed? Women and Children in NK Battle Scenes. In: Kahlbacher, Andrea; Priglinger, Elisa (Hrsg.), Tradition and Transformation in Ancient Egypt. Proceedings of the 5th International Congress for Young Egyptologists, Vienna, 15–19 September 2015; Wien: Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, S. 245-260.
- Matić, Uroš (2018) Out of touch: Egyptology and queer theory (or what this encounter should not be). In: Naujoks, Anne-Sophie; Stelling, Jendrik (Hrsg.), Von der Quelle zur Theorie Vom Verhältnis zwischen Objektivität und Subjektivität in den historischen Wissenschaften; Leiden: Mentis, S. 183-197.
- Matić, Uroš (2018) De-colonizing historiography and archaeology of ancient Egypt and Nubia Part 1. Scientific Racism. Journal of Egyptian History, Bd. 11 (1-2), S. 19-44.
- Matić, Uroš (2018) “Execration” of Nubians in Avaris? A Case of Mistaken Ethnic Identity and Hidden Archaeological Theory. Journal of Egyptian History, Bd. 11 (1-2), S. 87-112.
- Matić, Uroš (2018) Ägyptische Gottheiten und ars erotica: Ein Versuch der ontologischen Anthropologie erotischen Netzwerken im alten Ägypten. In: Verbovsek, Alexandra; Backes, Burckhard; Aschmoneit, Jan (Hrsg.), Funktion/en: Materielle Kultur – Sprache – Religion. Beiträge des siebten Berliner Arbeitskreises Junge Ägyptologie (BAJA 7) 2.12.–4.12.2016; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, S. 141-160.
- Matić, Uroš (2018) Review of: Peter M. Fischer and Teresa Bürge, “Sea Peoples” Up-to-Date. New Research on Transformations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 13th-11th Centuries BCE. Archäologische Informationen, Bd. 41, S. 418-421.
- Matić, Uroš (2018) Review of Eaton-Krauss, Marianne: The Unknown Tutankhamun. London and New York: Bloomsbury 2016. Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, Bd. 133 (2), S. 112-116.
- Matić, Uroš (2018) »They were like lions roaring upon the mountain-crests«: Soundscapes of war in New Kingdom Egypt. In: Incordino, Ilaria; Mainieri, Stefania; D’Itria, Elena; Diletta Pubblico, Maria; Rega, Francesco Michele et al. [..] (Hrsg.), Current Research in Egyptology 2017. Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Symposium: University of Naples, “L’Orientale” 3–6 May 2017; Oxford: Archaeopress, S. 103-115.
- Matić, Uroš (2018) The sap of life: Materiality and sex in the divine birth legend of Hatshepsut and Amenhotep III. In: Maynart, Érika; Velloza, Carolina; Lemos, Rennan (Hrsg.), Perspectives on materiality in ancient Egypt – agency, cultural reproduction and change; Oxford: Archaeopress, S. 35-54.
- Matić, Uroš (2018) Gender in Ancient Egypt: Norms, Ambiguities, and Sensualities. Near Eastern Archaeology, Bd. 79 (3), S. 174-183.
- Matić, Uroš (2017) Scorched Earth: Violence and landscape in New Kingdom Egyptian representations of war. Istraživanja-Journal of Historical Researches, Bd. 28, S. 7-28.
- Matić, Uroš (2017) Der ›dritte Raum‹, Hybridität und das Niltal: Das epistemologische Potenzial der postkolonialen Theorie in der Ägyptologie. In: Backes, Burkhard; Verbovsek, Alexandra (Hrsg.), Interkulturalität: Kontakt – Konflikt – Konzeptionalisierung. Beiträge des sechsten Berliner Arbeitskreis Junge Ägyptologie (BAJA 6) 13.11.–15.11.2015, S. 93-112.
- Matić, Uroš (2017) Review of Egipto y el Egeo a comienzos de la XVIII Dinastia. Una vision de sus relaciones, antecedents e influencia iconográfica by Inmaculada Vivas Sainz. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2013. Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, Bd. 14, S. 34-37.
- Matić, Uroš; Franković, Filip (2017) Out of Date, Out of Fashion: the Change of Dress of Aegean Figures in the Egyptian 18th Dynasty Theban Tombs in the light of Aegean Bronze Age Costume. Studi micenei ed egeo-anatolici N.S, Bd. 3, S. 105-130.
- Matić, Uroš (2017) »The best of the booty of His Majesty«: Evidence for foreign child labor in New Kingdom Egypt. In: Langer, Christian (Hrsg.), »The best of the booty of His Majesty«: Evidence for foreign child labor in New Kingdom Egypt; London: Golden House Publications, S. 53-63.
- Matić, Uroš (2017) »Her striking but cold beauty«: Gender and violence in depictions of Queen Nefertiti smiting the enemies. In: Matić, Uroš; Jensen, Bo (Hrsg.), Archaeologies of Gender and Violence; Oxford: Oxbow, S. 103-121.
- Jensen, Bo; Matić, Uroš (2017) Introduction: Why do we need archaeologies of gender and violence and why now?. In: Matić, Uroš; Jensen, Bo (Hrsg.), Archaeologies of Gender and Violence; Oxford: Oxbow Books, S. 1-23.
- Matić, Uroš (2017) Enemies hanged upside (head-) down. In: Tomorad, Mladen; Popielska-Grzybowska, Joanna (Hrsg.), gypt 2015: Perspectives of Research Proceedings of the Seventh European Conference of Egyptologists 2nd–7th June 2015, Zagreb, Croatia; Oxford: Archaeopress, S. 319-327.
- Matić, Uroš (2016) Review of Anna-Latifa Mourad, Rise of the Hyksos. Egypt and the Levant from the Middle Kingdom to the Early Second Intermediate Period. Archäologische Informationen, Bd. 39, S. 317-321.
- Matić, Uroš (2016) Hafengebiet von Avaris und Bestattungen der Zweiten Zwischenzeit des Areals R/IV, Tell el-Dab’a. In: Beck, Susanne; Backes, Burkhard; Liao, I-Ting; Simon, Henrike; Verbovsek, Alexandra (Hrsg.), Gebauter Raum: Architektur – Landschaft – Mensch. Beiträge des fünften Münchner Arbeitskreises Junge Ägyptologie (MAJA 5) 12.12.–14.12.2014, S. 139-150.
- Matić, Uroš (2016) (De)queering Hatshepsut. Binary bind in archaeology of Egypt and kingship beyond the corporeal. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, Bd. 23, S. 810-831.
- Matić, Uroš (2015) Review of Mädchen im Altertum / Girls in Antiquity. Frauen-Forschung-Archäologie 11 (Hrsg. Susanne Moraw, Anna Kieburg). Münster: Waxmann. Archäologische Informationen, Bd. 38, S. 513-515.
- Matić, Uroš (2015) Die ›römischen‹ Feinde in der meroitischen Kunst. Der Antike Sudan. Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin (25), S. 251-262.
- Matić, Uroš (2015) Are Dardanians attested in Egyptian sources?. Cahiers Caribéens d’Egyptologie, Bd. 19/20, S. 215-238.
- Matić, Uroš (2015) Eine Anmerkung zu Q-t-y und pLeiden I 343 + I 345 (Recto VI: 7-10). Göttinger Miszellen, Bd. 244, S. 57-66.
- Matić, Uroš (2015) Children on the move: ms.w wr.w in the New Kingdom procession scenes. In: Mynářová, Jana; Onderka, Pavel; Pavuk, Peter (Hrsg.), There and Back Again - the Crossroads II: Proceedings of an International Conference Held in Prague, September 15–18, 2014; Prague, S. 373-390.
- Matić, Uroš (2015) Was there ever a ›Minoan‹ princess on the Egyptian court?. In: Tomorad, Mladen (Hrsg.), A History of Research into Ancient Egyptian Culture Conducted in Southeast Europe; Oxford: Archaeopress, S. 145-156.
- Matić, Uroš (2015) Pyramids, dragons and whores: (Post)colonial myths and metafictions in »A Song of Ice and Fire« novels by G. R. R. Martin. Archaeology: Myths Within and Without. Archaeological Review from Cambridge, Bd. 30 (2), S. 172-184.
- Matić, Uroš (2015) Aegean emissaries in the tomb of Senenmut and their gift to the Egyptian king. Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, Bd. 7 (4), S. 38-52.
- Matić, Uroš (2014) Review of Spalinger, Anthony/Armstrong, Jeremy (Hg.): Rituals of Triumph in the Mediterranean World. Leiden/Boston: Brill 2013. 157 S. 8° ¼ Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 63. Hartbd. € 98,00. ISBN 978-90-04-25100-7. Orientalische Literaturzeitung, Bd. 109 (4-5), S. 283-285.
- Matić, Uroš (2014) ›Nubian‹ archers in Avaris: A study of culture-historical reasoning in archaeology of Egypt. Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology, Bd. 9 (3), S. 697-721.
- Matić, Uroš (2014) ›Minoans‹, kftjw and the ›islands in the middle of wAD wr‹ beyond ethnicity. Ägypten und Levante, Bd. 24, S. 277-294.
- Matić, Uroš (2014) Der Kopf einer Augustus-Statue aus Meroe. Sokar. Fachzeitschrift für Geschichte und Archäologie Altägyptens, Bd. 28, S. 68-71.
- Matić, Uroš (2014) Images of pharaonic past: On development and state of Egyptology in Serbia. In: Epštajn, Emilia (Hrsg.), Egypt remembered by Serbia; Belgrade: Museuem of African Art in Belgrade, S. 29-42.
- Matić, Uroš (2014) Review of Stefanović, Danijela: The Holders of Regular Military Titles in the Period of the Middle Kingdom: Dossiers. London: Golden House Publications 2006. VIII, 244 S. 8° ¼ Egyptology 4. Kart. £ 20.00. ISBN 0-9550256-6-4. Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, Bd. 109 (3), S. 186-187.
Reviews
Reviews
Internet Publications
Internet Publications
Presentations
Presentations
Auswahl der letzten 5 Jahre | |
25.06.2019 | Beauty beyond Borders: New Kingdom Egyptian Cosmetic Utensils outside of Egypt. Rethinking Borders: Interaction in the ancient Egyptian periphery (Neue Forschungen der Ägyptologie in NRW, Köln) |
12.06.2019 | On the razor’s edge – Detecting use patterns on metal finds (Documenting Material Culture-Study Day, OREA-ÖAW) |
29.01.2019 | Ancient Egyptian kohl tubes with royal family names (21st Sergeev’s Readings. The international conference of the researchers in antiquity, Faculty of History of the Lomonosov Moscow State University) |
15.01.2019 | To kill like a god and to kill like a man: Ontological turn and violent treatments of enemies and prisoners of war in New Kingdom Egypt (Violence, Punishment and Labour in Ancient Egypt and the Ancient Near East, Universität Bonn) |
14.07.2018 | Von kolonialen Epistemen, Denkkollektiven sowie der Archäologie und Geschichtsschreibung Nubiens im Neuen Reich (Ständige Ägyptologenkonferenz 2018, Münster) |