Delphine Driaux
Delphine Driaux
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- RG »Archaeology in Egypt and Sudan«
- +43 15 158 16104
- delphine.driaux(at)oeaw.ac.at
- Dominikanerbastei 16 | 1010 Vienna
Biographical sketch
After studying Art History and Archaeology at Université Rennes II Haute-Bretagne, PhD in Egyptology at Sorbonne University (2010). In 2014 awarded a Fernand Braudel-IFER Postdoctoral Fellowship at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge (UK), focusing on water management and social differentiation in the ancient city of Amarna (ca. 1347–1332 BC).
2016–2020 Postdoctoral University Research Assistant at the Institute of Egyptology, University of Vienna, including teaching activities in Egyptian archaeology at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Since 2021 Elise Richter Fellow (FWF) and Principal Investigator of the project «Representations and Reality of Poverty in Ancient Egypt», applying an interdisciplinary approach combining archaeological, textual and iconographic data.
Deputy Director of the University of Vienna Middle Egypt Project and Deputy Director of the KEAST ‘Karnak East mission’, in charge of the excavations. Extensive fieldwork experience in Egypt (Amarna, Deir el-Medina, Giza, Karnak, Sheikh Fadl among others) and Sudan within several international archaeological missions.
Research Projects
Research interests
- Egyptian settlement archaeology, architecture and material culture
- Social archaeology, with a specific focus on the poor (and poverty in ancient Egypt)
- Water management and technology in ancient Egypt
- Archives relating to early excavations in Egypt (19th to late 20th century)