Stypendia 2007/2008

Holders of scholarships and special grants in Egypt and Poland

EGYPT

The Ministry of Education of the Republic of Poland grants four ten- and eight five-month scholarships for the academic year to candidates from the field of archaeology and history of the Near East, Egypt and Sudan: doctoral candidates researching their dissertation and senior-year students working on their MA thesis.

10-month scholarships:
2007/2008
Ms Katarzyna Gozdawa-Gołębiowska, student (Warsaw University, Institute of Archaeology)
subject: Book of the Dead Chapters 144-147 – onomastic and iconographic study (MA thesis)
Ms Eliza Jaroni, doctoral candidate (Archaeological Museum in Poznań)
subject: Faunal representations in the prehistoric rock art of northeastern Africa
Mr. Szymon Maślak, doctoral research (Warsaw University, Institute of Archaeology graduate)
subject: The manufacture and use of brick in Graeco-Roman, Byzantine and Early Islamic Egypt
Mr. Dawid Wieczorek, student (Warsaw University, Institute of Archaeology)
subject: Building dipinti from the Temple of Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahari
2008/2009
Ms Mariola Krasuska, doctoral candidate (Catholic University in Lublin)
subject: Autobiographical inscriptions of state dignitaries of the First Intermediate period and Middle Kingdom. Studies on the archaeological context, construction and value as sources for historical studies
Ms Agata Kozakow, MA (National Museum in Warsaw)
subject: Studies on ritual representations in Theban temples of the New Kingdom
Ms Katarzyna Lach, MA (Jagiellonian University, Institute of Archaeology graduate)
subject: Ancient Roman numismatics
Mr. Aliaksei Shukanau, doctoral candidate (Warsaw University, Institute of Archaeology)
subject: Funerary architecture of the Old Kingdom
5-month scholarships:
2007/2008
Mr. Piotr Czerkwiński, student (Warsaw University, Institute of Archaeology)
subject: Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
Mr. Mariusz Drzewiecki, student (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Institute of Archaeology)
subject: Archaeology of Nubia in the Christian period, especially fortifications of Banganarti
Ms Kalina Juszczyk, doctoral candidate (University of Technology in Kraków, Architectural History Institute)
subject: 3-D digital reconstruction of excavated architectural features for scientific purposes
Ms Fabiola Kolago, MA (University of Warsaw, Institute of Archaeology)
subject: Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
Ms Marta Mathia, MA (University of Warsaw, Institute of Archaeology)
subject: Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
Ms Joanna Michalska, MA (University of Warsaw, Institute of Archaeology)
subject: Urban sacral space: organization and functioning – selected examples of Byzantine towns in Egypt
Mr. Marcin Piechocki, student (University of Warsaw, Institute of Archaeology)
subject: Changes in Ancient Egyptian warfare from the Archaic Period to the end of the New Kingdom
Mr. Magdalena Woźniak, doctoral research (Paris IV-Sorbonne)
subject: Nubian royal attire
2008/2009
Ms Olga Białostocka, doctoral candidate (Research Center for Mediterranean Archaeology, Polish Academy of Sciences)
subject: The position of the king within chapels of the Royal Cult in Temples of a Million Years in the New Kingdom
Ms Aleksandra Brzozowska, MA, doctoral candidate (Wrocław University of Technology)
subject: Selected sea and river harbors of Ancient Egypt
Mr. Karol Juchniewicz, MA, doctoral research (Warsaw University, Institute of Archaeology)
subject: History and architecture of the Palmyra fortifications compared to other cities of the Roman East
Ms Anna Longa, MA, doctoral research (Jagiellonian University, Institute of Archaeology, Kraków)
subject: The cultural situation of Nubia from the 4th to the mid-3rd millennium BC
Ms Magdalena Pinker, student (Warsaw University, Oriental Studies Faculty)
subject: Architecture and art of Islam (specially medieval Alexandria in Egypt)
Ms Monika Różańska, MA (Jagiellonian University, Institute of Archaeology graduate)
subject: Research on the processes of urban transformation from Hellenistic to Islamic times
Ms Joanna Sulewska, student (Warsaw University, Institute of Archaeology)
subject: Monasteries and pilgrims in the Sinai and Negev in the 4th-6th centuries
Mr. Łukasz Wojnarowicz, MA (Warsaw University, Institute of Archaeology graduate)
subject: Research on Predynastic Egypt, trade issues

POLAND

Special PCMA documentation grants (12 months):
2007/2008
Ms Marzena Markowska, MA
subject: Bijan Island (Iraq), processing pottery documentation from old excavations (Supervisor: Prof. M. Gawlikowski)
Ms Urszula Wicenciak, MA
subject: Ceramic documentation project: Chhim and Jiyeh (Lebanon) and Pelusium (Egypt) (Supervisors: Dr. T. Waliszewski and Dr. K. Jakubiak)
Ms Dobrochna Zielińska, MA
subject: Dongola, digitizing and processing of earlier documentation from sites of the Curciform Church, Kom P and Throne Hall for final publication (Supervisor: Prof. W. Godlewski)
2008/2009
Ms Agnieszka Kowalska, MA
subject: Saqqara, documentation of material from the excavations (Supervisor: Prof. K. Myśliwiec)
Mr. Szymon Maślak, MA
subject: Naqlun, digitizing and processing of architectural documentation from the 1980s and 1990s for final publication (Supervisor: Prof. W. Godlewski)
Ms Joanna Michalska, student (Warsaw University, MISH)
subject: Nea Paphos, processing old excavation documentation for the archives (Supervisor: Dr. H. Meyza)