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Benson and Pamela Harer Fellow in Egyptology

The cast of Disney’s “Under Wraps 2.” From left: Sobek, Buzzy, Gilbert, Amy, Marshall, Harold and Rose.
September 23, 2022

Kate Liszka, the Benson and Pamela Harer Fellow in Egyptology and associate professor of history, served as the Egyptological consultant for the film that will premiere on Sunday, Sept. 25, on the Disney Channel, and Sept. 30 on Disney+.

Pfau Library, Faculty in the News
June 9, 2022

Brian Levin (criminal justice), Kate Liszka (history), Ezekiel Bonillas (entrepreneurship) and Lacey Kendall (communication studies) were included in recent news coverage.

Kate Liszka
June 7, 2022

Kate Liszka was awarded the grant from the Antiquities Endowment Fund of the American Research Center in Egypt for conservation, restoration and 3D recording of more than a dozen ancient rock inscriptions that could provide new insights into the history of ancient Egypt.

 

Meredith Brand
March 14, 2022

Brand is the fourth Egyptologist to visit and teach at CSUSB since the start of the visiting scholar program in 2018. In addition to teaching in the departments of history and anthropology, she will present a keynote talk, “Making Millions of Pots: How the Cult in Ancient Egypt Met Its Demand for Pottery,” at RAFFMA on April 5.

Faculty in the News, Visual Arts sculpture
October 25, 2021

Todd Johnson (music), Diane Vines (nursing), Kate Liszka (history), David Yaghoubian (history), Breena Coates (management) and Vipin Gupta (management) were included in recent news coverage.

Faculty in the News, Pfau Library
October 18, 2021

Kate Liszka (history) served as the Egyptology consultant of the Disney movie, "Under Wraps," which premiered on the Disney Channel on Oct. 1 and is currently streaming on Disney+.

 from left, Sophia Hammons as Amy, Phil Wright as Harold the mummy, Malichi Barton as Marshall and Christian J. Simon as Gilbert.
October 15, 2021

Kate Liszka, the Benson and Pamela Harer Fellow in Egyptology and associate professor of history, served as the Egyptological consultant for the film, a remake of Disney’s 1997 original, now showing on the Disney Channel and streaming on Disney+.

Erika Kelley
January 29, 2021

Erika Kelley, junior and public history major, has been interning at the Digital Giza Project through Harvard University during the 2020-21 academic year. Kelley has been an integral member of the Giza Project team.

October 8, 2019

Tara Prakash, assistant professor of ancient art at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, is the W. Benson Harer Egyptology Scholar in Residence for fall.