Join us Thursday, September 25 at 9:30am for the first lecture in our 2025-2026 lecture series, “Disability in the Ancient Middle East and Mediterranean”
Dr. Elizabeth Minor and Dr. Lissette Jiménez will present “Accessing Ancient Egypt: Inclusive Strategies for Museum Learning with Collections and Digital Tools.”
This lecture series is co-hosted by Pacific School of Religion and the Archaeological Research Facility – Berkeley.
Dr. Lissette Jiménez is Associate Professor of Museum Studies at San Francisco State University, where she also serves as Director and Faculty Curator of the Ancient Mediterranean at the Global Museum. She is an archaeologist and museum professional whose research focuses on ancient Egypt, object biographies, and inclusive museum pedagogy. She earned her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and is co-editor of Teaching Ancient Egypt in Museums: Pedagogies in Practice (Routledge, 2024), which explores new object-based approaches to teaching and interpreting Egypt’s cultural heritage in museums.
Dr. Jiménez has worked extensively with anthropological collections and on archaeological excavations. She has served as Associate Curator and Interim Director at the Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology in Berkeley and has worked on excavations at El-Hibeh and Amheida in Egypt, as well as at Nemea in Greece. In Egypt, she directed the Abydos Archives Conservation Field School, a collaboration with the Ministry of Antiquities that provided hands-on conservation training to Egyptian museum professionals.
Her current research examines the history of San Francisco State’s ancient Egyptian collection, interpreting its objects and mummified individuals within an anti-colonial framework.