Dr. Jeffrey Newman

Jeffrey received his Ph.D. in Egyptology from UCLA in 2025. His research focuses on ritual and religion in Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt, particularly regarding how elites utilized ritual and performance to communicate ideologies of power and how complex administrative institutions developed to facilitate this communication. He is also interested in trade and resource acquisition in early Egypt, specifically how metal and mineralogical materials were sourced, processed, and integrated into a broader system of elite ritual display. Jeffrey has worked with many archaeological excavations in Egypt, Ethiopia, and Israel. He is a member of the Yale Tell Edfu Project and the Hierakonpolis Expedition. In addition, he is a photographer and has worked at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures Museum (ISAC) at the University of Chicago and the UCLA Coffins Project. Currently, he is a research associate at UCLA's Pourdavoud Institute, where he is developing a digital epigraphic survey of the ancient Iranian world, and a lecturer in Art History at Loyola Marymount University.