“No One Will Do This For Us” Intellectuals of African Descent and the Nile Valley in the Early 20th Century

The disciplinary history of Egyptology, as it is currently written, incorrectly excludes the voices of intellectuals of African descent. In the early 20th century, when Egyptology was first taught in US universities, Black scholars and writers and white Egyptologists who held university posts engaged with one another over matters related to Egypt, ancient and modern. These conversations must be recognized as integral to the formation of the discipline in the United States and to its future. Vanessa Davies is the founding organizer of the Nile Valley Collective, which promotes the Africanity of the ancient NileValley cultures. She is writing a book on the contributions of scholars of African descent in the US to the disciplinary histories of Egyptology and Nubiology. She is the author of Peace in Ancient Egypt, the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Palaeography, and the editor of The Phoebe A. Hearst Expedition to Naga ed-Deir, Cemeteries N 2000 and N2500.

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