Andrea G. McDowell

Andrea Griet McDowell

McDowell worked as an Egyptology lecturer at the University of Leiden (1986-1989) and a junior research fellow at Somerville College, Oxford (1989-1992), before serving as an Assistant Professor of Egyptian Language and History at Johns Hopkins University. She specialized in Ancient Egyptian law. Hieratic Ostraca in the Hunterian Museum Glasgow (1993); and Village Life in Ancient Egypt (1999). In 2016, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Law. In 2022, her book on self-government in the California gold rush, We the Miners, was published by Harvard University Press.