Dr Iwona Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin

I am a bioarchaeologist with a background in human osteology, palaeopathology and funerary archaeology. I combine my research with teaching and an extensive fieldwork programme in the Nile Valley – in Egypt and Sudan. My expertise lies in the archaeological excavation and examination of mummified and skeletonised human remains, using established protocols and state-of-the-art techniques. I am particularly interested in exploring the relationship between people and their environments in the past through patterns of health and disease, subsistence and migration.

External Appointments and Membership

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), United Kingdom
• National Geographic Explorer
• Member of the British Association of Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology
• Member of the Paleopathology Association
• Member of the Sudan Archaeological Research Society

• Member of the International Society for Nubian Studies
• Member of the Egypt Exploration Society
• Member of the International Association of Egyptologists
• Honorary Research Associate, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester
• Honorary Curator of Human Remains, The Manchester Museum
• Reviewer for the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), Czech Science Foundation (GACR), and academic journals, including Nature, Archaeometry, Bioarchaeology International, International Journal of Paleopathology, Bioarchaeology of the Near East, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (PAM), Études at travaux, Public Humanities. 

Biography:
I hold academic degrees in Archaeology (MA, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan), Human Osteology and Funerary Archaeology (MSc, University of Sheffield) and Bioarchaeology (PhD, University of Manchester). Since 2002, I have been actively involved in archaeological research in the Nile Valley, working with international teams at high-profile burial sites in Egypt and Sudan.

Qualifications

PhD Bioarchaeology (Social Stratification and Physical Health in an Ancient Egyptian Population of Saqqara, Egypt)

MSc Human Osteology and Funerary Archaeology (Pathological Conditions in the New Kingdom Assemblage from Theban Area in Egypt)

MA Archaeology (Mummification as an Element of the Rites of Passage in the New Kingdom Period in Ancient Egypt)

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), UK

ILM Level 5 Award in Leadership in Management, awarded by the City and Guilds of London Institute