Debbie Challis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3623927 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Debbie Challis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Debbie |
| FAMILY NAME | Challis |
| SIGNATURE | CHALLIS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Malet Place, UCL London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mixing, migration and the lessons of history
Sir W. M. Flinders Petrie's lifelong beliefs in race science and eugenics underlay his significant work as an archaeologist and Egyptologist. His detection of race in ancient art provided a basis for other scholars’ construction of racial typologies. His commitment to colonialist paradigms of excavation moved numerous objects, and human remains, from Egypt and Palestine to Britain. In the 1930s, in two letters to The Times and the Palestine Post,…
The Plunder of Maqdala
During the colonial period, museums did not just passively benefit from the plunder of human remains and culturally sacred items. When Britain sent a punitive military expedition to Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) in 1863, it was accompanied by Richard Holmes, a staff member of the British Museum, whose purchase of loot from the expeditionary force institutionalised the plunder of cultural heritage. His inclusion in the expeditionary force was carefully…
“Speculative Phase” of Archaeology
The archaeology of race
Creating typecasts
This paper reflects on the experience of curating the exhibition and events programme around Typecast: Flinders Petrie and Francis Galton at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London during 2011. Typecast explored ideas around race and archaeology, heredity and eugenics in the early twentieth century. After independent consultation, I decided to write about the exhibition from my own perspective and publicly identify my…
Small Space, Big Ideas
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL, displays material from the pre-dynastic period of Egypt, from all periods through the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms – as well as from Ptolemaic, Roman, Coptic and Islamic Egypt. This range illustrates the diversity of antiquity in the Eastern Mediterranean and down the Nile Valley into Africa. The refurbishment of the museum last summer has enabled us to use the main gallery much more for teaching (F…
Creating typecasts
This paper reflects on the experience of curating the exhibition and events programme around Typecast: Flinders Petrie and Francis Galton at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London during 2011. Typecast explored ideas around race and archaeology, heredity and eugenics in the early twentieth century. After independent consultation, I decided to write about the exhibition from my own perspective and publicly identify my…
Small Space, Big Ideas
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL, displays material from the pre-dynastic period of Egypt, from all periods through the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms – as well as from Ptolemaic, Roman, Coptic and Islamic Egypt. This range illustrates the diversity of antiquity in the Eastern Mediterranean and down the Nile Valley into Africa. The refurbishment of the museum last summer has enabled us to use the main gallery much more for teaching (F…
Creating typecasts
This paper reflects on the experience of curating the exhibition and events programme around Typecast: Flinders Petrie and Francis Galton at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London during 2011. Typecast explored ideas around race and archaeology, heredity and eugenics in the early twentieth century. After independent consultation, I decided to write about the exhibition from my own perspective and publicly identify my…
The archaeology of race
“Speculative Phase” of Archaeology
The Plunder of Maqdala
During the colonial period, museums did not just passively benefit from the plunder of human remains and culturally sacred items. When Britain sent a punitive military expedition to Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) in 1863, it was accompanied by Richard Holmes, a staff member of the British Museum, whose purchase of loot from the expeditionary force institutionalised the plunder of cultural heritage. His inclusion in the expeditionary force was carefully…
Mixing, migration and the lessons of history
Sir W. M. Flinders Petrie's lifelong beliefs in race science and eugenics underlay his significant work as an archaeologist and Egyptologist. His detection of race in ancient art provided a basis for other scholars’ construction of racial typologies. His commitment to colonialist paradigms of excavation moved numerous objects, and human remains, from Egypt and Palestine to Britain. In the 1930s, in two letters to The Times and the Palestine Post,…
Archaeology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Eugenics (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Museums and Cultural Heritage (2 works)