About the Authors

Percy Pike - Egyptomania

Percy on the Macquarie University grounds,
where they intend to return for postgraduate
research in postcolonial Australian history.

Percy is a recent graduate of Macquarie University, where they majored in Modern History. During their studies with the Department of History and Archaeology, they developed an interest in the construction of the Australian identity in the shadow of settler-colonialism, and how this identity functions in contemporary society. They are a university worker and unionist, advocating for better working and learning conditions across the education sector.

Amelia Berthold - Why the Illiad is still Epic 

Amelia is in her final year of a Bachelor of Archaeology, Majoring in Greece, Rome to Late Antiquity. She loves reading and spends her free time writing stories about love, history and her experience of being on the autism spectrum and having learning disabilities. Next year Amelia is starting a Masters of Archaeological and Evolutionary Science at the Australian National University, and plans to continue her writing, with the dream of eventually becoming a published author.

Alia Alidenes - Facts about Fakes, Forgeries and Forms

Alia Alidenes is a final year Bachelor of Archaeology student majoring in Modern history. Her academic interests are the consumption of history, luxury commodities in world history from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern period, as well as textile history. Her personal interests include fibre arts and watching sumo. After establishing a career as a certified sake expert, she hopes to apply her love for communicating specialist knowledge to the museum sector next and work with collections.

Kerri-Ann Meakins - The Curious Case of the Gosford Glyphs

Kerri-Ann Meakins is currently completing the third year of her Bachelor of Archaeology. Once this is completed, she hopes to gain her master's degree and eventually a doctorate in the field of Egyptology. Although her interest primarily lies in the New Kingdom, she hopes to continue learning and studying as much as possible so that she will eventually be able to collaborate with various scholars in Egyptian history around the world.

Cody Luthra - Read Like an Egyptian

Cody Luthra is a final-year student of archaeology at Macquarie University, specialising in Egyptology and the Near East. He has broad experience in museum services currently working as a Visitor Services Officer at the Powerhouse Museum in Ultimo, and volunteering at museums across Sydney including the Australian National Maritime Museum, Museum of Sydney, and the Macquarie University History Museum. He has a passion for material culture and the stories they tell, and the importance of institutions such as museums that allow us to engage with the past in practical and meaningful ways. In his spare time, Cody trains kendo at the University of Technology Sydney and reads Haruki Murakami’s latest works.

Emeline Clarkson - An interview with Susan Lupack, expert in the mysterious Linear B script

Emeline is completing a Bachelor of Archaeology majoring in Anthropology. She has always been interested in human history and during her time at Macquarie University has developed a strong interest in Indigenous cultures and in the treatment of disabilities in the ancient and modern worlds. Emeline is excited to explore the possibilities of where her degree can take her: she hopes to begin a master's degree in Archaeology and/or Anthropology, work on an excavation in Pompeii or Crete, or work in a museum.

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