Beatriz Noria-Serrano

Beatriz Noria-Serrano is a research fellow at the University of Pisa working with Project PIPE (Profiling the Identity of the Producers in ancient Egypt and Nubia through the “aura” of clay figurines). Beatriz holds an undergraduate degree in History from the University of Sevilla and a masters degree in Egyptology from the University of Liverpool. She recently finished her PhD, funded by the Government of Spain, at the University of Alcalá in Madrid. Her thesis focused on the social and cultural aspects of motherhood during the Middle Kingdom Egypt. Her works combines approaches and methodologies from Egyptology, Linguistics, and Anthropology to better understand of the role of mothers in society and in the religious mindset of ancient Egyptians. She is a member of the missions The Middle Kingdom Theban Project and the Djehuty Project, which excavate in the necropoleis of Deir el-Bahari and Dra Abu el-Naga (Luxor). Since 2019, she has been a teaching assistant at the University Alcalá for courses on ancient Egyptian history, religion, and gender studies.