Julie Desjardins
PhD Student
Julie Desjardins received her master’s degree in history from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) in 2022 with the dissertation entitled ‘La charpenterie à Deir el-Medina: une expertise incontournable?’. She obtained a doctoral scholarship from the Fonds de Recherche Société et Culture du Québec (2023) and the Bourse d’Études Supérieures du Canada (2024). Since 2017, she is a research assistant in epigraphy and in virtual reconstitution for The Karnak Great Hypostyle Hall Project directed by Peter Brand (University of Memphis) and Jean Revez (UQAM). Since 2018, she has worked as a teaching assistant in several classes in the history department of UQAM and was coordinator for the Jean-Marie Fecteau student symposium at Montreal (2023). She is a member of the review committee for the student journal Histoire, Idées et Sociétés (since 2022), secretary for the Association des Études du Proche-Orient Ancien (since 2019) and is involved in various student committees.
Her research interests focus mainly on wood, wood imitation in Egyptian art, wood furniture and cultural memory as theorized by Jan Assmann.