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| Name: Dr Isabelle Vella Gregory Honorary Title: Honorary Research Fellow Email: TBC IoA staff nominator’s name and email address: Patrick Quinn patrick.quinn@ucl.ac.uk |
- Profile
IoA involvement:
Isabelle is Deputy Director of the UCL – UoK-NCAM Expedition to the Southern Gezira (Sudan): Mobility, identity and interaction of pastoral peoples with the Nile Valley expedition. It is a partnership between the UCL Institute of Archaeology, the Department of Archaeology at the University of Khartoum and the National Corporation of Antiquities & Museums (Sudan). The project works at the site of Jebel Moya, originally excavated by the founder of the Wellcome Trust. On the field, Isabelle is in charge of welfare and training and community outreach. She works with Patrick Quinn on ceramics and is currently editing the excavation monograph. Isabelle also researches the archives curated at the Wellcome Collection and has a special interest in colonial histories and decoloniality. Isabelle also works on prehistoric material from her native Malta. She is also a Tutor in Archaeology at the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge.
- Publications
Research Publications
2024. Jebel Moya (Site 100). In Solange Ashby and Willeke Wendrich (eds.), UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, Los Angeles. ISSN 2693-7425.
2023. Valancius, M., Quinn, P. Brass, M., Vella Gregory, I. Adam, A., Dunne, J. & Evershed, R. Production and use of ceramics in the first millennium BC: Jebel Moya, Sudan. African Archaeological Review 41: 97-118.
2023. Vella Gregory, I., Brass., M., Adam, A., Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin, I., MacDonald, K., Abdelwahabe, S., Fedlelmula, A., Hajjaj, E., Fuller, D.Q., den Hollander, A., Khalid, M., Ali, O., Ibrahim, M. & Ibrahim, H. The prehistory of Jebel Moya: Results from the first three seasons of excavations. Libyan Studies 54: 55-75
2021. Re-Examining Jebel Moya Figurines: New Directions for Figurine Studies in Sudan’. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 56 (2): 193–218.
2020. Ordering the Land beyond the Sixth Cataract: Imperial Policy, Archaeology and the Role of Henry Wellcome. Libyan Studies 51: 43–60.
