Description: The Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to bring together individuals interested in Coptic studies and to promote the dissemination of scholarly information on Coptic Studies through the organization of meetings and conferences and through the preparation of scholarly works for publication
Brief description: Richard Jasnow is professor of Egyptology at Johns Hopkins University. He has authored A Late Period Hieratic Wisdom Text (P. Brooklyn 47.218.135) (The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1992) and The Ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth (Harrassowitz, 2005; with Karl-Theodor Zauzich). Jasnow's research focuses on Demotic texts of the Graeco-Roman period. Kathlyn M. Cooney is associate professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at UCLA. She is author of The Cost of Death: The Social and Economic Value of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Art in the Ramesside Period (Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 2007) and The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt (Crown 2014). Her research focuses on craft specialization, ancient economics, funerary material culture, and social crisis.