Rune Rasmus Olsen

Current research

My PhD project focused the socioeconomic aspect of private tomb construction in New Kingdom Egypt (ca. 1550-1069 BCE), the goal of which was to illuminate the value and significance that the ancient Egyptians themselves put on the tombs, but also to introduce a new angle on the field of economy, particularly the ancient economy. This resulted in a construction scale baseline that can be used in assessing the value and time spent building a rock-cut tomb where no textual evidence for its construction exists. The thesis also established a significant link between the size of the tomb and the social position of the tomb owner. My current research partly seeks to clarify this link in more detail by investigating other periods of Egyptian history.

CV

Teaching

2014 - External lecturer, BA courses: (1) Introduction to Ancient Egypt – History and Society, (2) Egyptian History and Literature (Society 2), (3) ToRS Fællesfag – Academic Writing, Institute for Cross Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen.

2013 - External lecturer, MA course: Berlin Copenhagen Seminar (International Presentation), Institute for Cross Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen.

2013 - External lecturer, BA courses: (1) Egyptian History and Literature (Society 1/2), (2) Introduction to Ancient Egypt – History and Society, Institute for Cross Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen.

2011 - External lecturer, BA courses: (1) Ancient Egyptian Religion, (2) Ancient Egyptian History, Open University, Institute for Cross Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen.

Academic work

2012 - Conference co-organizer: Cultural Encounters in Near Eastern History – An Interdisciplinary Conference, CIF Conference IV, May 10-12.

2011 - Conference co-organizer: Literature Identity Formation – An Interdisciplinary Symposium, CIF Conference III, May 20-21.

2010-2013 - Webmaster at the Materiality in Islam Research Initiative (MIRI), Institute for Cross Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen.

2010 - Conference co-organizer: Problems of Canonicity and Identity Formation in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, CIF Conference II, May 26-28.

2010-2013 - Scientific assistant at the Center for Canon and Identity Formation (CIF), Institute for Cross Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen.

Education

2007 - Cand. mag. in Egyptology, Institute for Cross Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. MA-thesis: Egyptens medjayledere og deres funktioner. En undersøgelse af titlen Hry MD3yw med henblik på redegørelse for titelbærernes funktioner og ansvarsområder.
_{A study based on published and unpublished hieratic documents that were contextualised in the society of New Kingdom Egypt.}

2004 - Bachelor in Egyptology, Institute for Cross Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen.