Alum Kate Sheppard Featured on Historians at the Movies Podcast

Dr. Kathleen Sheppard ('10), professor of history at Missouri University of Science and Technology, was recently on the Historians at the Movies podcast to talk about her latest book, Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age. She discusses how she became a historian of egyptology, her research on women in Egyptology at the turn of the 20th century, and her love of the movie The Mummy (1999). 

"In Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age, Kathleen Sheppard brings the untold stories of these women back into this narrative. Sheppard begins with some of the earliest European women who ventured to Egypt as travelers: Amelia Edwards, Jenny Lane, and Marianne Brocklehurst. Their travelogues, diaries and maps chronicled a new world for the curious. In the vast desert, Maggie Benson, the first woman granted permission to excavate in Egypt, met Nettie Gourlay, the woman who became her lifelong companion. They battled issues of oppression and exclusion and, ultimately, are credited with excavating the Temple of Mut." Read more at Macmillan.