Melinda Hartwig, PhD

Dr. Melinda Hartwig is an award-winning author and editor of The Tomb Chapel of Menna (AUC Press) now in its second printing, and A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art (Wiley-Blackwell), which received a 2016 PROSE Award for Single Volume Reference in the Humanities & Social Sciences. Her most recent project, The Real Ancient Egypt now streaming now on Wondrium, received the 2023 Telly Bronze Award under "History - Non-Broadcast." For The Great Courses, she did a 24-episode series and coursebook entitled The Great Tours: A Guided Tour of Ancient Egypt, which builds on her 40+ years of leading tours and documentation projects in Egypt.

Melinda is the Curator of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University. She is past President of the American Research Center in Egypt Board of Governors. She has taught art history at Emory University and  Georgia State University, at the rank of professor.  When not traveling in Egypt, you can find her writing with her two rescue dogs, Bo and Snooper, sleeping next to her office chair.