Alicia Cunningham-Bryant, Ph.D
She/Her/Hers
FULL-TIME FacultyAssociate Professor, Director of Fellowship Advising
Honors
Phone: 801.832.2467
Email: acb@westminsteru.edu
Office Location: Gore School of Business 115
Degrees:
Ph.D. Yale University
M.P. Yale University
B.A. University of California San Diego
About
An award-winning teacher, Alicia holds the Kim T. Adamson Chair in the Honors College
and directs the campus-wide Office of Fellowship Advising. Alicia has extensive experience
as an archivist and curator at museums in Philadelphia and New Haven, Connecticut;
and she has done archaeological field work in Egypt and Jordan. Her research interests
are wide ranging and include public history, museum curation, digital humanities,
Africa, Egyptology, Old World archaeology, ancient religions, The Hellenistic World,
and art history, among other topics. Alicia earned a BA at University of California,
San Diego (double majoring in history and archeology) and her PhD in near eastern
languages and civilizations at Yale University, where she wrote a dissertation entitled
Engraved in Stone: The Role of Offering Tables in Meroitic Funerary Religion. She
teaches courses on how food shapes and is shaped by human culture and behavior; art,
architecture and the environment; and works to bridge the divide between the ancient
and modern.
Whether hiking with her dog, Joey, traveling the world, keeping up with the latest
action movies, or ferreting out local hidden gems, Alicia is always game for new adventures
and is open to recommendations.
Interests
Public History, Museum Curation, Digital Humanities, Africa, Egyptology, Old World archaeology, Ancient Religions, The Hellenistic World, Art History, Anthropology, and Modern Middle East
