Dr. Lisa Saladino Haney is Assistant Curator of Egypt on the Nile at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, as well as a part-time instructor at the University of Pittsburgh. Lisa obtained her masters in Ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian Studies with a concentration in Museum Studies from New York University, and her PhD in Egyptology from the University of Pennsylvania. She’s currently working on the reinstallation of the Walton Hall of Ancient Egypt in the Carnegie Museum, and her research interests include visual representation of kingship in Egypt and its movements across the ancient world, as well as trade and connections between Egypt and the Near East in antiquity. She’s written extensively on museum pedagogy and the display of Egyptian artifacts and heritage in museums, including her most recent edited publication Teaching Ancient Egypt in Museums: Pedagogies in Practice (2024).
Listen in, as Dr. Saladino Haney speaks about museum pedagogy, community engagement in exhibit development, and the display of Egyptian cultural heritage.
Interested in more information? Check out these publications from Dr. Haney.
Thum, Jen, Carl Walsh, Lissette M. Jiménez, and Lisa Saladino Haney, eds. 2024. Teaching Ancient Egypt in Museums: Pedagogies in Practice. London: Routledge.
Haney, Lisa S. 2022. “An Overview of the Offering Trays and Soul Houses in the Penn Museum.” Beyond Egypt: Relations and Imaginations of the Ancient Past 36 (December).
Haney, Lisa S. “Spatial Narratives of Death: From Egypt to the Museum.” In Tara Prakash, Jennifer Miyuki Babcock, and Lisa Saladino Haney (eds.), Rethinking Ancient Egypt: Studies in Honor of Ann Macy Roth, 137-153. Harvard Egyptological Studies Series 22, Brill. 2025.
Haney, Lisa S. and Ciara Cryst. “Why is this Here? Bringing the Question of Provenance to the Museum Floor,” In Proceedings of the 13th International Congress of Egyptologists, Leiden, 2023. Leuven and Leiden: Peeters and Netherlands Institute for the Near East. Forthcoming.
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Academic Publications
Abd El Gawad, Heba and Alice Stevenson. “Egyptian Mummified Remains: Communities of Descent and Practice.” In: Biers, Trisha and Katie Stringer Clary (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Museums, Heritage and Death, 238-258. Routledge: Abingdon, UK. 2024.
Baber, Tessa T. “Ancient Corpses as Curiosities: Mummymania in the Age of Early Travel.” Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 8 (2016): 60–92.
Borromeo, Gina and MJ Robinson. “Care Across Cultures: Shifting our Approach to a Mummy in our Museum.” In Jen Thum, Carl Walsh, Lissette Jiménez, and Lisa Saladino Haney (eds.), Teaching Ancient Egypt in Museums: Pedagogies in Practice. London: Routledge, 2024.
Cannon, Aubrey. “Spatial Narratives of Death, Memory, and Transcendence.” In Helaine Silverman and David B. Small (eds.), The Space and Place of Death, 191–99. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 11. Arlington: American Anthropological Association, 2002.
Cassman, Vicki, Nancy Odegaard, and Joseph Powell, eds. Human Remains: Guide for Museums and Academic Institutions. Lanham: Altamira Press, 2007.
Clegg, Margaret. Human Remains: Curation, Reburial and Repatriation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Excell, Karen. “Covering the Mummies at the Manchester Museum. A Discussion of Authority, Authorship, and Agendas in the Human Remains Debate.” In Howard Williams and Melanie Giles (eds.), Archaeologists and the Dead: Mortuary Archaeology in Contemporary Society, 233–50. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
MacDonald, Sally and Michael Rice, eds. Consuming Ancient Egypt. London: UCL Press, 2003.
Marstine, Janet, ed. The Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics: Redefining Ethics for the Twenty-First Century Museum. London: Routledge, 2011.
Stevenson, Alice. Egyptian Archaeology and the Museum. Oxford Handbooks Online, 2014.
Stevenson, Alice. Scattered Finds: Archaeology, Egyptology and Museums. London, 2019.
Stienne, Angela. Mummified: The Stories Behind Egyptian Mummies in Museums. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022.
Swain, Hedley. “Museum Practice and the Display of Human Remains.” In by Howard Williams and Melanie Giles (eds.), Archaeologists and the Dead: Mortuary Archaeology in Contemporary Society, 169–83. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Open Access Resources
Carnegie Museum of Natural History. “Contemporary Coptic Censer.” Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
Carnegie Museum of Natural History. “From Egypt to Pittsburgh.” Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
Carnegie Museum of Natural History. “Ancient Egypt Style Guide.”
Haney, Lisa. 2020. “Egypt and the Nile.” Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
Haney, Lisa. 2021. “Archaeological Adventures in Egypt.” Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
Keith, Lauren. 2022. “Why Are Egypt’s Treasures Housed Overseas? | History.” Smithsonian Magazine. .
O’Driscoll, Bill. 2024. “Carnegie Museum offers behind-the-scenes look at Egypt exhibit revamp.” 90.5 WESA.
Parent, Charlotte, Heba Abd el Gawad, and Katherine Blouin. 2020. “#EOTalks 4: Your Mummies, Their Ancestors? Caring for and About Ancient Egyptian Human Remains.” Everyday Orientalism.
Peopling the Past. Blog Post #19: Peopling the Past’s Approach to the Study and Display Human Remains
Pitt Rivers Museum. Human Remains in the Pitt Rivers Museum
Rouvalis, Cristina. “Bringing Ancient Egypt Alive – Carnegie Magazine.” Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.
“The Stories We Keep.” Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
UNESCO. 2024. “UNESCO Leads Exhibition on Egypt’s Living Heritage at the Egyptian Museum.” UNESCO.
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