Foy Scalf

Foy Scalf is Research Associate, Head of Research Archives, Head of the Oriental Institute Integrated Database project, and Principal Investigator for the Oriental Institute Demotic Ostraca Online project. He received his PhD in Egyptology from the University of Chicago in 2014. His publications include studies of ancient Egyptian grammar, religious practices, textual transmission, as well as editions of Demotic and hieratic texts. Scalf is guest curator of the Oriental Institute special exhibit, Book of the Dead: Becoming God in Ancient Egypt, and editor of the accompanying catalog.