Iwona J. Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin

Research interests:

  • Bioarchaeology of Ancient Egypt and Sudan
  • Impact of climate and environmental changes on human health, dietary regimes and mobility, including isotopic and aDNA analysis of remains
  • Bioarchaeological investigation of childhood
  • Disease and disability in the past
  • Social stratification and health status
  • Burial practices and mummification
Professional career

Education

2014 PhD Bioarchaeology, KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology, University of Manchester, UK
Thesis: A Study of Social Stratification and Physical Health in an Ancient Egyptian Population of Saqqara.
Supervisor: Professor Andrew Chamberlain.

2006 MSc Human Osteology and Funerary Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, UK
Dissertation: Frequencies of Pathological Conditions Ascertained in the New Kingdom Assemblage from Theban Area in Egypt.
Supervisor: Professor Andrew Chamberlain.

2002  MA Archaeology (combined undergraduate and master’s degree programme), Institute of Archaeology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Dissertation: Mummification as an Element of the Rites of Passage in the New Kingdom Period in Ancient Egypt.

2002 ERASMUS Exchange Student, Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Qualifications

Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, UK (awarded in 2019)

ILM Level 5 Award in Leadership in Management, the City and Guilds of London Institute (awarded in 2017)

Relevant Additional Training

2019  Isotope Workshop, Centre for Human-Animal-Environment Bioarchaeology, University of Exeter

2019  Palaeoradiology Workshop for Osteoarchaeologists, Chartered Institute for Archaeologists, Oxford

2016  Electron Microscopy (Introduction), University of Manchester

2016  Human Remains in Commercial Archaeology: Legal, Ethical and Curatorial Considerations, Historical England, Manchester

2015  The Coimbra Method: An Entheseal Scoring Workshop, University of Sheffield

2013  Cross Sectional and Surface Histology Workshop: An Application of Anthropological Methods, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh

2013  Using Human Remains in Teaching Archaeology, The Higher Education Academy Discipline Workshop, University of Manchester

2011  Field Paleoimaging Workshop, Museum of Man, San Diego, USA

2010  Demonstrator Training and Statistics and Data Handling, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester

2009  Dental Anthropology Short Course, Department of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford

2008 8th Palaeopathology Short Course, Department of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford

Positions and functions

2021-2022  Lecturer in Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter.

2020 Teaching Assistant, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester.

2018-2022 Course Director and Lecturer, Bloomsbury Summer School, University College London.

2017-2019 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow, Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw.

2017 Lecturer, Mummy Studies Field School, University of Nebraska-Lincoln & Department of Cultural Heritage and Sicilian Identity, Sicily.

2015-2016 Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester.

2011-2013 Teaching Assistant and Demonstrator, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester.

2010-2014 Project Officer, Wessex Archaeology, Sheffield.

2007-2009 Project Archaeologist and Supervisor, ARCUS: Archaeological Consultancy and Research at the University of Sheffield.

2006-2007 Assistant Lecturer,Institute of Archaeology, Adam Mickiewicz University.

2006 Undergraduate Student Tutor, Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield.

2003-2005 Assistant Lecturer,Institute of Archaeology, Adam Mickiewicz University.

Research projects

2022-2026 Project Lead/Principal Investigator, University of Warsaw: Life and Death in Trying Times: A Bioarchaeological Study of the Effect of Socio-political and Climatic Changes on the Memphite population of Saqqara, Egypt. Multidisciplinary research project funded by the National Science Centre, Poland (Project ID: 2021/41/B/HS3/00471).
Project’s site: Link

2021-2022 Co-Applicant & Investigator, University of Exeter: Tracking Animals Through Time: Biodiversity and Cultural Heritage. Research project funded by the International Institute for Cultural Enquiry (IICE) Development Fund, University of Exeter (PI: Dr Jamie Hampson)

2019-2022 Project Lead/Principal Investigator, University of Manchester: Crossing Boundaries: Peoples’ Movement and the Collapse of the Kingdom of Meroe (300 BC – AD 350), Sudan. Funded by the National Geographic Society (NGS-61475R-19)

2017-2019 Project Lead/Principal Investigator, University of Warsaw: Environmental Changes and the Collapse of the Ancient Nubian Kingdom of Meroe, Sudan (www.meroe-project.uw.edu.pl). Funded from the EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 665778.

2017-2022 Co-Investigator (Bioarchaeologist), UCL – UoK Expedition to the Southern Gezira (Sudan): Mobility, identity and interaction of pastoral peoples with the Nile Valley. Funded by the Society for Libyan Studies (PI Michael Brass, UCL).

2017-2018 Co-Investigator (Bioarchaeologist), University of Basel: The Life Histories of Theban Tombs (https://lhtt.philhist.unibas.ch/ ). Multidisciplinary research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (Grant No. 162967; PI Susanne Bickel).

2014-2018 Co-Investigator (Osteoarchaeologist), Polish Academy of Sciences/University of Warsaw: „Dry Moat” in Saqqara as a Unique Time Capsule, A Source for the History of the Memphite Necropolis Reflecting Changes of Natural Environment. Multidisciplinary research project funded by the National Science Centre, Poland (Project ID: 2013/11/B/HS3/04472; PI Karol Myśliwiec).

2011-2014 Co-Investigator (Osteoarchaeologist), Polish Academy of Sciences/University of Warsaw: The Final Phase of the Pyramid Builders’ Era: An Investigation into the Correlation between the Environmental and Cultural Changes at the Saqqara Necropolis in Egypt. Multidisciplinary research project funded by the National Science Centre, Poland (Project ID: 1799/B/H03/2011/40; PI Karol Myśliwiec).

2010-2012 PhD Researcher, University of Manchester: A Study of Social Stratification and Physical Health in an Ancient Egyptian Population of Saqqara. Funded by the Leverhulme Trust (F/00120/BU).

2008-2010 Co-Investigator (Osteoarchaeologist), Polish Academy of Sciences/University of Warsaw: The Old Kingdom necropolis at Saqqara. Studies on the social structure and burial practices in Egypt in late 3rd millennium BCE, Multidisciplinary research project funded by the Ministry of Science and Education, Poland (Project ID: 2430/B/H03/2008/34; PI Karol Myśliwiec).

Scholarships, grants, awards

2022 University of Warsaw, Programme IDUB II.1.2. (Establishing and strengthening cooperation with strategic partners) – Bioarchaeology and Biomulecules workshop for archaeologists and archaeology students in Sudan (in cooperation with the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums)

2021 Above and Beyond Award, University of Exeter – Academic Excellence Award

2021 National Science Centre, Poland – OPUS 21 Programme, research project funding (NCN UMO-2021/41/B/HS3/00471)

2021 ADR facilitation fund award, University of Exeter – internal award to establish a transdisciplinary research group, Material Lives (lead applicant: Dr Marisa Lazzari)

2021 International Institute for Cultural Enquiry (IICE) Development Fund, University of Exeter: Tracking Animals Through Time: Biodiversity and Cultural (lead applicant: Dr Jamie Hampson)

2019 National Geographic Society, USA – Explorer grant award (NGS-61475R-19)

2016 EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme / NCN POLONEZ – Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellowship funding award (grant agreement No. 665778)

2009 The Leverhulme Trust – PhD scholarship (grant number F/00120/BU)

2005  ERASMUS exchange studentship, University of Sheffield, UK

2002  Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw – postgraduate research scholarship to conduct research in Egypt

2001 ERASMUS exchange studentship, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Scientific bibliography

Vella Gregory, I., Brass, M. and Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin, I. (2022). New radiocarbon dates from Jebel Moya (Sudan): 2500 years of burial activity. Antiquity, 1-6. doi:10.15184/aqy.2022.58

Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin, I. (2021). Isotope analysis and radiocarbon dating of human remains from El-Zuma. In M. El-Tayeb and Czyżewska-Zalewska (Eds.), Early Makuria Research Project. El-Zuma cemetery (Vol. 1).  Series: Harvard Egyptological Studies. Leiden/Boston: Brill: 220­–227.https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004433755_008

Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin, I., Meyer, S., Seiler, R. and Rühli, F. (2021). Bioarchaeological Studies of Human Remains from TT95. In A. Loprieno-Gnirs (Ed.), Life Histories of Theban Tombs: Transdisciplinary Investigations of a Cluster of Rock-Cut Tombs at Sheikh ‘Abd el-Qurna. American University in Cairo Press.

Hassan Abdallah, F., David, R. and Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin, I. (2021). Archaeological report on the excavations of a post-Meroitic necropolis at el-Madanab (Shahid Rescue Archaeological Project). Sudan and Nubia 25: 135–153.

Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin, I. (2020). Human Remains from Mansourkotti, Korti and Ousli East, Sudan, 2014–2018. Bioarchaeology of the Near East 14: 123–144.

Kuraszkiewicz, K., Godziejewski, Z. and Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin, I. (2020). Saqqara: research 2020. Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 29(2): 87–116. DOI: 10.31338/uw.2083-537X.pam29.2.03

Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin, I.J. (2020). Modern technology and the Manchester Mummies. In C.R. Price, Golden Mummies of Egypt. Interpreting Identities from the Graeco-Roman Period. Nomad Exhibitions and Manchester Museum: 196­–209.

Brass, M., Adam, A., Vella Gregory, I., Abdallah, R., Alawad, O., Abdalla, A., Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin, I., Wellings, J., Albadwi, A., Le Moyne, C., Hassan, F., and Abdelrahman, A. (2020). The second season of excavations at Jebel Moya (south-central Sudan). Libyan Studies 51: 126-140. https://doi.org/10.1017/lis.2020.9.

Brass, M., Fuller, D.Q., MacDonald, K., Stevens, C., Adam, A.H., Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin, I., Abdallah, R., Alawad, O., Abdalla, A., Vella Gregory, I., Wellings, J., Hassan, F., and Abdelrahman, A. (2019). New findings on the significance of Jebel Moya in the eastern Sahel. Azania: Archaeological research in Africa 54 (4): 425–444. DOI:10.1080/0067270X.2019.1691845    

Brass, M., Adam, A.H., Fuller, D.Q., Stevens, C., Hassan, F., Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin, I., Abdallah, R., Alawad, O., Abdalla, A., Wellings, J. and Abdelrahman, A. (2018). First season of UCL–UoK–NCAM Expedition to the Southern Gezira (Sudan): Jebel Moya. Sudan & Nubia 22: 38–45.

Brass, M., Adam, A.H., Fuller, D.Q., Stevens, C., Hassan, F., Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin, I., Abdallah, R.M.J., Alawad, O.K., Abdalla, A.A.M., Wellings, J. and Abdelrahman, A.M. (2018). Jebel Moya: New excavations at the largest pastoral burial cemetery in sub-Saharan Africa. Antiquity 92 (364), E6 doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.226

Marlow, E., Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin, I. (2016) Metric sex estimation of ancient Egyptian skeletal remains, Part II: Testing of new population-specific methods. Bioarchaeology of the Near East 10: 27–46.

Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin, I. (2015) A case of metastatic carcinoma in an Old Kingdom-Period skeleton from Saqqara. In S. Ikram, J. Kaiser and R. Walker (eds.), Egyptian Bioarchaeology: Humans, Animals and the Environment. Leiden: Sidestone Academic Press, pp. 77-85.

Kaczmarek, M. and Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin, I. (2013) Demographic, metric and palaeopathological study of human remains recovered from the Lower Necropolis at Saqqara. In K. Myśliwiec (ed.), Saqqara V, Old Kingdom Structures between the Step Pyramid Complex and the Dry Moat, Part II: Geology–Anthropology–Finds–Conservation. Warsaw: Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology, Polish Academy of Sciences, pp. 345–421.

Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin, I. (2013) Accessory staff or walking aid? An attempt to unravel the artefact’s function by investigating the owner’s skeletal remains. Études et Travaux XXVI: 381–393.

Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin, I. (2013) Patterns and management of fractures of long bones: a study of the ancient population of Saqqara, Egypt. In A. R. David (ed.), Ancient Medical and Healing Systems: Their Legacy to Western Medicine. John Rylands University of Manchester Bulletin 89, Supplement, pp. 133–156.

Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin, I. (2013) A case of metastatic carcinoma in an Old Kingdom skeleton from Saqqara. 2nd Bioarchaeology of Ancient Egypt Conference (Cairo, 31st January – 2nd February 2013). PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology 10(1): 21.

Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin, I. (2012) A bioarchaeological approach to the study of an Ancient Egyptian population from Saqqara, Egypt. Proceedings of the 4th Conference of Jornadas de Jovens em Investigação Arqueológica (Faro, Portugal, 11th-14th May 2011): 115-122.

Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin, I. (2011) Multiple epiphyseal dysplasia in an Old Kingdom Egyptian skeleton: A case report. International Journal of Paleopathology 1: 200-206.

Kowalska, A., Radomska, M. and Kozieradzka, I. (2010) The catalogue of burials and small finds. In K. Mysliwiec and K. Kuraszkiewicz (eds.), The Funerary Complex of Nyankhnefertem, Saqqara IV: 27-73. Warsaw: Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology, Polish Academy of Sciences.

Kozieradzka, I. (2007) Society versus disease: Dwarfism in Ancient Egypt. Proceedings of the Fourth Central European Conference of Young Egyptologists (Budapest, 31. Aug.-02. Sept. 2006). Studia Aegyptiaca XVIII: 263-280.

Conferences

2021 Funerary Textiles: Towards a better method for in situ study, retrieval and conservation. Interdisciplinary Workshop, Warsaw.
Presentation: „Grave concerns: Complexity in documenting and studying ancient Egyptian burials.”

2021 The Past Has a Future! Virtual Conference, University of Warsaw.
Presentation: (with Sołtysiak, A.) „Isotopic evidence of an environmental shift at the fall of the Kushite kingdom of Meroe, Sudan.”

2019 UKAS, Manchester.
Presentation: „Humans and Their Environment in the Past: Using Stable Isotopes to Investigate the Collapse of the Kushite Kingdom of Meroe (300 BC–AD 350), Sudan.”

2019 Bioarchaeology of Ancient Egypt Conference, American University in Cairo & 3rd Sudan Studies Conference, Oxford.
Presentation: „Accidental trauma or birth-related injury: A case study from a Late Meroitic cemetery at Korti, Sudan.”
Presentation: „Environmental changes and the Collapse of the Kushite Kingdom of Meroe, Sudan: A contributing factor? Results of stable isotope analysis of human remains from selected archaeological sites.”

2018 14th International Conference for Nubian Studies, Musée du Louvre and Sorbonne Université Paris.
Presentation: „Were environmental changes a contributing factor to the collapse of the Kingdom of Meroe? Preliminary results of stable isotope analysis of human remains from selected archaeological sites.”

2018 Extraordinary World Congress on Mummy Studies, Tenerife.
Presentation with Seiler, R. and Woźniak, M.: „Sudan’s Natural Mummies: A Multidisciplinary Study.”
Presentation with Meyer, S. Seiler, R. and Rühli, F.: „Challenges and Potential of Studying Commingled Human Remains at Theban Necropolis, Egypt: The Example of Tomb TT95.”

2016 Trauma and Changing Circumstances in Youth: A Cross-Disciplinary Workshop, Manchester Metropolitan University.
Presentation: „Lives Short Lived: Child Morbidity and Mortality in the Ancient Region of Memphis, Egypt, in the Ptolemaic period (332-30 BC), Based on Skeletal Evidence from the Saqqara Necropolis.”

2016 9th World Congress on Mummy Studies, Lima, Peru.
Presentation: „Looks can be deceiving: Fake and composite mummies from a Ptolemaic Period cemetery at Saqqara.”

2015 17th Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteology, Sheffield.
Presentation: „Lives Short Lived: Child Morbidity and Mortality in the Ancient Region of Memphis, Egypt, in the Ptolemaic period (332-30 BC), Based on Skeletal Evidence from the Saqqara Necropolis.”

2011 7th World Congress on Mummy Studies. Proceeding of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Pacific Division) 30(1): 122-123.
Presentation: „Teeth used as a tool: Evidence of task-related dental modifications from an ancient cemetery at Saqqara, Egypt.”

Professional membership
  • British Association of Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO)
  • Paleopathology Association (PPA)
  • Egypt Exploration Society (EES)
  • Sudan Archaeological Research Society (SARS)
  • International Society for Nubian Studies
  • National Geographic Society (Explorer)
Public engagement and outreach
  • RAMM Lates events series (May 2022), Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter: presentation and discussion on early representations of human faces in archaeological records
  • Featured in the National Geographic documentary series of the Lost Treasures of Egypt (2019 and 2020)
  • Assisted in organising a touring exhibition of the Manchester Museum ancient Egyptian mummies in the USA (2020-2021)
  • Invited public speaker, Ancient Egypt Societies across the UK (2017-present)
  • Co-organiser of open study days and workshops at the Manchester Museum (February 2018: Children in Ancient Egypt; February 2013: Daughters of Isis: Women in Ancient Egypt; and December 2011: All that Remains: Reconstructing Life and Death in Ancient Egypt and Nubia)
Others

Peer reviewing

  • Reviewer for Nature; International Journal of Paleopathology; Bioarchaeology of the Near East; Journal of Egyptian Archaeology; Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (PAM); Prague Egyptological Studies
  • Grant application/project reviewer for the Czech Science Foundation