Leslie Anne Warden is associate professor of art history and archaeology at Roanoke College. Her research focuses on social reconstruction of the Egyptian Old through Middle Kingdoms (ca. 2600-1650 BC), using archaeological ceramics as her primary dataset. Her work dissects how commodity production and distribution was related to Egyptian economic, ritual, and domestic life, providing evidence for local identities and regional continuity over time. She directs the excavations of the Kom el-Hisn Provincialism Project at the ancient Egyptians settlement of Kom el-Hisn in the western Nile delta; additionally, she is the head ceramicist of the North Kharga Oasis Survey (directed by Salima Ikram, American University in Cairo) and head of ceramics group for the German Archaeological Institute's excavations at Elephantine (directed by Johanna Sigl). She is broadly interested in Egyptian ceramics, the relationship of the Egyptian provinces to the capital, and non-elite material culture.
