Andrea G. McDowell
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| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2016) |
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| Thesis | Jurisdiction in the Workmen's Community of Deir el-Medîna (1987) |
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Andrea Griet McDowell[1] is an American academic. She wrote three books in Egyptology, including Village Life in Ancient Egypt (1999). After moving into law, she joined Seton Hall University School of Law as a professor, became a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow, and authored We the Miners (2022).
Biography
McDowell obtained her BA in Ancient Civilizations from Yale University in 1980 and, on fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Fulbright–Hays Program, her PhD in Ancient History from University of Pennsylvania in 1987.[2] Her doctoral dissertation was titled Jurisdiction in the Workmen's Community of Deir el-Medîna.[1]
McDowell worked as an Egyptology lecturer at the University of Leiden (1986-1989) and a junior research fellow at Somerville College, Oxford (1989-1992), before serving as an Assistant Professor of Egyptian Language and History at Johns Hopkins University.[2] She specialized in Ancient Egyptian law.[3] She published three books in Egyptology: Jurisdiction in the Workmen's Community of Deir el-Medîna (1990), which Barry Kemp said that MacDowell "made her name with";[4] Hieratic Ostraca in the Hunterian Museum Glasgow (1993); and Village Life in Ancient Egypt (1999).[2]
In 1995, McDowell began her legal career.[5] She obtained her JD from Yale Law School in 1998 and clerked for federal circuit judge Morris S. Arnold.[2][5] After working at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Yale Law School,[5] she joined Seton Hall University School of Law in 2003 as an associate professor, before eventually becoming promoted to full professor.[2] At Seton Hall, she has taught courses in elder law, estate law, and tort law, as well as legal history, research, and writing.[5] In 2016, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Law.[3] In 2022, her book on self-government in the California gold rush, We the Miners, was published by Harvard University Press.[6]
Bibliography
- Jurisdiction in the Workmen's Community of Deir el-Medîna (1990)
- Hieratic Ostraca in the Hunterian Museum Glasgow (1993)[7]
- Village Life in Ancient Egypt (1999)
- We the Miners (2022)[a]
Notes
References
- ^ a b McDowell, Andrea Griet (1987). JURISDICTION IN THE WORKMEN'S COMMUNITY OF DEIR EL-MEDINA (PhD thesis). University of Pennsylvania.
- ^ a b c d e "Curriculum vitae of Andrea G. McDOWELL" (PDF). Seton Hall University School of Law. Retrieved September 26, 2025.
- ^ a b "Andrea G. McDowell". Guggenheim Fellowships. Retrieved September 26, 2025.
- ^ Kemp, Barry (2001). "Just Like Us?; A review of Village Life in Ancient Egypt: Laundry Lists and Love Songs, by A.G. McDowell, 1999". Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 11 (1): 123–130. ProQuest 213965157.
- ^ a b c d "Andrea McDowell". Seton Hall University School of Law. Retrieved September 26, 2025.
- ^ "We the Miners". Harvard University Press. Retrieved September 26, 2025.
- ^ Müller-Wollermann, Renate (1995). "Review of Hieratic Ostraca in the Hunterian Museum Glasgow (The Colin Campbell Ostraca)". Orientalia. 64 (3): 356–357. ISSN 0030-5367. JSTOR 43078089.
- ^ Andrews, Thomas G (2023). "We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rush . By Andrea G. McDowell". Journal of Social History. 57 (2): 350–352. doi:10.1093/jsh/shad013. ISSN 0022-4529.
- ^ Herbert, Christopher (2023). "Review of We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rush". Southern California Quarterly. 105 (4): 470–471. ISSN 0038-3929. JSTOR 27305997.
- ^ Magliari, Michael F. (2024). "We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rush by Andrea G. McDowell (review)". Nevada Historical Society Q. 67 (2): 60–62. doi:10.1353/nhs.2024.a934785. ISSN 2992-930X.
- ^ Suval, John (2022). "We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rush". Civil War Book Review. 24 (4). doi:10.31390/cwbr.24.4.13. ISSN 1528-6592.