Elizabeth Frood

Elizabeth Anne Frood (born 1975) is a New Zealand-born Egyptologist and academic, who specialises in self-presentation and the study of non-royals. Since 2006, she has been an associate professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford. She has been director of its Griffith Institute and is a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford.[1][2] In 2015, following a infection which developed into sepsis, she had both her legs amputated below the knee, lost the hearing in one ear and most of the use of her hands.[3][4] She returned to work on a part-time basis in 2016,[5] and undertook her first post-recovery fieldwork trip to Egypt in 2018.[6][7] In 2020 she presented the BBC4 documentary Tutankhamun in Colour.

Selected works
  • Frood, Elizabeth (2007). Biographical texts from Ramessid Egypt. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature. ISBN 978-1-58983-210-7.

References
  1. "Elizabeth Frood". The Oriental Institute. University of Oxford. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  2. "Dr Elizabeth Frood". St Cross College. University of Oxford. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  3. Seager, Charlotte (25 February 2017). "'My boss called me a hypochondriac' – your stories of working with disabilities". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  4. Wynyard, Jane (12 November 2016). "My cousin's brave battle with sepsis: 'You went to the pub, I returned legless'". Stuff. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  5. Pickles, Matt (9 September 2016). "Egyptologist returns to work after recovery from sepsis". Oxford Arts Blog. University of Oxford. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  6. Frood, Elizabeth (15 October 2018). "Returning to Egypt: acquired disability and fieldwork". Oxford Arts Blog. University of Oxford. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  7. "'I'm Indiana Jones - with prosthetics'". BBC News. 15 October 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
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