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Background

Jeremy Pope completed comprehensive doctoral examinations in two separate PhD programs at Johns Hopkins University: the doctoral program in African History within the Department of History (2002), and the doctoral program in Egyptology within the Department of Near Eastern Studies (2007). In 2010, he received his PhD in Egyptology and came to ÑÇÖÞÉ«°É to teach and research the ancient, medieval, and modern histories of Africa and the African diaspora, as well as the history of the ancient Near East.

Most of Professor Pope’s  is focused upon the ancient African past (ca. 3300 BCE – 350 CE)—particularly the histories of the various peoples living south, southeast, and southwest of ancient Egypt who were collectively termed the Nehesyu (or Nehisiu). While this term included the ancestors of modern Nubians, it also encompassed populations from areas of tropical Africa far beyond the Middle Nile, many of whom then traveled and settled as an ancient African diaspora in the Near/Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean. Professor Pope’s early work dealt with Demotic textual graffiti in Lower Nubia from the Meroitic era (mid-third century BCE to fourth century CE). His publications over the past decade have focused instead upon the Napatan era (mid-seventh through mid-third century BCE) and especially the so-called “Kushite period” (eighth through mid-seventh century BCE) in which Egypt was ruled by Kushite kings (the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty). He has published a book on its domestic policy (), as well as articles investigating the period’s foreign policy in the Near East and its chronology, military, social identities, historical archives, non-royal self-presentation, scribal practice, and culinary traditions. Professor Pope is currently at work on two different book projects, one a grammatological analysis of the ancient African past (Written Worlds of the Nehisi: An Intellectual History of Tropical African Literati, ca. 3300 BCE – 350 CE), and the other a study of that African past’s interpretation in the Western Hemisphere since 1493 CE (Nubia Americana: African Antiquity in the Modern Mind).

In 2016, Professor Pope was honored with the Thomas Jefferson Teaching Award. The award is given annually to a younger faculty member who has demonstrated, through concern as a teacher and through character and influence, the inspiration and stimulation of learning to the betterment of the individual and society.

Professor Pope teaches the following courses at the university:

• HIST 150W: Ancient Egypt in Africa (Freshman Seminar)
• HIST 150W: Bible & History (Freshman Seminar)
• HIST 181: African History to 1800
• HIST 279 (COLL 200): Deciphering Ancient Egypt, Part 2
• HIST 281: Ancient African History
• HIST 282: Medieval African History
• HIST 283: Early Modern African History
• HIST 284: African History: Colonialism & Independence
• HIST 320: Nubia Americana: An African Kingdom in American Thought, 1493-present
• HIST 322: The African Diaspora before 1492
• HIST 478: Ancient Egyptian Inscriptions (Summer Session III)
• HIST 479: Middle Egyptian Texts
• HIST 490C: Written Worlds (Majors Colloquium)
• HIST 491C: Ancient Egypt in Africa (Majors Colloquium)
• HIST 491C: Americans & the Ancient Past (Majors Colloquium)
• HIST 706: Dissertation Prospectus Seminar
• HIST 715: Americans & the Ancient Past (Graduate Reading Seminar)
• HIST 715: Race & Scripture in the Atlantic World (Graduate Reading Seminar)
• HIST 720: Diaspora & Race in Transnational History (Graduate Reading Seminar)

Professor Pope is also faculty advisor for a student club, The Egyptological Society of ÑÇÖÞÉ«°É. He has served on the editorial boards of History in Africa and African Archaeological Review and as a member of the American Section of the Jebel Barkal Archaeological Mission in Sudan.