Peter Dorman

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Peter Fitzgerald Dorman is an epigraphist, philologist, and cultural anthropologist. He is professor and chair in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC) of the University of Chicago, and was director of Chicago House and the Epigraphic Survey project of the Oriental Institute.

He is arguably the leading non-Egyptian expert on the mid-Eighteenth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, and occasionally spars with Zahi Hawass over the interpretation and appropriation of artifacts and texts associated with this period and their relevance to modern Egyptian identity and pride.