Elizabeth Frood

{{Short description|New Zealand Egyptologist and academic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''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's also been director of its Griffith Institute and is a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford.<ref name="bio OI">{{cite web |title=Elizabeth Frood |url=https://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/people/elizabeth-frood |website=The Oriental Institute |publisher=University of Oxford |access-date=25 July 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="bio college">{{cite web |title=Dr Elizabeth Frood |url=https://www.stx.ox.ac.uk/people/elizabeth-frood |website=St Cross College |publisher=University of Oxford |access-date=25 July 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

Frood became disabled in 2015. Following an infection which developed into sepsis, she lost part of her nose which has since been reconstructed, both her legs were amputated below the knee, and the hearing in one ear and the use of her hands was significantly impaired.<ref name="hypochondriac">{{cite news |last1=Seager |first1=Charlotte |title='My boss called me a hypochondriac' – your stories of working with disabilities |url=https://www.theguardian.com/careers/2017/feb/25/working-with-disabilities |access-date=25 July 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=25 February 2017}}</ref><ref name="brave">{{cite news |last1=Wynyard |first1=Jane |title=My cousin's brave battle with sepsis: 'You went to the pub, I returned legless' |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/well-good/inspire-me/86311698/my-cousins-brave-battle-with-sepsis-you-went-to-the-pub-i-returned-legless |access-date=25 July 2020 |work=Stuff |date=12 November 2016 |language=en}}</ref> After returning to work on a part-time basis in 2016, she undertook her first post-recovery fieldwork trip to Egypt in 2018.<ref name="returns">{{cite web |last1=Pickles |first1=Matt |title=Egyptologist returns to work after recovery from sepsis |url=https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/arts-blog/egyptologist-returns-work-after-recovery-sepsis |website=Oxford Arts Blog |publisher=University of Oxford |access-date=25 July 2020 |date=9 September 2016}}</ref> She wrote about her experience of returning to Egypt post-disability in her article "Returning to Egypt: acquired disability and fieldwork", for the University of Oxford website.<ref name="acquired">{{cite web |last1=Frood |first1=Elizabeth |title=Returning to Egypt: acquired disability and fieldwork |url=https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/arts-blog/returning-egypt-acquired-disability-and-fieldwork |website=Oxford Arts Blog |publisher=University of Oxford |access-date=25 July 2020 |date=15 October 2018}}</ref><ref name="Indiana Jones">{{cite web |title='I'm Indiana Jones - with prosthetics' |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-oxfordshire-45811189 |website=BBC News |access-date=25 July 2020 |date=15 October 2018}}</ref>

In 2020 she made her debut as a television presenter for the BBC, with the documentary "Tutankhamun in Colour" broadcast on BBC4. New colourising techniques were applied to original black and white footage, to explore the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb.<ref name="Bradshaw">{{cite news |last1=Bradshaw |first1=Paul |title=Bringing Tutankhamun to life in colour. Behind the Scenes. |url=https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/factual/bringing-tutankhamun-to-life-in-colour/5150777.article |access-date=14 June 2021 |work=Broadcast Now |date=18 June 2020}}</ref><ref name="BBC Media">{{cite web |title=Tutankhamun in Colour |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2020/24/tutankhamun-in-colour |website=BBC Media Centre}}</ref>

She has also fronted a fashion campaign for Kintsugi, an inclusive fashion brand that takes its name from the Japanese practice of repairing broken pottery with gold lacquer.<ref name="Krasteva">{{cite news |last1=Krasteva |first1=Gergana |title=Oxford Egyptologist fronts fashion campaign for Kintsugi |url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/18832953.oxford-egyptologist-fronts-fashion-campaign-kitsungi/ |access-date=14 June 2021 |work=Oxford Mail |date=30 October 2020}}</ref>

She is a member of the Editorial Board for Journal of Ancient History.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/jah/html#editorial | title=Journal of Ancient History }}</ref> ==Selected works== * {{Cite book | last = Frood | first = Elizabeth | title = Biographical texts from Ramessid Egypt | publisher = Society of Biblical Literature | year = 2007 | location = Atlanta | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=qsm-vNVnUC0C | isbn = 978-1-58983-210-7}}

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