Roselyn Campbell

Dr. Campbell is a bioarchaeologist and Egyptologist specializing in bioarchaeological and anthropological studies of state-sanctioned violence in the past, as well as evidence for cancer in ancient human remains. She earned her PhD in Archaeology from the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, and her B.A. and M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Montana. She has conducted fieldwork in Egypt, Jordan, Peru, Armenia, Ethiopia, and Spain, as well as throughout the western United States. She is currently the Head Osteologist for the Polish Egyptian Mission at Deir el Bahri and Asasif in Egypt and the Khirbat al-Mukhayyat Archaeological Project in Jordan. In 2024, she published The Poetics of Violence in Afroeurasian Bioarchaeology (Springer) with Dr. Anna Osterholtz. Dr. Campbell's most recent research project explores how players learn about gender in the ancient world through the Assassin's Creed video games.