ROCHA DA SILVA Thais

Formation

• DPhil in Egyptology: University of Oxford (2020). Supervisors: Linda Hulin; Elizabeth Frood. Thesis: Putting People in their Place: Domestic Space and Privacy in the Amarna Workmen’s Village.
• MPhil: University of São Paulo (2013). Supervisor: Antonio Brancaglion Jr. Dissertation: Gender Constructs in Ptolemaic Egypt: A Reading Proposal of Greek and Demotic Letters.
• BA in History. University of São Paulo (2001).

Emplois et enseignement

• Professor of Ancient History – Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) (since 2024)
• Foreign Associate Member – CNRS, France – HASAÉ Laboratory (Histoire et Archéologie du Sud-ouest Asiatique et de l’Égypte – Maison René Ginouvès) (since 2026)
• Research Fellow – Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford (since 2020)
• Visiting Researcher – University of Cambridge (2023); University of Vienna (2023); Université Paris Nanterre (2025)
• Postdoctoral Researcher – Department of History, University of São Paulo (FAPESP Grant 20/13319-9)
• Co-director of the project Being Egyptian: Dwelling Practice in the Nile Valley and Beyond, in collaboration with the University of Oxford/Harris
• Manchester College and the Egypt Exploration Society
• Director of Mudraya – Franco-Brazilian Collaborative Working Group on Persian Egypt (since 2023)
• Director of the Brazilian Egyptology Center (NEB) – UFMG (since 2025)
• Coordinator of the Ancient Near East Laboratory – LAOP/UFMG (since 2025)
• Collaborating Professor in the Graduate Program in Social History of Culture – UFMG (since 2025)
• Collaborating Professor in the Graduate Program in Social History – University of São Paulo (since 2022)
• Collaborating Professor at FFLCH/USP – Talent Retention Program (PART/USP) (2021–2022)
• Member of the Amarna Project (since 2017-2021).