Solange Ashby

Ashby studied for a B.A. in Intercultural Studies at Bard College at Simon's Rock.{{Cite web|title=Adjunct Professorial Lecturer|url=https://www.american.edu/cas/faculty/bumbaugh.cfm|access-date=2020-07-29|website=American University|language=en}} She graduated with a PhD in Egyptology from the University of Chicago.{{Cite book|last=Westerfeld, Jennifer Taylor|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1134074305|title=Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination|date=2019|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=978-0-8122-9640-2|location=Philadelphia|oclc=1134074305}} Her doctoral research took place at the temple of Philae in Egypt, as well as excavating at the Kushite cemetery of El-Kurru in Sudan.{{Cite web|title=Solange Ashby {{!}} Smithsonian Journeys Expert|url=https://www.smithsonianjourneys.org/experts/solange-ashby/|access-date=2020-07-29|website=www.smithsonianjourneys.org}} Her research examined the inscriptions, including graffiti, made by Kushite visitors, who traveled to the Egyptian temples in Lower Nubia.{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1112375246|title=Graffiti as devotion along the Nile and beyond|others=Emberlin, Geoff, Davis, Suzanne.|date=2019 |isbn=978-0-9906623-9-6|location=Ann Arbor|pages=76|oclc=1112375246}}

In January 2021 she took up a position in the Department of Classics and Ancient Studies at Barnard College, New York, as an adjunct professor.{{Cite web|title=Gorgias Press|url=https://www.gorgiaspress.com/solangeashby|access-date=2020-07-29|website=www.gorgiaspress.com}} In 2023 she went on to become an assistant professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has held fellowships at the Catholic University's Institute of Christian Oriental Research and the American Research Centre in Egypt and has taught at the American University in Washington.{{Cite web|title=Scholar|url=https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/individual-scholar-page/?pdb=3497|access-date=2020-07-29|website=Women Also Know History|language=en-US}}

She is also a co-founder of the William Leo Hansberry Society, which seeks to educate people of African descent about African antiquity.

In 2018, Ashby featured in a documentary directed by Taaqiy Grant, which looked at many aspects of Ancient Egyptian civilization, including its barter-based economic system.{{Cite web|title=بالصور.. شركة أمريكية تُصور فيلمًا وثائقيًا عن الإمبراطورية الفرعونية في أسوان|url=https://www.masrawy.com/news/news_regions/details/2018/2/24/1270193/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1-%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A9-%D8%A3%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%AA-%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1-%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%85-%D8%A7-%D9%88%D8%AB%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%82%D9%8A-%D8%A7-%D8%B9%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B7%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%B9%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A3%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86|access-date=2020-07-29|website=مصراوي.كوم}} In 2020, she featured in the film series Hapi, which focused on the role of economics in civilization.{{Cite web|title=CAST|url=https://www.hapifilm.com/cast|access-date=2020-07-29|website=Hapi Films|language=en-US}}

• Calling Out To Isis: the Enduring Nubian Presence at Philae (2020){{Cite book|last=Ashby, Solange|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1157824314|title=Calling out to ISIS : the enduring Nubian presence at Philae|date=2020 |isbn=978-1-4632-3968-8|location=Piscataway, NJ, USA|oclc=1157824314}}
• "Milk Libations for Osiris: Nubian Piety at Philae" in Near Eastern Archaeology (2019){{Cite journal|last=Ashby|first=Solange|date=2019-12-01|title=Milk Libations for Osiris: Nubian Piety at Philae|url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705360|journal=Near Eastern Archaeology|volume=82|issue=4|pages=200–209|doi=10.1086/705360|s2cid=212810285 |issn=1094-2076|url-access=subscription}}
• "Dancing for Hathor: Nubian Women in Egyptian Cultic Life" in Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies (2018){{Cite journal|last=Ashby|first=Solange|date=2018-12-29|title=Dancing for Hathor: Nubian Women in Egyptian Cultic Life|url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/883099sq|journal=Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies|language=en|volume=5|issue=1|doi=10.5070/D65110046|doi-access=free}}
• "Meroitic Worship of Isis at Philae" (2011){{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/707825500|title=Egypt in its African context : proceedings of the conference held at the Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, 2-4 October 2009|date=2011|publisher=Archaeopress|others=Exell, Karen.|isbn=978-1-4073-0760-2|location=Oxford|oclc=707825500}}

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Ashby, Solange (2018) [https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/djns/vol5/iss1/2 "Dancing for Hathor: Nubian Women in Egyptian Cultic Life,"] Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies: Vol. 5, Article 2.{{Open access}}

• Interview: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdFRD3YalaY Dr. Solange Ashby on Calling Out to Isis and the Hapi Film]
• Lecture: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vpR3qvy8M0 "Women of Nubia: Early Representatives of the Goddess"]

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