Rolland is a PhD Candidate in Egyptian Archaeology. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 2017 with an undergraduate degree from its department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. His research focuses on the continued post-Middle Kingdom habitation of Wah-sut in South Abydos, where he has worked 7 seasons as a field archaeologist.
His major focus is on the urbanism of ancient Egypt, as well as the problem of defining urbanism in the ancient world at large. Much like the study of the urbanism of the modern world, ancient urbanism is sufficiently broad, complex and diverse in its iterations to make its study inherently interdisciplinary; he finds the prospect of scholars from disparate fields collaborating to investigate the phenomenon of ancient urbanism extremely exciting.
He is also interested in the integration of new digital technology in archaeological operations, namely photogrammetry and 3D modeling, as well as the grammar and development of the ancient Egyptian language.
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