Iman Nagy

Profile

Iman Jamal Nagy is a Northeast African Landscape Archaeologist, Surveyor and student of Digital Humanities that has been a part of and conducted research projects in Northeast Africa and Southeast Asia. She earned her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures simultaneously at UCLA. Iman has worked all over the world, her primary research focus in Northeast Africa has included excavations and ethnographic surveys in Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia. In Southeast Asia, through an anthropological lens, she has worked in the Philippines, Cambodia and Indonesia. Iman has also worked in Europe, the States and Central America, in addition to sharing her research in international conferences. As a member of the William Leo Hansberry society, a primary goal has been to provide a platform for voices that have been historically excluded in the field of heritage studies, particularly in the African context. Iman's research interests are rooted in the expansion of ontology in archaeological practice, local worldviews and epistemes, and their relationship to the interpretation of rock inscriptions. Her research is interdisciplinary in nature, including methodologies of global south studies, decoloniality, religion and belief systems beyond the framework of Western analysis.