Portfolio

Click the links below for a selection of interviews, articles, talks, and digital tools (many available free online).

▧ Teaching Ancient Egypt in Museums: Pedagogies in Practice, edited by J. Thum, C. Walsh, L.M. Jiménez, and L. Saladino Haney. London: Routledge, 2024.

▧ “Interdisciplinarity as a Means of Promoting Equity, Belonging, and Accessibility: What We Learned from a Workshop with Graduate Students at the Harvard Art Museums,” J. Thum and R. Miller Brown, in J. Thum, C. Walsh, L.M. Jiménez, and L. Saladino Haney (eds.), Teaching Ancient Egypt in Museums: Pedagogies in Practice. London: Routledge, 135-147, 2024.

▧ An interview with the Archaeology After Dark podcast on the topic of museum literacy, 2024.

▧ Be A Scribe!: Working for a Better Life in Ancient Egypt, by M. Hoffen, C. Casey, and J. Thum. New York: Callaway, 2024.

▧ “Learning as We Go: Developing Best Practices for ‘Teaching Ancient Egypt’ in Museums” interactive keynote lecture for the Fifth Annual Missouri Egyptological Symposium: New Directions in Teaching Ancient Egypt and Nubia: Practical Matters, Innovation, and Collaboration, 2023.

▧ Seeing in Art and Medicine exhibition website. Curated by J. Thum and L. Muir at the Harvard Art Museums, Fall 2023.

▧ “Taking the Nature of Things at Face Value, in Ancient Egypt and in Museums,” Manual 18: 75-87, 2023 (contact me for a free copy if you cannot access this article).

▧ “Learning from the Lintel of Ptahshepses Impy at the Harvard Art Museums,” J. Thum, in M.V. Almansa-Villatoro, S. Štubňová Nigrelli, and M. Lehner (eds.), In the House of Heqanakht: Text and Context in Ancient Egypt. Studies Presented in Honor of James P. Allen. Leiden: Brill, 152-170, 2023 (contact me for a free copy if you cannot access this article).

▧ Funerary Portraits from Roman Egypt: Facing Forward exhibition website and digital companion. Curated by S. Ebbinghaus, G. Rayner, K. Smith, and J. Thum at the Harvard Art Museums, Fall 2022.

▧ “Getting Schooled by Kids: What We Learned in the Age of Remote Teaching,” J. Thum, F. Gallart Marqués, and Y. Yang, Index, Harvard Art Museums, 2022.

▧ Coloring German Expressionism, written by L. Roth and J. Thum and illustrated by H. Herrick. Harvard Art Museums, 2021.

▧ “Learning with Digital Representations,” P. Durgun, J. Thum, and C. Walsh, Alexandria Archive Institute, 2021.

▧ “Activating the Ancient World with Museum Collections,” J. Thum, in P. Durgun (ed.), An Educator’s Handbook for Teaching about the Ancient World. Oxford: Archaeopress, 25-36, 2020.

▧ “Carving Ancient Egyptian Reliefs” (classroom activity), J. Thum, in P. Durgun (ed.), An Educator’s Handbook for Teaching about the Ancient World. Oxford: Archaeopress, 11-13, 2020.

▧ An interview with the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture’s HMSC Connects! podcast, 2020.

▧ “A Salve for Your Snake Bites,” J. Thum, Index, Harvard Art Museums, 2020.

▧ “An Ancient Egyptian Magical Stele” virtual Art Talk for the public at the Harvard Art Museums, 2020.

▧ “Creature Feature: Animals from Ancient Egypt” virtual Art Talk for kids at the Harvard Art Museums, 2020.

▧ “How Egyptian Art Works” virtual Art Talk for the public at the Harvard Art Museums, 2020.

▧ Coloring Ancient Egypt, written by J. Thum and illustrated by H. Herrick. Harvard Art Museums, 2020.

▧ “Explore Sculpture at the Harvard Art Museums!” interactive digital tool. Harvard Art Museums, 2020.

▧ “The ‘Time is Now’ for Teaching about Art,” J. Thum, Index, Harvard Art Museums, 2019.

▧ “Stelae: Ancient Egypt’s Versatile Monumental Form,” J. Thum, American Research Center in Egypt web article, 2019.

▧ “Rocks, Drones, and Instagram” public talk for the Research Matters! TED-style symposium at Brown University, Fall 2016; one of ten graduate students selected from 60+ nominees for the final event.

▧  “When Pharaoh Turned the Landscape into a Stela: Royal Living-Rock Monuments at the Edges of the Egyptian World,” J. Thum, Near Eastern Archaeology 79(2): 68-77, 2016 (contact me for a free copy if you cannot access this article).

▧ “Visitor as Researcher: Making Archaeology More Accessible with Broken and Unprovenienced Objects,” J. Thum and J. Troche, Advances in Archaeological Practice 4(4): 537-549, 2017 (contact me for a free copy if you cannot access this article).

▧ The interactive gallery iPad interface I designed for Uncovering Ancient Egypt: Ancient Crafts, Modern Technologies, the exhibition I co-curated at the Haffenreffer Museum in 2015-2016.