Diana Craig Patch specializes in the art and archaeology of ancient Egypt, receiving her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania with a dissertation on settlement patterns and early state development. She curated The Dawn of Egyptian Art (2012), exploring the contributions of Predynastic art to Pharaonic culture, and Cleopatra's Needle (2013–14), celebrating the Central Park icon. In 2017–18, she co-curated Jewelry: The Body Transformed. She also co-curated the reinstallation of the Predynastic and Early Dynastic gallery (2003). Patch teaches and lectures frequently. She has carried out extensive fieldwork in Egypt, and directs the Joint Expedition to Malqata (2008–19), the festival-city of Amenhotep III in Thebes.

Brendan Hainline joined the department in October of 2023 as a Research Associate working on an upcoming exhibition. Before joining The Met, Brendan worked as a Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago, and he has participated in excavations in Egypt at Giza and Tell Edfu. His research focuses on Egyptian language and texts, Old Kingdom religion, and linguistic and cultural contacts between ancient Egypt and its neighbors, and his forthcoming book is a study of linguistic variation in the Old Kingdom Pyramid Texts. He earned his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2020.

Adela Oppenheim received her BA from New York University, MA from the University of Pennsylvania, and PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts with a dissertation on the decorative program of the Senwosret III pyramid temple at Dahshur. She co-directs the Met’s excavations at the Middle Kingdom pyramid complex of Senwosret III (with curator emeritus Dieter Arnold), where her work focuses on the fragmentary relief decoration and sculpture of the king’s temples. Adela has written and lectured extensively on Middle Kingdom art and the results of the Dahshur excavations. She was co-curator of the 2015–16 exhibition Ancient Egypt Transformed: The Middle Kingdom. Currently she is working on the reliefs and models from the Theban tomb of Meketre.

Isabel Stünkel is an Egyptologist who holds an MA and PhD from the University of Bonn. Before joining The Met, she was the founding curator of the Egyptian Museum of the University of Bonn. Isabel is a member of The Met's excavation at the pyramid complex of Senwosret III at Dahshur, where she is working on the decoration of the royal women's chapels. Among her research interests are amulets, especially their religious significance and function, and general questions regarding human remains in museum settings. Isabel is Egyptian Art’s departmental liaison with our colleagues in Education.

Niv Allon received his PhD in Egyptology from Yale University in 2014. That same year, he joined the Museum's curatorial staff as a specialist in ancient Egyptian texts and scripts. His scholarship probes the nexus of visual studies and textual analysis by investigating how art, sign, and language interact. More recently, he has focused on representations of violence in text and art, while preparing a publication on the jar labels from the festival-city of Amenhotep III at Malqata.

Aude Semat joined the Department in October 2019 and oversees the Second Intermediate Period and early New Kingdom galleries, as well as the Department’s archives. Aude studied art history and Egyptology at the École du Louvre and the Sorbonne, receiving her PhD in Egyptology in 2017. She has taken part in exhibitions and cataloguing projects in museums in France and the US, and taught at the École du Louvre until 2018. Her research focuses on tomb architecture and painting, landscape, and gardens, as well as the history of collecting and museums in the nineteenth century. Aude is currently preparing a book on architectural painting and landscape in ancient Egyptian art, and studying the collection of the first Egyptian museum in Russia.

Janice Kamrin holds a BA from Bryn Mawr College and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include Middle Kingdom tomb art, the archaeology of Thebes, and the funerary arts of the first millennium. In the Department, she oversees matters related to The Museum System (TMS) and technology in general. She is a member of the Joint Expedition to Malqata, the festival city of Amenhotep III, and is working on projects related to the archives of The Met’s early 20th Century Egyptian Expedition. Before coming to The Met, Janice directed several projects at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, for the American Research Center in Egypt and worked closely with Zahi Hawass, former head of the antiquities service. She is on the board of the American Research Center in Egypt.