Rate My Professor Lissette Jiménez

Dr. Lissette M. Jiménez is Associate Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator in Museum Studies at San Francisco State University, where she also directs the Global Museum and serves as Faculty Curator of the Ancient Mediterranean. She earned her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies with an emphasis in Egyptian Art and Archaeology from the University of California, Berkeley, along with a Master’s degree in the same field and a B.A. in Archaeology from Columbia University. Dr. Jiménez teaches courses in the Museum Studies Minor and the M.A. program, covering museum education, history, and organization.

Prior to joining San Francisco State University, she was Associate Curator and Interim Director at the Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, curating exhibits including “Journeys of Faith: Portraits of LGBTQ Mormons” (2018), “Crossing Borders 1935” (2016-2018), and “A Grave Gathering: Iron Age Israelite Mortuary Practices” (2015-2016). Her fieldwork includes trench supervision and instruction at UC Berkeley’s Aidonia and Nemea field schools in Greece (2009-2017), assistant registrar roles at UC Berkeley’s El-Hibeh excavation and NYU’s Amheida project in Egypt (2009-2012), and researcher for the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum’s “Conservator’s Art: Conserving Egypt’s Past” (2010-2011). Currently, she is Associate Director of Museum Archives and Exhibits for the Abydos Temple Paper Archive project and Director of the Abydos Archive Conservation Field School, partnering with the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities and UC Berkeley to train Egyptian museum professionals. Dr. Jiménez’s research centers on the Global Museum’s Ancient Egyptian collection acquired by Adolph Sutro, situating it in 19th-century colonial collecting contexts through archival work. Her primary focus is ancient Egyptian funerary shrouds from Roman Egypt, addressing identity construction, cultural exchange, materiality, agency, perception, racial bias, and museum display. She published the chapter “From Birth to Rebirth: Perceptions of Childhood in Greco-Roman Egypt” in Children in Antiquity: Perspectives and Experiences of Childhood in the Ancient Mediterranean (Routledge, 2018) and has presented extensively, including as National Lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America (2017-2018).