Rate My Professor Rachel Yuen-Collingridge

Yuen-Collingridge held Postdoctoral Research Fellowships on ARC-funded projects including 'Forging Antiquity: Authenticity, Forgery and Fake Papyri' (2017-2021), 'Papyri from the Rise of Christianity in Egypt', 'Knowledge Transfer and Administrative Professionalism in a Pre-Typographic Society', and studies on magical papyri such as 'Reading Content and Format in the Greek Magical Papyri from Roman Egypt' (2014) and 'Authority and Artefact' (2016). With over twenty years of tertiary teaching experience, she has instructed in ancient history at Macquarie University, UNSW, University of Sydney, and University of New England, delivered guest lectures at ANU, and conducted papyrology workshops. She was awarded the Faculty of Arts Teaching Excellence Award in 2023. Key publications include "Forgery as decolonisation: Constantine Simonides in Liverpool" (2025), "Between representation and the real: the forgeries of Constantine Simonides" (2023), "Peribiophoty" (2023, co-authored), "GEMF 60 (=PGM XIII): a study of material, scribal, and compositional issues" (2022, co-authored with Richard Gordon), and "Observing the scribe at work" (2021, co-editor). She co-convened the 'Markers of Authenticity' interdisciplinary seminar series, developed ethics documents for cultural heritage projects, ran public lectures and workshops, and serves as a founding member of the Society for Australasian Women in Ancient World Studies and member of the Association Internationale de Papyrologues.