Rate My Professor Susanne Binder

Susanne Binder is Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Archaeology, School of Humanities, at Macquarie University and a member of the Australian Centre for Egyptology. She earned her PhD from Macquarie University in 2005, receiving the Vice-Chancellor's Commendation for a doctoral thesis of exceptional merit for her work on The Gold of Honour in New Kingdom Egypt, subsequently published as a monograph in 2008 by Golden House Publications. Her research specializations encompass New Kingdom Egyptology, with emphasis on administration, society, prosopography, Egyptian archaeology, and material culture, alongside studies in 19th-century German manuscript documents, travel accounts, and the history of scientific exploration of Egypt, particularly the Prussian expedition led by Richard Lepsius (1842-1845) and the diary and drawings of Max Weidenbach. Binder has engaged in annual archaeological fieldwork with the Macquarie Theban Tombs Project in Luxor, Egypt, since 1995, contributing to excavations such as those at TT 148 and TT 149.

Throughout her career, Binder taught courses across German Studies and Egyptology in the Department of Media, Communication, Creative Arts, Language and Literature, and the Department of History and Archaeology until 2022. She has been recognized with the Macquarie University Vice-Chancellor’s Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (2012) and the Faculty of Arts Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (2012). Notable publications include New Kingdom tomb robbery in Thebes: archaeological evidence from Dra Abu el Naga (2025, co-authored with Boyo Ockinga), Perspectives on the production of bread: findings from TT 149 (2025), Die Zeichnungen und die Tagebucheinträge von Max Weidenbach: Zur Tätigkeit der Zeichner während der Preußischen Expedition (2024), and Catalogue of funerary cones (2024). As editor of the Annual Memoir of the Australian Centre for Egyptology, she has advanced scholarly dissemination in the field. Binder has supervised multiple PhD and Masters by Research students to completion and leads projects such as the Weidenbach-Diary Project and contributions to the Centre for Ancient Cultural Heritage and Environment.