Jun Wong

Jun Wong

Postdoctoral Fellow
Historical Studies - Classical Civilization

Biography:

Jun Wong is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Historical Studies, University of Toronto. His primary research interests include iconoclasm in ancient Egypt and the cognitive aspects of the study of ancient Egyptian art. He is currently working on a monograph based on his doctoral dissertation, which examined the damnatio memoriae of the female pharaoh Hatshepsut. He has worked on public archaeology and community heritage initiatives in Southeast Asia, and was previously an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Currently, Jun is a member of the Polish-Egyptian Archaeological Expedition at the Temple of Hatshepsut (Deir-el-Bahri) and Contributing Editor at the Museum of Looted Antiquities (MOLA).

Education:

  • PhD in Egyptology, University of Toronto 
  • MPhil in Egyptology, University of Cambridge 
  • BSc Archaeology, Durham University

Selected Publications:

  • 'Erasures and alterations at Deir el-Bahari: preliminary remarks on their dating' (in press)  
  • "The afterlife of Hatshepsut’s statuary", Antiquity 99: 746-761 (2025)
  • ‘‘What do Egyptian gods look like?’ Heuristics and visual perception in the interpretation of Egyptian art and religion’’, Interdisciplinary Egyptology 3: 1-18 (2024)
  • ‘The canonical and the dynamic: A model for understanding artistic change in the 18th Dynasty’, Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 151: 312-26 (2023) 
  • 'Reading the erasures at Hatshepsut’s temple', Egyptian Archaeology 63: 9-13 (2023) 
  • ‘The role of environmental factors in the early development of Egyptian stone architecture’, Cambridge Archaeological Journal 31(1): 53-65 (2021) 
  • 'Prince Amenhotep and the Revolution’, Nile 30: 35-45 (2021) 
  • ‘Notes on the marginal inscriptions of Ramesses II’, Bulletin de la Société d'Égyptologie, Genève 31: 129-137 (2018) 
  • ‘The pharaoh’s new waistline: A problem with Louvre A20’, Chronique d'Egypte 185: 266-270 (2017) 
  • ‘Raze of glory: Interpreting iconoclasm at Edfu and Dendera’, Journal of Late Antiquity 9(1): 89-131 (2016)