Iman Nagy

Iman Nagy is a landscape archaeologist, field researcher, and cultural surveyor with over 15 years of experience in North Africa, the broader Mediterranean, and Southeast Asia. Her specializations are wide-ranging; in her earlier career she focused on settlement archaeology and religious landscapes, working on projects in Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia. Following research questions related to mobility and the transference of ideology and material culture across vast distances, she began working on the prehistoric Sahara in Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria, with a focus on rock inscriptions and landscape configuration.

More recently, her work on prehistoric archaeology has incorporated coastal landscapes, including the Canary and Madeira islands, exploring prehistoric monuments and their connections between the Iberian peninsula and North Africa some seven to ten thousand years ago. Her research is shared widely in cross-disciplinary international conferences, where she advocates for public education.

Following her passion for the spectacular landscapes of the prehistoric world, she continues to work at sites ranging from the early neolithic to contemporary periods. Based at the University of California-Los Angeles, Iman's ongoing research demystifies archaeology and sheds light on connections between cultures of the deep past. She takes great pleasure in sharing her unique insights from the field.

Language spoken: English