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Caroline M. Rocheleau is the GlaxoSmithKline Research Curator of Egyptian Art at the North Carolina Museum of Art. Dr Rocheleau previously served as the GlaxoSmithKline Curatorial Research Fellow at the NCMA in 2005-06. In 2007 she was the coordinating curator for the Museum’s monumental exhibition Temples & Tombs: Treasures of Egyptian Art from the British Museum.

A scholar of ancient Egyptian art and architecture, Dr Rocheleau received her Ph.D. in 2005 in ancient Egyptian and Nubian archaeology from the University of Toronto, Canada. An active archaeologist, she has excavated in Nubia and Central Sudan, notably at the Royal City of Meroe with the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada. She currently works at the site of Dangeil with the British Museum, London, and the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museum, Khartoum, Sudan.

During her tenure at the NCMA, Dr Rocheleau began intensive research on the collection of ancient Egyptian art—one of the least known and least studied areas of the Museum’s holdings. This academic endeavour will result in the Systematic Catalogue of Ancient Egyptian Art in the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art, one of a projected series of definitive scholarly catalogues on the Museum’s principal collections.