Victor Ghica

I joined the MF University as Professor of Antiquity and Early Christian Studies in 2015, prior to which I held a tenured lectureship at the Department of Ancient History of Macquarie University, in Sydney. Early career research and teaching appointments included positions at the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology (Cairo) and Université Laval (Quebec City). My research interests span several fields relating to Late Antiquity and Early Christianity, from archaeology (particularly Egypt and Dalmatia), to languages (mainly Coptic, Old Egyptian, Arabic, Syriac, Ancient North Arabian), epigraphy, papyrology, etc. Over the last twenty years, I have been leading several archaeological projects on behalf of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology. Since 2014, I direct also the excavations at [Bribir](http://www.varvaria-breberium-bribir.org/), in Croatia. I am currently the principal investigator of the ERC-funded research project [DEChriM](https://4care-skos.mf.no/) and I lead the excavations at [Dush](https://www.ifao.egnet.net/re) (Kharga Oasis) and Tell Ganub Qasr al-Aguz (Bahriyya Oasis), and co-direct the excavations at Shams al-Din and Dayr Mustafa Kashif (Kharga Oasis).