In this blog, Professor Lobban, Jr. will be sharing with us updates from his current trip to Egypt. To begin, here are several images from his past trips to Egypt and his on-going work in Sudan.
Richard Lobban, Jr. (Ph.D., Northwestern) is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and African Studies at Rhode Island College, where he taught since 1972. At RIC, Professor Lobban is also the Executive Director of the Sudan Studies Association. Professor Lobban spent two years on the research staff at the American University in Cairo and has taught in Khartoum, Sudan, as well as in the U.S. at the University of Pittsburgh, Tufts, Bucknell, and Dartmouth. He lived in the Nile valley for six years and conducted his own ethnographic fieldwork in Arabic. Recently he received an excavation license for a continuing archaeological project in Sudanese Nubia with colleagues from Rome and Moscow.