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Paige Brevick
Lecturer
Art
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Paige Brevick
Lecturer
Art
Specialty area(s)
Archaeology, Ancient Egypt, Museum Studies, Antiquities Trafficking, Art Crime
Brief biography
Paige Brevick is a Lecturer of Art History at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse, specializing in the art and archaeology of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Levant. Her current research is museum-based, focused on narrative construction and exhibition strategy of the ancient world. She conducts fieldwork in Jordan and Egypt.
She is finishing her dissertation at University College London and recently received a Robert Anderson Trust award for research at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in London (2025). Previously, her work on a Third Intermediate Period coffin from the Minneapolis Institute of Art was presented at the University of Oxford Summer Program in Egyptian Art (2024).
Current courses at UWL
ART 315: Writing About Art
ART 215: Introduction to Museum Studies
ART 251: Survey of Art History
ART 341: Special Topics in Art History - Gods, Kings, and Tablets: Art of Ancient Egypt & West Asia
Education
Ph.D. candidate Egyptology, University College London.
M.A. Egyptian Art & Archaeology, Museum Studies certification, University of Memphis.
B.A. Religion, Cornell College.
Career
Teaching history
Teaching Ancient Egypt for Museum Educators (CEU Course)
History and Archaeology of Ancient Egypt (Intensive Course)
Art and Archaeology of Ancient Egypt and West Asia
Introduction to Art
Survey of Art I: Ancient-Medieval
Greek Art & Archaeology
Museum Archaeology
Collections Management and Care
Professional history
Lecturer, Art History, UWL, 2026-present
Lecturer, Art History, UW-Stout, 2023-present
Lecturer, Art History, UMN, 2023
Teaching Assistant, UCL, 2019-2021
Curator, Museum of Biblical History, 2017-2019
Research and publishing
Robert Anderson Trust Award, doctoral research grant, 2025
Through the Flower, Judy Chicago Research Grant for curriculum development, 2025
National Endowment for the Humanities, Spotlight on the Humanities Grant, 2024-2026