Meredith Brand is an archaeologist and Egyptologists in the Rhetoric and Composition Department at The American University in Cairo (AUC) where she teaches research and academic writing. Brand’s research centers on using  archaeological science and analyzing material culture to understand the social and economic lives of ancient Egyptians, with particular focus on work and labor, identity, and life in towns and settlements. She explores these research interests as a co-director and the ceramicist of the Wadi el-Hudi Expedition that surveys and excavates ancient amethyst mines and mining settlements in Egypt’s Eastern Desert. She completed her PhD at University of Toronto in 2019 on the socio-economic organization of pottery production in New Kingdom Egypt, and her archaeological research. Her publications have focused on pottery and material culture from excavations in Egypt and Sudan and currently she is working on a monograph on the survey of Wadi el-Hudi. 

Brand also enjoys science and archaeology communication and has written articles on current issues in Egyptian cultural heritage and archaeology for Mada Masr and archaeological science in the MENA region for Nature Middle East. She is a regular contributor to Egyptology and archaeology TV shows, and has featured in series for National Geographic, Discovery Channel, and more.