Intersectional Biases in Egyptological Publishing Statistics

This article is an equity critique of Egyptology, specifically targeting the way in which intersectional marginalization affects publishing trends. The article looks at 447 articles published in the Journal of the American Research Center ( JARCE ) between 1990–2021 and considers the gender and nationality of all the authors involved. It then uses the statistics gathered from this analysis to illustrate the degree to which men are publishing more than women and non-Egyptians more than Egyptians. It then breaks down these modes of marginalization intersectionally, that is, it shows how looking at these forms of marginalization in combination gives a different view of the data. The resulting analysis clearly shows that Egyptian women scholars publish in JARCE at disproportionately low rates compared to non-Egyptian women as well as Egyptian men. This occurrence has nothing to do with problems specific to Egypt, but is rather the result of global inequalities (the marginalization of non-Western countries by the west, and the marginalization of women generally) working in combination, as demonstratable also in the West. The article then expresses the need for initiatives directly targeting this issue in order to make Egyptology both a more inclusive and holistic discipline.