Jacco Dieleman is Associate Professor of Egyptology at UCLA and one of the 2016-17 Shelby Cullom Davis Fellows. He studies ancient textual amulets that originated in pharaonic Egypt and then spread to places like Israel, Phoenicia, and Greece in the first millennium BCE. During his Davis Center fellowship, Dieleman will examine how these amulets were used to protect against perceived dangers and how they encode notions of risk and fortune.

Read more about his Davis Center project in this interview.