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Jen Thum
Associate Director of Academic Engagement and Campus Partnerships and Research Curator

jennifer_thum@harvard.edu / 617-495-8003

Ph.D., Brown University
M.Phil., University of Oxford
B.A., Barnard College

Jen Thum’s work sits at the intersection of museum education and ancient art. A trained Egyptologist, she creates interdisciplinary learning experiences for students across the university, oversees the Graduate Student Teacher Program, teaches courses and workshops about object-based learning, facilitates the museums’ medical humanities programs, and researches and teaches with the museums’ ancient Egyptian collection. Thum has a deep interest in fostering visitors’ museum literacy and museum-going identities and is committed to celebrating the potential of works of art as sites of learning for students and the public.


Recent Publications

Thum, J., and H. Hyun. “The Art Museum as a Training Ground for Residents in Nuclear Medicine and Radiology.” Journal of Museum Education (2025): 1–14.

Thum, Jen, Carl Walsh, Lissette M. Jiménez, and Lisa Saladino Haney (eds.). Teaching Ancient Egypt in Museums: Pedagogies in Practice. London: Routledge, 2024. 

“Taking the Nature of Things at Face Value, in Ancient Egypt and in Museums.” RISD Manual 18 (Spring 2023): 75–87. 

“Learning from the Lintel of Ptahshepses Impy at the Harvard Art Museums.” In In the House of Heqanakht: Text and Context in Ancient Egypt. Studies Presented in Honor of James P. Allen, ed. M. Lehner, V. Almansa-Villatoro, and S. Štubňová. Leiden: Brill, 2023. 

“Activating the Ancient World with Museum Collections.” In An Educator’s Handbook for Teaching about the Ancient World, ed. Pınar Durgun, 25–36. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2020. Thum, Jen, with drawings by Hannah Herrick. 

Coloring Ancient Egypt. Index (May 21, 2020). 

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