Jacke Phillips is Research and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Art History and Archaeology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.  Her fieldwork in Ethiopia includes five seasons as Assistant Director of the Aksum Archaeological Research Project for the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge.  A Research Fellow at the Institute for a further decade, she is now also a Visiting Scholar there.  Her current Ethiopian projects focus on the 13th c. transition from the Zagwe to Solomonic dynasties in the Lalibela region, and the Eastern Tigray region in the 4th-5th c.  Dr. Phillips also has worked with the Ethiopian Heritage Conservation Project in order to plan and execute the new Aksum museum.  Her other interests include the material typologies and cross-acculturations within the East Mediterranean, Northeast Africa and over the Red Sea, and she has extensive fieldwork experience in Sudan, Egypt, Greece and Qatar.  She has published extensively on these subjects in national and international scholarly journals.  Dr. Phillips is a frequent lecturer at conferences, universities and museums in Europe and North America.