Professor of Classics and Near Eastern languages and Civilizations
Sofía Torallas Tovar specializes in Greek and Coptic papyrology and more widely in aspects of Graeco-Roman Egypt.
She currently runs two projects at the UoC in collaboration with Professor Christopher Faraone:
1. Transmission of Magical Knowledge: the magical handbooks on papyrus (Neubauer Collegium)
https://voices.uchicago.edu/magicalpapyri/
2. Curses in Context (Neubauer Collegium)
https://voices.uchicago.edu/cursesincontext/
Cultures, Creeds, Arts, & Society