Personal Statement
Gina Criscenzo-Laycock graduated with a BA in Egyptian Archaeology, an MA in Egyptology, and a PhD from the University of Liverpool. Her PhD thesis focused on provincial administration in Middle Egypt during the Old and Middle Kingdoms.

She worked as a Project Assistant for the Association of Curators of Collections from Egypt and Sudan in 2010, before being appointed a Project Curator at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, later that year. She took up the post of Curator of the Garstang Museum in 2013.

Gina has curated a number of major exhibitions at the University of Liverpool, including ‘Meroë: Africa’s Forgotten Empire’, ‘Book of the Dead: Passport through the Underworld’, ‘Before Egypt: Art, Culture and Power’, and ‘Creatures of the Nile’.