托比·威尔金森

托比·A·H·威尔金森（英语：Toby A. H. Wilkinson，1969年3月25日—）是一位英国埃及学家，斐济国立大学副校长。

代表作

《古埃及兴亡史》（The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt，2010）

《尼罗河：穿越埃及古今的旅程》（The Nile: Downriver Through Egypt’s Past and Present，2014）

《黄沙下的世界：埃及学黄金时代的探险和考古》（A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology，2020）

《图坦卡蒙的号角：100件宝物中的古埃及文明》（Tutankhamun's Trumpet: The Story of Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects，2022）

Toby Alexander Howard Wilkinson, (born 1969) is an English Egyptologist and academic. After studying Egyptology at the University of Cambridge, he was Lady Wallis Budge Research Fellow in Egyptology at Christ's College, Cambridge (1993 to 1997) and then a research fellow at the University of Durham (1997 to 1999). He became a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge in 2003. He was Deputy Vice Chancellor (External Relations) at the University of Lincoln from 2017 to 2021, and then Vice Chancellor of Fiji National University from January 2021 to December 2021. Since 2022, he has been Fellow for Development at Clare College, Cambridge.

Wilkinson was awarded the 2011 Hessell-Tiltman Prize for his book The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: the History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra.

Early life

Wilkinson was born in 1969. He read Egyptology at Downing College, Cambridge. He graduated with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree, and was awarded the Thomas Mulvey Egyptology Prize. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1993, with a doctoral thesis titled "Egypt in transition: predynastic-early dynastic chronology and the effects of state formation".

Academic career

Wilkinson's first academic position, from 1993 to 1997, was as Lady Wallis Budge Research Fellow in Egyptology at Christ's College, Cambridge. From 1997 to 1999, he was Leverhulme Special Research Fellow at the University of Durham. After this he decided to change direction from academia.

Wilkinson returned to Cambridge and became a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge in 2003. He set up the college's development office, focusing on communications, fundraising and external relations, and served as director of development from 2003 to 2010. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Egyptian History. He is an honorary research fellow in the Department of Archaeology, University of Durham. In July 2011, he became head of the International Strategy Office at the University of Cambridge. In this position, he developed the university's international strategy and helped facilitate international collaborations.

In 2017, he became Deputy Vice Chancellor (External Relations) at the University of Lincoln. In January 2021, he moved to the South Pacific to become Vice Chancellor of Fiji National University. However, in August 2021, it was announced that he was to step down in December 2021 due to "personal family reasons", and he subsequently returned to the United Kingdom. In March 2022, it was announced that he would return to Clare College, Cambridge as Fellow for Development: he took up the appointment on 3 May 2022. He was appointed as the bursar of Clare college in February 2025.

Honours

In 2011, Wilkinson won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize, awarded to the best work of non-fiction of historical content, for his book The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: the History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra.

On 3 March 2017, Wilkinson was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA). He is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Selected works

A New Comparative Chronology for the Predynastic-Early Dynastic Transition Journal of the Ancient Chronology Forum (JACF) 7, 1995, pp. 5–26

State Formation in Egypt: Chronology and Society (1996), British Archaeological Reports (BAR) International

Early Dynastic Egypt (1999), Routledge

Royal Annals of Ancient Egypt: the Palermo Stone and Its Associated Fragments (2000), Kegan Paul

Genesis of the Pharaohs: Dramatic New Discoveries That Rewrite the Origins of Ancient Egypt (2003), Thames & Hudson

The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Ancient Egypt (2nd edition 2008), Thames & Hudson

Lives of the Ancient Egyptians: Pharaohs, Queens, Courtiers and Commoners (2007)

(Editor) The Egyptian World (2009), Routledge

The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (2010). Published by Bloomsbury (UK) on 2 August 2010 and by Random House (USA) on 15 March 2011

The Nile: A Journey Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present (2014), Knopf