Education
She was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in 2002 by Johns Hopkins University for Near Eastern Studies.
egyptologist university professor
She was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in 2002 by Johns Hopkins University for Near Eastern Studies.
Raised in Houston, she obtained her bachelor of arts from the University of Texas. She was part of an archaeological team excavating at the artisans" village of Deir el Medina in Egypt, as well as Dahshur and various tombs at Thebes. In 2002 she was Kress Fellow at the National Gallery of Art and worked on the preparation of the Cairo Museum exhibition Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt.
After a temporary one-year position at University of California, Los Angeles, she took a three year postdoctoral teaching position at Stanford University, during which, In 2005, she acted as fellow curator for Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Artist
She also worked for two years at the Getty Center before landing a tenure-track position at University of California, Los Angeles in 2009. Cooney"s paternal grandparents were from County Cork in Ireland.
Cooney is married to television writer/producer Neil Crawford. She uses the name Kathlyn for her scholarly work, and her nickname Kara for professional but non-academic work.