Books

The Architecture of Imperialism: Military Bases
and the Evolution of Foreign Policy in Egypt’s New Kingdom.
Ellen Fowles Morris
Probleme der Ägyptologie 22. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
2005
Papers
Bowing and Scraping in the Ancient Near East: An
Investigation into Obsequiousness in the Amarna Letters
Ellen F. Morris
Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 65, No. 3
(July 2006), pp. 179-196
Egypt, Ugarit, the god Ba’al, and the puzzle of a
royal rebuff.
Ellen F. Morris
In The Crossroads II, Or There and Back Again.
Proceedings of an International Conference on the Relations of Egypt and the
Near East in the Bronze Age, Prague 15-18, 2014, ed. J. Mynářová. Prague:
Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts 2015., pp. 315-351.
Exchange, extraction, and the politics of ideological
money laundering in Egypt’s New Kingdom Empire.
Ellen Morris
Policies of Exchange: Political Systems and Modes
of Interaction in the Aegean and the Near East in the 2nd Millennium B.C.E.,
ed. B. Eder and R. Pruzsinszky. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press 2015,
pp. 167-190.
Insularity and island identity in the oases
bordering Egypt’s Great Sand Sea
Ellen F. Morris
In Thebes and Beyond: Studies in Honor of Kent
Weeks, ed. Zahi Hawass and Salima Ikram. Cairo: Supreme Council of Antiquities
Press 2010, pp. 129-144.
Lo, nobles lament, the poor rejoice. Social order
inverted in First Intermediate Period Egypt
Ellen Morris
In After Collapse: The Regeneration of Complex
Societies, ed. Glenn Schwartz and John Nichols. Tucson: University of Arizona
Press, 2006,
pp. 58-71.

Mitanni enslaved: prisoners of war, pride, and
productivity in a new imperial regime.
Ellen Morris
In Creativity and Innovation in the Reign of
Hatshepsut, eds. J. Galan, B. M. Bryan, and P. F. Dorman. SAOC 69, Chicago:
University of Chicago Press 2014, pp. 361-379.
Entire Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization
(SAOC) 69
On the ownership of the Saqqara mastabas and the
allotment of political and ideological power at the dawn of the state
Ellen F. Morris
In The Archaeology and Art of Ancient Egypt:
Essays in Honor of David B. O’Connor, vol. II, ed. Zahi Hawass and Janet Richards.
Cairo: Supreme Council of Antiquities Press, 2007, pp. 171-190.
Opportunism in contested lands, B.C. and A.D. Or
how Abdi-Ashirta, Aziru, and Padsha Khan Zadran got away with murder
Ellen F. Morris
In Millions of Jubilees: Studies in Honor of
David Silverman, ed. Zahi Hawass and Jennifer Houser Wegner. Cairo: Supreme
Council of Antiquities Press, 2010 , pp. 413-438.
Paddle dolls and performance in ancient Egypt.
Ellen F. Morris
Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt
47 (2011), 71-103.
Propaganda and performance at the dawn of the
state
Ellen F. Morris
In Experiencing Power, Generating Authority:
Cosmos, Politics, and the Ideology of Kingship in Ancient Egypt and
Mesopotamia, ed. J. A. Hill, et al. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Museum Press, 2013,
pp. 33-64.
Sacred and obscene laughter in The Contendings of
Horus and Seth, in Egyptian inversions of everyday life, and in the context of
cultic competition
Ellen F. Morris
In Egyptian Stories: A British Egyptological
Tribute to Alan B. Lloyd, ed. Thomas Schneider and Kasia Szpakowska. Alter
Orient und Altes Testament Series. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2007, pp. 197-224.

Sacrifice for the state: royal funerals and the
rites at Macramallah’s Rectangle
Ellen F. Morris
In Performing Death. Social Analyses of Ancient
Funerary Traditions in the Mediterranean, ed. Nicola Laneri. Oriental Institute
Seminars 3, Chicago: Oriental Institute,
2007, pp. 15-37.
Entire Oriental Institute Seminars 3
The pharaoh and pharaonic office
Ellen F. Morris
In The Blackwell Companion to Ancient Egypt, ed.
A.B. Lloyd. Oxford: Blackwell, 2010, pp. 201-217
(Un)Dying Loyalty: Meditations on Retainer
Sacrifice in Ancient Egypt and Elsewhere
Ellen F. Morris
In Violence and Civilization: Studies of Social
Violence in History and Prehistory, ed. Rod Campbell. Oxford: Oxbow Books 2013,
pp. 61-93.