Claire Gilmour has an MA (Hons) Archaeology & Celtic Civilisation and DipHE Egyptology (Distinction) from the University of Glasgow, MLitt Museum & Gallery Studies from the University of St Andrews, and is a PhD candidate in Anthropology & Archaeology at the University of Bristol (Morgan Scholar 2018-19), researching the cultural and academic impact of the study of Ancient Egypt in Scotland. She teaches Egyptology, Archaeology and the Ancient Near East at the University of Glasgow, and has worked in museum collections care for over twenty years. She is also Chair of Egyptology Scotland and is on the committees of the International Society for the Study of Egyptomania (ISSE) and the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE).
Research interests include: Histories of Egyptology, museums and collecting; the life and career of Scottish archaeologist and antiquarian Alexander Henry Rhind (1833-63); the modern reception of Ancient Egypt; Scottish cultural studies; funerary archaeology (especially Ancient Egyptian tomb equipment).