Mariam F. Ayad is an associate professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo. In 2020-2021 she was a visiting associate professor of Women's Studies and Near Eastern Religions and a research associate of Harvard Divinity School's Women's Studies in Religion Program. She is the author of God's Wife, God's Servant: The God's Wife of Amun (c. 740-525 BC), and the editor of three volumes on Coptic Culture, including Studies in Coptic Culture: Transmission and Interaction.