Jordan contributes to the VIEWS project (Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems) in the Faculty of Classics at Cambridge. He is also involved with research into the world history of rituals, as part of Seshat: Global History Databank. Jordan previously worked as a sub-editor for the Online Egyptological Bibliography, the world's largest database of scholarly references pertaining to the lower Nile valley from palaeolithic to medieval times. He received his degrees from the University of Oxford (BA, Egyptology and Assyriology; MSt, Egyptology and History of Art; DPhil, Egyptology).
Jordan has taught undergraduate and graduate students across several areas of Egyptology: languages and literatures (Egyptian and Akkadian); history and culture; gender and sexuality; art, architecture, and archaeology.
Jordan works on ancient Egyptian religion and visual culture, mainly of the second millennium BCE and often with a comparative outlook. He is particularly interested in ontologies of images: what it means to depict or represent something, including through hieroglyphic writing; how images relate to humans and gods; and how such concepts shape past and present experiences of ancient art and landscapes.
