While it isn't a flourishing field as it once was due to many Ancient Egyptian sites already being uncovered, Egyptology is a real thing. It's okay to be a specialist in archaeology. My daughter wants to be an Egyptologist when she grows up, and I encourage her in that. She'll probably change her mind and choose something more practical as she gets older, but for now I am happy that she's interested in learning and in ancient cultures.

What is true of this professor is that she's a dipshit and a tool, who is using her platform to forward her regressive ideology. These are the exact kind of people that you don't want in charge of writing about history. We shouldn't dissuade conservatives from getting into history, we need more of them so that our history, culture, and patrimony isn't erased or warped into something that it isn't.