Brandeis University
Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
415 South Street
Waltham, MA 02453
brookshedstrom@bandeis.edu | (937)360-6456
Profile
Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, Associate Professor, is the Myra and Robert Kraft and Jacob Hyatt Chair in Christian Studies with a joint appointment in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and Classical Studies. Brooks Hedstrom is an archaeologist and historian of ancient and early Byzantine Christianity of the eastern Mediterranean world (circa 300-1000 CE) with a specialization in the archaeology and history of monasticism. She is Senior Archaeological Consultant for the Yale Monastic Archaeology Project-North, in Wadi Natrun, Egypt, and a speaker for the Archaeological Institute of America. Her work combines texts, material culture, and the theory to examine the history of monastic makers of late antique objects and spaces.
Selected Publications
DLB Hedstrom, H Dey (2020). The Archaeology of the Earliest Monasteries. The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West, 73.
DLB Hedstrom (2019). The Archaeology of Early Monastic Communities. The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology.
DLB Hedstrom (2019). Archaeology of early Christianity in Egypt. The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology.
DLB Hedstrom (2017). Reconsidering the Emerging Monastic Desertscape. Copts in Context: Negotiating Identity, Tradition, and Modernity. South Carolina Press, 205-218.
SA Harvey, DLB Hedstrom, M. Mullett (2017). Monks Baking Bread and Salting Fish: An Archaeology of Early Monastic Ascetic Taste. Knowing Bodies, Passionate Souls: Sense Perceptions in Byzantium. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 183-206.
DLB Hedstrom (2017). The Monastic Landscape of Late Antique Egypt: An Archaeological Reconstruction. Cambridge University Press.