Darlene Brooks Hedstrom

Myra and Robert Kraft and Jacob Hiatt Associate Professor of Christian Studies

brookshedstrom@brandeis.edu
781-736-2065
Lown Center for Judaica Studies, 308

Departments/Programs

Classical Studies
Near Eastern and Judaic Studies

Degrees

Miami University, Ph.D.
Wheaton College, M.A.
Wheaton College, B.A.

Expertise

Archaeology and history of ancient and late antique Christianity. Material culture and religions of eastern Mediterranean and the Near East. Monasticism in Eastern Mediterranean World. Foodways in Late Antiquity

Courses Taught

CLAS	155a	Mummies, Myths, and Monuments of Ancient Egypt
CLAS	200a	Proseminar
NEJS	129b	Debating Jesus: Diverse Beliefs in the Early Church
NEJS	130b	Sexuality and Early Christian Communities

Awards and Honors

Best Popular Book on Archaeology for The Monastic Landscape of Late Antique Egypt An Archaeological Reconstruction (Cambridge 2017) (2019)

Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Fellow for "Feeding Asceticism: The Archaeology of Byzantine Monastic Kitchens" (2015)

Scholarship

Brooks Hedstrom, Darlene. "The Archaeology of the Earliest Monasteries." Cambridge History of Medieval Western Monasticism. Ed. Alison I. Beach and Isabelle Cochelin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 73-96.

Brooks Hedstrom, Darlene. "Archaeology of Early Christianity in Egypt." The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology. Ed. David K. Pettegrew, William R. Caraher, and Thomas W. Davis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 665–684.

Brooks Hedstrom, Darlene. "The Archaeology of Early Monastic Communities." The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology. Ed. David K. Pettegrew, William R. Caraher, and Thomas W. Davis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 147–165.

Brooks Hedstrom, Darlene. "Baking Bread and Salting Fish: The Archaeology of Egyptian Monastic Kitchens and Ascetic Taste." Knowing Bodies, Passionate Souls: Sense Perceptions in Byzantium. Ed. Margaret Mullett and Susan Ashbrook Harvey. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2017. 183–206.

Brooks Hedstrom, Darlene. "Reconsidering the Emerging Monastic Desertscape." Copts Revisited: Pharaohs, Caliphs and iPods. Theories, Methods and Topics in Coptic Studies. Ed. Nelly van Doorn. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2017. 205–217.

Brooks Hedstrom, Darlene. The Monastic Landscape of Late Antique Egypt: An Archaeological Reconstruction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Brooks Hedstrom, Darlene. "Models of Seeing and Reading Monastic Archaeology." Cistercian Studies Quarterly 48. 3 (2013): 299-315.