Darlene Brooks Hedstrom

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 AntiquityCourses 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.