Scholarship and Biography

Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, Associate Professor, is the Myra and Robert Kraft and Jacob Hiatt 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 theory to examine the history of monastic makers of late antique objects and spaces.

Honors

Best Popular Book on Archaeology for The Monastic Landscape of Late Antique Egypt An Archaeological Reconstruction
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2019
Byzantine Fellow for "Feeding Asceticism: The Archaeology of Byzantine Monastic Kitchens"
Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University), 2015

Organizational Affiliations

Myra and Robert Kraft and Jacob Hiatt Associate Professor of Christian Studies, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University

Myra and Robert Kraft and Jacob Hiatt Associate Professor of Christian Studies, Department of Classical and Early Mediterranean Studies, Brandeis University

Chair, Department of Classical and Early Mediterranean Studies, Brandeis University

Chair/Director, Department/Program, Interdepartmental Program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Brandeis University

Education

Miami University-Oxford
Ph.D.
Wheaton College
M.A.
Wheaton College
B.A.