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Dr.
Brooks Hedstrom teaches courses in Ancient and Pre-Modern World history and
topical courses related to the archaeology, history, religion, and culture
of the Eastern Mediterranean. Most recently she has offered classes in
Archaeology of the Near East, Modern Middle East, Herodotus, and Asceticism.
She joined the Wittenberg community in 2001. Academic Background
Ph.D. Miami University
M.A. Wheaton College Graduate School
B.A. Wheaton College
Awards and Recognitions
2007-2008 Fulbright Scholar to Egypt
2007 and 2006 Dumbarton Oaks Project Grant in Byzantine Studies for the White Monastery Federation Project
2005 National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant for the White Monastery Federation Project with Elizabeth Bolman, Principal Investigator
2003 Freeman Grant for Travel to Japan and Course Development
2003 Faculty Research Fund Board, Wittenberg University
2001-03 Faculty Development Board, Personal Enrichment Grant
2002 NEH Summer Institute, Eurasian History, Harvard University
2000 Erasmus Institute Summer Seminar in History, University of Notre Dame
1998-1999 USIA Fellow, American Research Center in Egypt, Cairo, EGYPT
Publications
“A Geophysical Survey of Ancient Pherme: Magnetic Prospection at an Early Christian Monastic Site in the Egyptian Delta,” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 44 (2007), 129–37, co-authored with Tomasz Herbich and Stephen Davis, (forthcoming).
“Models of Seeing and Reading Monastic Archaeology,” Proceedings of the International Association of Coptic Studies, 2008, (forthcoming).
"Monastic Delta Designs: An Archaeological Assessment of the Late Antique Dwellings and Settlements in Coptic Egypt," Christian Art on the Borderlands of Asia, Africa and Europe, Polish Society of Oriental Art, Zakroczym, Poland (forthcoming)
“Second Report on the Excavation of the SCA in the Area of the Monastery of Shenute at Suhag,” Peter Grossmann, and contribution on Ceramic Survey, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, (forthcoming).
"Architecture of the Coptic Church" in Churches of Egypt, ed. Gawdat Gabra and Gertrud van Loon (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2007), 19-27.
"Divine Architects: Designing the Monastic Dwelling Place,” in Egypt in the Byzantine World, 450-700, ed. Roger Bagnall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 368-389.
“The Clever and the Cunning: Finding Eurasian Nomads in Premodern History,” in The Light of Discovery: Studies in Honor of Edwin M. Yamauchi, ed. John Wineland (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2007), 167-210.
"Redrawing a Portrait of Egyptian Monasticism,” in Medieval Monks and Their World, Ideas and Realities: Studies in Honor of Richard Sullivan, ed. David Blanks, Michael Frassetto and Amy Livingstone (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2006), 11-34.
"An Archaeological Mission for the White Monastery,” Coptica 4 (2005): 1-26.
"The Excavation in the Monastery of Apa Shenute (Dayr Anba Shinuda) at Suhag,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 58 (2004): 371-382. Co-authors Mohamed Abdal-Rassul, Peter Grossmann and Elizabeth S. Bolman
Courses Taught