University of Copenhagen

Graduate Student, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies

PhD fellow

About

My primary research interests lie within the archaeology of the Late Antique period in Egypt and the Levant (3rd-8th centuries). I am particularly interested in urban development following the Roman conquest of the Near East and the emergence of Christianity and its impact on economy, built environment and material culture.  I am currently writing my PhD on the social and economic relations between monasteries and contemporary society, from their formation in Late Antiquity into the Early Islamic Period. This work is in part based on my long term engagement with two archaeological projects in Egypt. That is, the excavation and recording of the White Monastery in Sohag (directed by Dr. Stephen Davies, Yale University) and the documentation of the Coptic Reuse of the North Tombs at Tell al-Amarna (Dr. Gillian Pyke and Barry Kemp).

During the past ten years, I have also participated in field work in Jordan, Qatar and Denmark and have, since the project began in 2002, been part of the organisation and daily management of the archaeological field school of Near Eastern Archaeology at University of Copenhagen, The Islamic Jarash Project (Dr. Alan Walmsley).

From 2011, I have co-directed the Late Antique Jarash Project with Alan Walmsley. The objectives of this project are to explore a seemingly domestic area and address issues such as accessibility, waste disposal and the supply, distribution and drainage of water within a late antique/ early Islamic town. 

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