Selected Publications
Books
2024: Early Christianity at Amheida (Egypt's Dakhla Oasis): A Fourth-Century Church. Volume 1: The Excavations. New York: ISAW/NYU Press.
2018: ʿAin el-Gedida: 2006–2008 Excavations at a Late Roman Site in Dakhla Oasis, Egypt. New York: ISAW/NYU Press. (335 pages, plus contributions by R.S. Bagnall et al.)
2015: An Oasis City (co-authored with R. S. Bagnall et al.). New York: ISAW/NYU Press.
Recent Articles and Essays
2024: “Christian Identity in the Archaeological Record: Evidence from Egypt’s Western Desert.” In Studies in Coptic Culture and Community: Ordinary Lives, Changing Times, ed. by Mariam Ayad. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press.
2023: “The Use and Capacity of Early Churches in Dakhla Oasis: A Liturgical and Archaeological Perspective” (with Dr. Nathan Chase, Aquinas Institute of Theology, St. Louis).
2022: “Catechumens, Women, and Agricultural Laborers: Who Used the Fourth-Century Hall at the Church of ‘Ain el-Gedida, Egypt?” Journal of Late Antiquity 15/1: 193-230.
2021: “The Hamlet of ʽAin el-Gedida in Dakhla Oasis: A Late Roman Epoikion?” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 57: 13-31.
2020: “Geometric Painting in Late-Antique Egypt: The Ceiling of a 4th-c. Church at Amheida (Dakhla Oasis),” Journal of Roman Archaeology 33.1: 449–66.
2020: “The Changing Sacred Landscape of Egypt’s Western Desert in Late Antiquity: The Case of ʿAin el-Gedida,” American Journal of Archaeology 124.2: 301–20. Available on-line at: https://www.ajaonline.org/article/4084
2015: “The Church at Amheida (Ancient Trimithis) in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt: A Bioarchaeological Perspective on an Early Christian Mortuary Complex” (with T. Dupras et al.). Bioarchaeology of the Near East 9: 21–43. Available on-line at: http://www.anthropology.uw.edu.pl/09/bne-09-02.pdf