Dr. Brooke Norton is the Dr. Barbara Bell Research Associate for Egyptian Expedition Archives at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She’s also a visiting lecturer at Wellesley College where she teaches courses on museum studies and material culture through the anthropology department. Brooke’s research interests include cultural contact between Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean world, Egyptian-Canaanite influences on temple spaces and ritual practice during the Late Bronze Age, and archaeological archives.

While Brooke has worked at various sites throughout the eastern Mediterranean, including in Egypt, Cyprus, Jordan, Italy, and Greece, she primarily works with the Wadi el-Hudi Expedition. Located in Egypt’s Eastern Desert, Wadi el-Hudi is a series of archaeological sites containing ancient amethyst mines and settlements associated with them. She spent an academic year living and researching in Egypt as fellow at the American Research Center in Egypt. She received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 2023.