About me

I love to read old letters, diaries, and archives to try to put timelines together of activities, family and friend connections, and what happened in someone’s life. I’m a biographer! I feel a little like a detective, chasing down census data, newspaper obituaries, last wills & testaments, probates, and photographs.

I love to write about and talk to people about all of these things!

More about me, in list form

  • The Correspondence of John Tyndall: Volume 12, March 1871-May 1872 eds. Anne DeWitt and Kathleen Sheppard. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023.

    Tea on the Terrace: Hotels and Egyptologists’ Social Networks from 1885-1925. Manchester University Press, 2022.

    Communities and Knowledge Production in Archaeology, eds. Julia Roberts, Kathleen Sheppard, Ulf Hansson, Jonathan Trigg. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2020.

    My dear Miss Ransom: Letters between Caroline Ransom Williams and James Henry Breasted, 1898- 1935. Editor, Kathleen L. Sheppard; preface, Anne Flannery. Oxford, UK: Archaeopress, 2018.

    The Life of Margaret Alice Murray: A Woman’s Work in Archaeology. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2013.

  • Women’s work in archaeology:

    “The Life and Legacy of Caroline Ransom Williams: A Century of Egyptology in Toledo”

    “Maggie Benson, Janet Gourlay, and the Temple of Mut at Karnak”

    Travel in Egypt:

    “A ‘floating headquarters and working laboratory’: Nile travel and professional Egyptology in America”

    “Tea with King Tutankhamun at the Winter Palace Hotel”

    “Baedeker’s Archaeology: Archaeological Tourism in Alexandria”

    “The Temple of Mut at the Luxor Hotel”

    “Archaeologists on the Nile in the ‘Golden Age’ of Travel”

    And more

  • Playing in the Past series with Gemma Renshaw and Chris Naunton.

    Nile Cruise, Then & Now, co-hosted with Chris Naunton.

  • University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma: 2007-2010 Ph.D. History of Science (May 2010)

    University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma: 2004-2006 MA History of Science (December 2006)

    University College London, London, England: 2001-2002 MA Egyptian Archaeology (September 2002)

    Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri: 1997-2001
    BA Anthropology and Sociology, cum laude (May 2001)