Publications

Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age. St. Martin’s Press, forthcoming.

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

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.

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

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

World Histories of Archaeology, Special Collection of Bulletin of the History of Archaeology. eds. Kathleen Sheppard, Julia Roberts, Ulf Hansson, Jonathan Trigg. Published 29 November 2016.

Patrícia Martíns Marcos, Sarah E. Naramore, Myrna Perez Sheldon, Sarah Pickman, Sarah A. Qidwai, Kathleen Sheppard, “HSS Virtual Forum: Futures Series,” Isis 112:3 (September 2021): 573-581.

“British Egyptology (1882-1914),” in Rune Nyord and Willeke Wendrich (eds.), UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology (Los Angeles: UCLA, July 2021), 12 pp. ISSN 2693-7425.

John Stewart, Kathleen Sheppard, “Choose Your Own Adventure: Gamified Course Design in History of Science,” International Journal of Designs for Learning 12:2 (2021): 40-48.

“Tea with King Tut at The Winter Palace Hotel,” Journal of History and Cultures 10 (2019): 67-88.

“On His Majesty’s Secret Service: James Henry Breasted, Accidental Spy,” Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 44 (2017-2018): 251-272.

“Between Spectacle and Science: Margaret Murray and the Tomb of the Two Brothers,” Science in Context, 25:4 (2012): 525-549.

“Flinders Petrie and Eugenics at UCL,” Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, Volume 20:1 (May 2010): 16-29. “Flinders Petrie and Eugenics,” Project Gallery, Antiquity (September 2008).

Julia Roberts and Kathleen Sheppard “Introduction: clusters of knowledge,” in Communities and Knowledge Production in Archaeology, eds. Julia Roberts, Kathleen Sheppard, Ulf Hansson, Jonathan Trigg. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press (2020), 1-13.

“‘Trying desperately to make myself an Egyptologist’: James Breasted’s Early Scientific Network,” in Communities and Knowledge Production in Archaeology, eds. Julia Roberts, Kathleen Sheppard, Ulf Hansson, Jonathan Trigg. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press (2020), 174-187.

“Margaret Alice Murray and Archaeological Training in the Classroom: Preparing ‘Petrie’s Pups,’” in Histories of Egyptology: Interdisciplinary Measures, ed. William Carruthers (London: Routledge, 2014), 113-128.

“Afterword,” in Debbie Challis, The Archaeology of Race: The Eugenic Ideas of Francis Galton and Flinders Petrie (London: Bloomsbury, 2013), 223-232.

“‘Constant Companions’ and ‘Intimate Friends’: The Lives and Careers of Maggie Benson and Nettie Gourlay.” Lady Science (June 2019): https://www.ladyscience.com/constant-companions-and-intimate-friends/no57

“Selective Blindness: Ida Bengtson and the Treatment of Trachoma.” Lady Science, on, The New Inquiry (December 2018): https://www.ladyscience.com/selective-blindness-ida-bengtson-and-the-treatment-of-trachoma/no51

“Kate Sheppard and the Science of Suffrage in New Zealand.” Lady Science, on, The New Inquiry (April 2018): https://www.ladyscience.com/kate-sheppard-and-the-science-of-suffrage-in-new-zealand/no43

“Will the Real Amelia Peabody Please Stand Up?” Lady Science (January 2018): https://www.ladyscience.com/will-the-real-amelia-peabody-please-stand-up/no40

“Forced into the Fringe: Margaret Murray’s Witch-Cult Hypothesis.” Lady Science (April 2017): https://www.ladyscience.com/forcedtothefringe/no31

“What Does a Woman Know?” Lady Science (December 2016): https://www.ladyscience.com/whatdoesawomanknow/no27