Elisabeth R. O'Connell is a curator in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum with responsibility for Roman and Late Antique collections.
O'Connell completed her BA, MA, and PhD at the University of California, Berkeley in the faculty of Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology.
Her PhD (awarded in 2007) examined how monastic communities in late antique Egypt re-used funerary architecture.
[5] For the British Museum O'Connell has worked at the sites of Elkab and Hagr Edfu[6] in Upper Egypt, publishing the fieldwork reports in a series of articles with Vivian Davies.
[7] She has also re-assembled previously unpublished objects collected during early 20th century fieldwork in Egypt for modern publication from the sites of Antinoupolis[8] and Wadi Sarga.