Judith Sheila McKenzie (28 November 1957[1] – 27 May 2019) was an Australian archaeologist whose work primarily focused on the architecture of the ancient Middle East.
At the time of her death, McKenzie was Associate Professor of Late Antique Egypt and the Holy Land at the University of Oxford and Director of the Manar al-Athar project, an open-access image archive of the Middle East.
Her experience there, finding that students were unable to visit the sites she lectured on, led to the inception of the Manar al-Athar project.
[11] McKenzie established the project in 2012 as an open access image archive of historic sites in the Middle East; she was its director until her death.
[22] In 2016, she received a European Research Council Advanced Grant for the project Monumental Art of the Christian and Early Islamic East: Cultural Identities and Classical Heritage.