Judith McKenzie (archaeologist)

McKenzie worked on the Garima Gospels, publishing a volume on them with Francis Watson in 2016. The book is the first to reproduce all the illuminated pages in colour. McKenzie also curated an exhibition on the gospels, The Hidden Gospels of Abba Garima, Treasures of the Ethiopian Highland, at the Ioannou Centre, Oxford in 2017.

McKenzie's 2007 book The Architecture Of Alexandria And Egypt was awarded the James R. Wiseman book award by the Archaeological Institute of America in 2010, which described the monograph as a "a monumental accomplishment". McKenzie's work had been instrumental in understanding how ancient architecture influences later buildings, particularly the influence of the Pharos, the lighthouse of Alexandria.

She was a Queen Elizabeth Fellow at the University of Sydney and a Fellow in Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey for the 2003-2004 academic year.

From 2003, McKenzie directed the Khirbet et-Tannur Nabataean Temple Project. 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. McKenzie founded the Manar Al-Athar project in 2012 and was its director until her death.

After completing her graduate studies, McKenzie took up residence in Oxford, becoming the Rhys-Davids Junior Research Fellow in 1987. She held this position until 1990, when she became a British Academy Post-doctoral Research Fellow.

McKenzie earnt her Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Sydney; during her BA McKenzie studied Archaeology as well as Chemistry, English and Ancient History. She received her doctorate from the University of Sydney in 1985. During her PhD, McKenzie spent extended periods living in a cave in Petra, Jordan. After some revisions, McKenzie's thesis was published by Oxford University Press in 1990 as The Architecture of Petra. It was reprinted in 1995 and 2005.

Judith Sheila McKenzie (28 November 1957 – 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. McKenzie was known in particular for her work on the architecture of Petra and Alexandria, having published lengthy monographs on each.