Academic career While completing her doctoral studies, Bestock served for one semester as Adjunct Professor, Egyptian Archaeology at
Hunter College,
City University of New York. Beginning in 2012, the project is excavating and anyalyzing a 12th Dynasty fortress and surrounding buildings on the island of Uronarti, in Lower
Nubia—updating and expanding on archaeological research undertaken in the 1920s and 1930s. a system of recording archaeological data that was developed at Brown University and has been used by multiple Brown and non-Brown field projects, including sites in Italy, Peru, Egypt, Cyprus, and Providence, RI, and Wellesely, MA, in the United States. In 2025, New York University's
Institute of Fine Arts appointed Bestock the Executive Director of the University's Excavations at
Abydos, in Egypt.
Media appearances Bestock has made multiple appearances in high-profile media outlets, most notably on Episode 8 ("Egypt's Lost Wonders") of
National Geographic TV's
Drain the Oceans series and as a featured guest in
Daily Motion's
Wired video series, in which experts answer common questions about their field of research. == Selected publications ==