 She was an elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) and of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA).She was made a Grand Officer of the Order of Independence by the King of Jordan in 1977.The British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, amalgamated within the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) in 1998, was officially renamed the Kenyon Institute on 10 July 2003 in honour of Kathleen Kenyon.