Caitlin Clerkin

Caitlin earned her A.B. (summa cum laude) in Classical Archaeology at Bowdoin College and her M.A. in Classical Languages (Latin) at the University of Georgia, Athens. She works on local communities under empire, especially in Hellenistic, Roman, and Parthian contexts in the Middle East and North Africa, and on modern contexts of archaeological knowledge production.

She is the assistant ceramist at the Omrit Settlement Excavation Project (Israel) and is studying Meroitic sealings at Jebel Barkal (Sudan). She has also worked at Tel Kedesh (Israel), Gordion (Turkey), and Corinth (Greece).

Caitlin is also interested in museum practice as well as critical museum and cultural heritage studies. She earned a Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies (UM) and is a member of the 2019 cohort of the Center for Curatorial Leadership/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice. She has worked/interned at institutions including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, and the Huntington Library. She is involved in community-engaged work at El-Kurru (Sudan), where she is collaboratively developing an on-site heritage center’s archaeological gallery.

Her dissertation, Hellenistic and Parthian Seleucia-on-the-Tigris, Revisited, focuses on archaeological and archival materials—and their modern afterlives—from the Hellenistic and Parthian city of Seleucia-on-the Tigris (Iraq).