Professional Summary
Cleo Elizabeth-Robertson is a first year PhD student in Roman Archaeology. She graduated cum laude from Bryn Mawr College in 2019 with a BA in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, before completing the Baccalaureate program in Classical Languages at Georgetown. She received her MA from the University of Missouri in 2023 with a thesis titled ““All Of Them Lead To The Light”: A New Materialist Analysis of the Uses of Light in Mithraic Ritual Contexts Through Digital Modelling”. Her research interests center on material expressions of ethnic and cultural identity in the Roman Empire, ranging from architecture to religious practice. She has excavated for the Ribchester Revisited Project in Northern England and the Discovering Medieval Ferns project in Ireland, and served as both a trench supervisor and a member of the study team for the Venus Pompeiana Project in Pompeii.