Brigitte Keslinke

Brigitte (she/her) received a B.A. in Archaeology and History of Art and Architecture from Boston University in 2017 and an M.A. in Classical Art and Archaeology from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2019. Currently, she works at the sites of Gordion and Kınık Höyük in Turkey, but she has also excavated in the sanctuary at Athienou-Malloura on Cyprus. Her research centers on ceramics, feasting, and religion, and she is particularly interested in the role that food played in identity and community construction in the Hellenistic and Roman Mediterranean. In her dissertation, she uses food and feasting to clarify the transmission of ritual practice, especially as it pertains to the cult of Mithras, and to better understand what role food-related activities played in situating this new cult within existing religious landscapes across the Roman Empire.