Caitlín Eilís (Caitie) Barrett is an archaeologist who investigates everyday life, religious experience, and cross-cultural interactions in the ancient Mediterranean. She is currently co-directing an excavation at Pompeii – the Casa della Regina Carolina (CRC) Project (http://blogs.cornell.edu/crcpompeii), a joint Italian/American project sponsored by Cornell University and the University of Bologna – and working on a new book about the archaeology of ancient Greek household religion. 

Dr. Barrett has published extensively on interactions between Egypt and the Greco-Roman world. Her first book, Egyptianizing Figurines from Delos: A Study in Hellenistic Religion (Brill, 2011), investigated religious change and cultural hybridization in the household through a study of locally-made "Egyptianizing" terracotta figurines from the Hellenistic trading port of Delos. Her second book, Domesticating Empire: Egyptian Landscapes in Pompeian Gardens (Oxford University Press, 2019), is the first contextually-oriented monograph on Egyptian imagery from Roman domestic contexts. Most recently, her co-edited volume Households in Context: Dwelling in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt (Cornell University Press, 2023) is the first synthetic book-length study of houses and households from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt.

Dr. Barrett's work has received national and international grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), National Geographic Society, the Fulbright Foundation, the Archaeological Institute of America, the American Philosophical Society, the American Research Center in Egypt, Dumbarton Oaks, the International Catacomb Society, the Rust Family Foundation, and Sigma Xi, among other sources; and at Cornell, her work has been supported by the Classics Department, the Cornell Institute for Archaeology and Material Studies (CIAMS), the Einaudi Center, the Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences, the Midas-Croesus Fund, the President’s Council of Cornell Women, the Provost's Special Research Fund, and the Society for the Humanities. In 2014, she received the Robert A. and Donna B. Paul Award for Excellence in Advising in the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell, and 2022, she received a Rosenthal Advancement Award. In addition to her current field project at Pompeii, she has excavated and surveyed at a range of Bronze Age through early modern sites in Italy, Egypt, Greece, and the United States.