Blair Betik

Blair Katherine Betik studies the art, archaeology, and religion of the ancient Mediterranean world, particularly in the frontier provinces of the Roman Empire. Her doctoral research explores the many ways in which altars operated in real space in the provinces of Roman Britain and Syria during the Imperial period. 

Blair has interned in the Yale University Art Gallery and the Crow Museum of Asian Art. She has excavated locally in Connecticut with the Mohegan Archaeology Project, and has conducted research in geoarchaeology and paleoarchaeology labs. Blair holds BAs in Art History and Anthropology from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas and an MSt in Classical Archaeology from Brasenose College, University of Oxford. She was a visiting student at the Institute of Archaeology at University College London from 2022-2024.