Headshot of Dr.Brittany Proffitt

Dr. Brittany Proffitt

Adjunct Lecturer of Classical Studies
Curriculum Vitae

  • Profile

    Brittany Proffitt’s research focuses on Ancient Roman material and visual culture, cross-cultural exchange, gender and memory studies, digital humanities, and archaeometric analyses of ancient materials. A member of the Gabii Project since 2017 and the Venus Pompeiana Project since 2022, she has served as a finds lab instructor at both sites, as well as being responsible for studying coinage, wall plaster fragments, and Roman keys across both excavations. In 2025, she participated in the American Numismatic Society’s Eric P. Newman Graduate Seminar in Numismatics, where was entrusted with cataloguing the ANS’ previously uncatalogued collection of pre-Roman Celtiberian coinage.

    Expand All
    • Grants and Fellowships

      Archaeological Institute of America Graduate Student Travel Grant, 2026

      John D. Bies International Discovery Fellowship, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2024

      American Friends of Herculaneum Graduate Award, 2022

    • Presentations

      “Ancient Philological Restorations in the House of Orion (V, 2) at Pompeii”
      127th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America

      “Practical Applications of Free, Open Source Software Onsite”
      University of Missouri-Columbia: Eugene Lane Occasional Papers

      “Unlocking the Past: The Keys of Gabii”
      University of New Mexico: Classical Association of the Middle West and South- Southern Section

    • Memberships

      The Society for Archaeological Sciences 2025- Present

      The Etruscan Foundation 2023- Present

      American Friends of Herculaneum 2022- Present

      Archaeological Institute of America 2016- Present

      Griffiths Leadership Society for Women 2020-Present

    • Professional Experience

      Instructor of Record, Department of Classics, Archaeology and Religion, University of Missouri-Columbia. (August 2025- December 2025)

  • Publications
    Journal Articles

    Proffitt, B. (forthcoming). "Area C Mortar Floors," in A Domestic to Industrial Transition at Gabii (400 BCE-100 CE) (Volume 3 of the Gabii Project Reports) (provisional title), M. Mogetta and R. Opitz (eds.), University of Michigan Press.

    Proffitt, B. (2023). “Reimagining Female Property Ownership in the Later Empire: a case study of a Roman Ring Key at Gabii,” in Gabii through its Artifacts, L. Banducci and M. D'Acri (eds.), Archaeopress.

    Proffitt, B. (2022). “Practical Applications of Free, Open Source Software for Conducting Geocoded Domestic Decoration Data Onsite.” Herculaneum Archaeology: the newsletter of the Herculaneum Society 27: 10-11.

    Proffitt, B. (2021). Special Finds Entry Author for A Cemetery and Quarry from Imperial Gabii (The Gabii Project Reports, 2), L. Banducci and A. Gallone (eds.), University of         Michigan Press. 2024 Recipient of the AIA Award for Outstanding Work in Digital            Archaeology.

    Proffitt, B. (2021). “Seat of Power: The Afterlife of the Achaemenid Throne on Minted   Coinage.” Chronika, vol. 11: 1-19.

    Proffitt, B. (2016).  “The Man Who Would Be King: The Prophetic Iconography of         Lysimachus’ Post-Ipsus Tetradrachms.” University of Notre Dame Journal of           Undergraduate Research, vol. 3, no. 1: 2–52.

     

    Additional Publications

    TRANSLATIONS

    Proffitt, B. (2022). “Appendix: Coins Catalogue,” in “Archaeological Research at the Sanctuary of Venus in Pompeii: Interim Report of the 2018-2019 Seasons of the Venus Pompeiana Project.”, Mogetta, M. et al. Fasti Online Documents & Research 535: 1-41.