She earned her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, where she specialized in ancient Maya sculpture. Her doctoral project documented and analyzed carved stone monuments from Chiapas, Mexico, and what they reveal about power and identity in the ancient Maya world. Caitlin maintains a wide array of research interests, publishing and presenting on the iconography of kingship, the Maya ballgame, and Preclassic artistic motifs. Her current project, which she will develop as a fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2016-17, focuses on violence and the depiction of captives in Mesoamerican art. A native of Alexandria, VA, Caitlin graduated from Williams College with a B.A. in English, and earned her M.A. in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin.