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Kari M. Fossum is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College. Kari received her B.A. in Classics with a Nexus in Museums, Archives, and Public History at Mount Holyoke College, where she also completed an internship in collections management and provenance research at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, in 2021. She then completed her M.A. at Bryn Mawr in 2023 with a thesis exploring territoriality and the cultivation of community identities in Histria and Olbia during the Archaic period. Kari’s research interests include Archaic Greek colonization, especially the phenomenon of “Milesian” colonization in the Black Sea Basin, as well as mobility in the ancient Mediterranean and Black Sea basins more broadly construed; the Achaemenid Empire and its interactions with Black Sea communities; and the economic dimensions of the foregoing. She is also interested in numismatics and completed the 2024 Eric P. Newman Graduate Seminar in Numismatics at the American Numismatic Society. Kari has excavated in in Italy at Poggio Civitate and in Greece with the Molyvoti, Thrace Archaeological Project.