Jennifer Baird, is a British archaeologist and academic. She is

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in Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research focuses on the archaeology of Rome's eastern provinces, particularly the site of

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Career

Baird completed a PhD at the

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, graduating in 2006, with a thesis entitled: 'Housing and households at Dura-Europos: a study in identity on Rome's Eastern Frontier', supervised by Simon James. Baird was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the

. She joined Birkbeck in 2008. She is a Fellow of the

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. Baird co-directs the Roman Knossos Project, undertaking archaeological research in

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. Baird has edited several volumes including ''Ancient Graffiti in Context'' (2011). Baird has excavated at the site of

, work which lead to her 2014 and 2018 publications on the site. Baird delivered the AIA Lecture on "From Aphlad to Zeus: The Archaeology of Diversity at Dura-Europos" at the

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on 12 March 2019.

Honours and awards

Baird was elected a

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(FSA) in 2013.

Selected publications

Books

*Baird, J. A. and C. Taylor, eds. 2010, ''Ancient Graffiti in Context''. New York: Routledge. *Baird, J. A. 2014, ''The Inner Lives of Ancient Houses: An Archaeology of Dura-Europos''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. *Baird, J. A. 2018, ''Dura-Europos''. Bloomsbury Archaeological Histories Series. London: Bloomsbury.

Journal articles

*Baird, J. A. 2007, "Shopping, Eating and Drinking in Dura Europos: Reconstructing Context." in Luke Lavan, Ellen Swift, Toon Putzeys (ed.), ''Objects in Context, Objects in Use: Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity. Late Antique Archaeology, v. 5''. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2007. p.411-37. *Baird, J. A. 2012, "Re-excavating the Houses of Dura-Europos" ''Journal of Roman Archaeology'' 25: 146–169. *Baird, J. A. 2015, "On Reading the Material Culture of Ancient Sexual Labour" Helios 42.1: 163–175. *Baird, J. A. 2016, "Everyday Life in Roman Dura-Europos: The Evidence of Dress Practices" in Ted Kaizer (ed.), ''Religion, Society and Culture at Dura-Europos. Yale Classical Studies, 38''. (Cambridge; New York) p.30-56. *Baird, J.A. 2016, "Private Graffiti? Scratching the Walls of Houses at Dura-Europos" in Rebecca Benefiel, Peter Keegan (ed.), ''Inscriptions in the Private Sphere in the Greco-Roman World. Brill studies in Greek and Roman epigraphy, 7''. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016. p.13-31. *Baird, J and Z Kamash, 2019
'Remembering Roman Syria: Valuing Tadmor‐Palmyra, from ‘Discovery’ to Destruction'
''Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies'' 62.1, p.1-29.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Baird, Jennifer Academics of Birkbeck, University of London Women classical scholars Alumni of the University of Leicester Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Year of birth missing (living people) Living people