Baird completed a PhD at the University of Leicester, 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.[2][3] Baird was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Leicester. She joined Birkbeck in 2008. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.[1] Baird co-directs the Roman Knossos Project, undertaking archaeological research in Crete.[4] Baird has edited several volumes including Ancient Graffiti in Context (2011).[5]
Baird has excavated at the site of Dura-Europos,[6] work which lead to her 2014 and 2018 publications on the site.[7][8]
Baird delivered the AIA Lecture on "From Aphlad to Zeus: The Archaeology of Diversity at Dura-Europos" at the University of British Columbia on 12 March 2019.[9]
Baird, J. A. and C. Taylor, eds. 2010, Ancient Graffiti in Context. New York: Routledge.[11]
Baird, J. A. 2014, The Inner Lives of Ancient Houses: An Archaeology of Dura-Europos. Oxford: Oxford University Press.[7][6]
Baird, J. A. 2018, Dura-Europos. Bloomsbury Archaeological Histories Series. London: Bloomsbury.[8]
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. ISBN 9789004165502 p.411-37.[12]
Baird, J. A. 2012, "Re-excavating the Houses of Dura-Europos" Journal of Roman Archaeology 25: 146–169.[13]
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) ISBN 978-1-107-12379-3 p.30-56.[14]
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. ISBN 9789004307117 p.13-31.[15][16]
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
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^Ancient graffiti in context. Jennifer A. Baird, Claire Taylor. New York: Routledge. 2011. ISBN 978-0-203-84087-0. OCLC 692197099.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
^ a b"ANE TODAY - 201405 - The Inner Lives of Ancient Houses: An Archaeology of Dura-Europos -". Retrieved 28 June 2019.
^ a bBaird, J. A. (28 August 2014). The Inner Lives of Ancient Houses: An Archaeology of Dura-Europos. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199687657.
^ a bBloomsbury.com. "Dura-Europos". Bloomsbury Publishing. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
^"AIA Lecture: "From Aphlad to Zeus: The Archaeology of Diversity at Dura-Europos" (Jennifer Baird, Birbeck University of London) | CNERS". cnrs.ubc.ca. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
^"Fellows Directory - Society of Antiquaries". www.sal.org.uk. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
^Baird, J. A.; Taylor, Claire (2010). Ancient Graffiti in Context. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780203840870.
^Hoss, Stefanie (2009). "Review of: Objects in Context, Objects in Use: Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity. Late Antique Archaeology, v. 5". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
^Frakes, James F. D. (2013). "Review of: Making Roman Places, Past and Present: Papers Presented at the First Critical Roman Archaeology Conference Held at Stanford University in March, 2008. Journal of Roman archaeology supplementary series, 89". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
^Clarke, Graeme (2017). "Review of: Religion, Society and Culture at Dura-Europos. Yale classical studies, 38". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
^Holleran, Claire (2017). "Review of: Inscriptions in the Private Sphere in the Greco-Roman World. Brill studies in Greek and Roman epigraphy, 7". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
^Charlesworth, Scott D. (2017). "Inscriptions in the Private Sphere in the Greco-Roman World. Edited by Rebecca Benefiel and Peter Keegan. Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy 7. Leiden: Brill, 2016. Pp. xviii + 284. Hardcover, $135.00". Religious Studies Review. 43 (2): 161. doi:10.1111/rsr.12947. ISSN 1748-0922.
