Associate Professor
Department of Art

Jared Benton

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NORFOLK, 23529

Ph.D. in History of Art and Architecture, University of Virginia, (2014)

M.A. in Classics, The University of Arizona, (2005)

B.A. in Classics, University of Colorado, (2002)

Articles

Schirmer, C., Walthall, D., Souza, R. and Benton, J. T. (2021). Preliminary Report on the 2018 Field Season of the American Excavations at Morgantina: Contrada Agnese Project (CAP). FASTI FOLD&R 500.
Benton, J. T. (2021). The Bakeries of Volubilis: Process, Space, and Interconnectivity. Mouseion 17 (2) , pp. 241-272.
Derek, W., Orlandini, O., Benton, J. T., Schirmer, C., Lobue, L. and Culotta, S. (2021). Provenancing the Stone Tools of Volubilis, Morocco: A Socio-Economic Interpretation of Stonework Lithologies. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 38 (August) (103105).
Tharler, A., Walthall, D., Wueste, E., Schirmer, C., Crowther, B., Benton, J. T., Souza, R. and Huemoeller, K. (2020). Preliminary Report on the 2017 Field Season of the American Excavations at Morgantina: Contrada Agnese Project (CAP). FASTI FOLD&R 487.
Souza, R., Walthall, D. and Benton, J. T. (2019). Preliminary Report on the 2016 Field Season of the American Excavations at Morgantina: Contrada Agnese Project (CAP). FASTI FOLD&R (450).
Walthall, D., Souza, R. and Benton, J. T. (2018). Preliminary Report on the 2015 Field Season of the American Excavations at Morgantina: Contrada Agnese Project (CAP). FASTI FOLD&R 408.
Walthall, D., Souza, R., Benton, J. T. and Huemoeller, J. (2016). Preliminary Report on the 2014 Field Season of the American Excavations at Morgantina: Contrada Agnese Project (CAP). FOLD&R (364).
Benton, J. T., Gorham, B., Huemoeller, J., Lieberman, L., Massey, D., Souza, R. and Walthall, A. (2015). Relazione sul recente lavoro a Morgantina: The Contrada Agnese Project (2013-2014). Atti del convegno nazionale ‘la geoarcheologia come chiave di lettura per uno sviluppo sostenibile del territorio’.
Walthall, A., Souza, R., Benton, J. T. and Huemoeller, J. (2014). Preliminary Report on the 2013 Field Season of the American Excavations at Morgantina: Contrada Agnese Project (CAP). FOLD&R (322).

Books

Benton, J. T. (2020). The Bread Makers: The Social and Professional Lives of Bakers in the Western Roman Empire. . Palgrave MacMillan.

Book Chapters

Benton, J. T. (2022). pistore panem petimus: Vertical Specialization in the Late-Antique Baking Industry A Quaint and Curious Volume: Essays in Honor of John J. Dobbins (pp. 117-135) Summertown:.
Benton, J. T. (2020). The Social Construction of Roman Industrial Space: The Limits of Chaînes and the Nature of Roman Baking Designating place: archaeological perspectives on built environments in Ostia and Pompeii (pp. 153-167) Leiden: Leiden University Press.
  • 2021: Steinmetz Grant for Archaeological Fieldwork, Archaeological Institute of America
  • 2020: Donald Atkinson Grant for Archaeological Fieldwork, Roman Society of London