Bailey Benson
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Bailey Benson graduated with honors from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in Classical Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Art. During her junior year she studied abroad at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome.
Bailey is interested in Roman urbanism and city planning, specifically that which is found in Roman Asia Minor and Roman North Africa. Within this field she is interested in the relationship found between texts and the archaeological record, how architecture affected people’s experience of the city, and the concept of how the citizens constructed a collective identity through the design of and architecture found within their cities.
For the past three years Bailey has participated in the Gabii Project, a University of Michigan sponsored excavation in central Italy. She has also worked in a ceramics lab, as well as a cast and mold production lab. Currently, Bailey is an intern with the University of Pennsylvania’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology where she is working with the ceramics from the Ban Chiang Project.
