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Baird, Jennifer and Rothe, U. (2024) Beneath the headdress: dress and the women of Dura-Europos. Eastern Christian Art , ISSN 1781-0930. (Submitted)

Baird, Jennifer (2024) The gods of Dura-Europos. Minerva 2023 , pp. 13-19. ISSN 0957-7718.

Baird, Jennifer (2024) Reading field diaries against the grain: the notable and the absent in Syrian archaeology. Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies 12 (1), pp. 20-34. ISSN 21663548.

Baird, J. A. and Kamash, Zena and Raja, Rubina (2023) Knowing Palmyra: mandatory production of archaeological knowledge. Journal of Social Archaeology 23 (1), pp. 76-98. ISSN 1469-6053.

Baird, Jennifer (2020) The ruination of Dura-Europos. Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal 3 (1), p. 2. ISSN 2515-2289.

Baird, Jennifer and Kamash, Z. (2019) Remembering Roman Syria: valuing Tadmor-Palmyra from ‘Discovery’ to destruction. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 62 (1), pp. 1-29. ISSN 0076-0730.

Baird, Jennifer (2018) In small scratches forgotten: perspectives on graffiti from Dura-Europos. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 131 (1), pp. 17-33. ISSN 0040-7518.

Baird, Jennifer A. (2017) Framing the past: situating the archaeological in photographs. Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 26 (2), pp. 165-186. ISSN 1356-9325.

Baird, Jennifer A. (2015) On reading the material culture of ancient sexual labour. Helios 42 (1), pp. 163-175. ISSN 0160-0923.

Baird, Jennifer A. and McFadyen, Lesley (2014) Towards an archaeology of archaeological archives. Archaeological Review from Cambridge 29 (2), ISSN 0261-4332.

Baird, Jennifer A. (2013) Re-excavating the houses of Dura-Europos. Journal of Roman Archaeology 25 , pp. 146-170. ISSN 1047-7594.

Baird, Jennifer A. (2011) Photographing Dura-Europos, 1928–1937: an archaeology of the archive. American Journal of Archaeology 115 (3), pp. 427-446. ISSN 0002-9114.

Book Review

Baird, Jennifer (2025) Syrian Marbles. Review of Koçak (M.), Kreikenbom (D.) (edd.) Sculptures from Roman Syria II. The Greek, Roman and Byzantine Marble Statuary. In two volumes. Pp. xvi + 708, ills, maps, pls. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Cased, £154.50, €169.95, US$195.99. ISBN: 978-3-11-071149-3. [Book Review] (In Press)

Baird, J.A. (2022) Danish diaries of Palmyra. [Book Review]

Baird, Jennifer (2022) Palmyra: city of churches and mosques. [Book Review] (In Press)

Book Section

Baird, Jennifer and Almohamad, Adnan and Alsaleh, A. (2025) The ruins that remain: remembering Dura-Europos in Salhiyeh. In: Brody, L. and Hunnell Chen, A. (eds.) Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols. ISBN 97825036160491. (In Press)

Baird, Jennifer and Kamash, Z. and Raja, R. (2024) The Sanctuary of Bel in perspective: selective destructions, selective memories, selective realities. In: Raja, R. (ed.) Palmyra in Perspective. Studies in Palmyrene Archaeology and History 11. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, pp. 231-248. ISBN 9782503610320.

Baird, Jennifer (2023) The significance of household cisterns at Roman Dura-Europos. In: Bonnie, R. and Klingborg, P. (eds.) Water in Ancient Mediterranean Households. Global Perspectives in Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology. Routledge. ISBN 9781032213972.

Baird, Jennifer and von Reden, Sitta (2023) A caravan city at the edge of empire? The economy of Dura-Europos in the Syrian desert. In: von Reden, S. (ed.) Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies. De Gruyter, pp. 535-558. ISBN 9783110604641.

Baird, Jennifer (2023) Unclassified: structured silences in the archaeological archive. In: Raja, R. (ed.) Shaping Archaeological Archives: Dialogues between Fieldwork, Museum Collection, and Private Archives. Archaeological Archives. Brepols, pp. 19-32. ISBN 9782503605647.

Baird, Jennifer A. (2022) The site of the archive: responsibility and rhetoric in archival archaeology of the Middle East. In: Boubou, O. and Miranda, A.C. and Raja, R. (eds.) Archival Historiographies - The Impact of Twentieth-Century Legacy Data on Archaeological Investigations. Archive Archaeology. Brepols Publishers. ISBN https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503600185-1.

Meyer, Caspar (2022) Domesticating the ancient house: the archaeology of a false analogy. In: Baird, Jennifer and Pudsey, April (eds.) Housing in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Material and Textual Approaches. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108845267. (In Press)

Baird, Jennifer (2021) Dura-Europos. In: Kaizer, T. (ed.) A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Wiley, pp. 295-304. ISBN 9781444339826.

Baird, Jennifer (2019) Exposing archaeology: time in archaeological photographs. In: McFadyen, Lesley and Hicks, D. (eds.) Archaeology and Photography: Time, Objectivity and Archive. London, UK: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781350029682. (In Press)

Baird, Jennifer A. (2017) Everyday life in Roman Dura-Europos: the evidence of dress practices. In: Kaizer, T. (ed.) Religion, Society and Culture at Dura-Europos. Yale Classical Studies. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107123793.

Baird, Jennifer and Taylor, C. (2016) Ancient Graffiti. In: Ross, J.I. (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art. New York, U.S.: Routledge, pp. 17-26. ISBN 9780367335977.

Baird, Jennifer A. and Taylor, C. (2016) Ancient graffiti. In: Ross, J. (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, pp. 17-26. ISBN 9781138792937.

Baird, Jennifer (2015) Private graffiti? Scratching the walls of houses at Dura-Europos. In: Benefiel, R. and Keegan, P. (eds.) Inscriptions in the Private Sphere in the Greco-Roman World. Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy 7. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, pp. 11-31. ISBN 9789004307124.

Baird, Jennifer A. (2013) Religion and ritual. In: Clark, P. (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 181-196. ISBN 9780199589531.

Baird, Jennifer A. (2012) Dura deserta: the death and afterlife of Dura-Europos. In: Christie, N. and Augenti, A. (eds.) Vrbes Extinctae: Archaeologies of Abandoned Classical Towns. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, pp. 307-330. ISBN 9780754665625.

Baird, Jennifer A. (2012) Constructing Dura-Europos, ancient and modern. In: Lafrenz Samuels, K. and Totten, D. (eds.) Making Roman Places, Past and Present. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplemental Series 89. Rhode Island, U.S.: Journal of Roman Archaeology, pp. 34-49. ISBN 9781887829892.

Baird, Jennifer A. (2012) Graffiti at Dura-Europos: a contextual approach. In: Baird, Jennifer A. and Taylor, C. (eds.) Ancient Graffiti in Context. New York, USA: Routledge, pp. 49-68. ISBN 9780415653527.

Baird, Jennifer A. (2012) L’habitat d’époque romaine à Europos-Doura: replacer les artéfacts en contexte. In: Leriche, P. and Coqueugniot, G. and De Pontbriand, S. (eds.) Europos-Doura Varia 1. Bibliothèque archéologique et historique 1 198. Beyrouth: Institut français du Proche-Orient, pp. 231-240. ISBN 9782351593752.

James, S. and Baird, Jennifer A. and Strutt, K. (2012) Magnetometry survey of Dura’s Roman military base and vicinity. In: Leriche, P. and Coqueugniot, G. and De Pontbriand, S. (eds.) Europos-Doura Varia 1. Bibliothèque archéologique et historique 1 198. Beyrouth: Institut français du Proche-Orient, pp. 111-116. ISBN 9782351593752.

Baird, Jennifer A. (2011) The Houses of Dura-Europos: Archaeology, Archive, and Assemblage. In: Hoffman, G. and Brody, L. (eds.) Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity. Boston, U.S.: McMullan Museum, pp. 235-250.

Baird, Jennifer A. and Taylor, C. (2010) Ancient graffiti in context: introduction. In: Baird, Jennifer A. and Taylor, C. (eds.) Ancient Graffiti In Context. Routledge Studies in Ancient History. New York: Routledge, pp. 1-19. ISBN 9780415878890.

Baird, Jennifer A. (2010) The graffiti of Dura-Europos: a contextual approach. In: Baird, Jennifer A. and Taylor, C. (eds.) Ancient Graffiti in Context. Routledge Studies in Ancient History. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415878890.

Baird, Jennifer A. (2010) City: Roman urbanism. In: Gagarin, M. (ed.) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 161-165. ISBN 9780195170726.

Baird, Jennifer A. (2007) Shopping, eating and drinking at Dura-Europos: reconstructing contexts. In: Lavan, L. and Swift, E. and Putzeys, T. (eds.) Objects In Context, Objects In Use: Material Spatiality In Late Antiquity. Late Antique Archaeology 5. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, pp. 413-437. ISBN 9789004165502.

Baird, Jennifer A. (2007) The bizarre bazaar: early excavations in the Roman East and problems of nomenclature. In: Croxford, B. and Ray, N. and Roth, R. and White, N. (eds.) TRAC '06: Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference Proceedings. Oxford, UK: Oxbow Books, pp. 34-42. ISBN 9781842172643.

Book

Baird, Jennifer and Pudsey, April, eds. (2022) Housing in the ancient Mediterranean world: material and textual approaches. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108845267. (In Press)

Baird, Jennifer (2018) Dura-Europos. Archaeological Histories. London, UK: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781472530875.

Baird, Jennifer A. (2014) The inner lives of ancient houses: an archaeology of Dura-Europos. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199687657.

Baird, Jennifer A. and Taylor, C., eds. (2010) Ancient graffiti in context. Routledge Studies in Ancient History. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415878890.