Melissa A. Bailey

4th Year doctoral student in Classical Archaeology
BA in Art History and French Studies, Rice University

Melissa earned her BA from Rice University in 2004 in Art History and French Studies and then completed the Post-Baccalaureate Program in Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include the economy and society of the late antique eastern Mediterranean, materiality, money and systems of exchange, the everyday use and social implications of technology, and relations between knowledge and visuality. She has participated in excavations in Rome and near Anagni, Italy.