Patricia "Patty" Anne Baker is an American archaeologist and academic. She is Head of the Department of Classical & Archaeological Studies at the

University of Kent The University of Kent (formerly the University of Kent at Canterbury, abbreviated as UKC) is a Collegiate university, collegiate public university, public research university based in Kent, United Kingdom. The university was granted its roya ...

and Senior Lecturer in Classical & Archaeological Studies.

Career

Baker has MA degrees in Classics from

Florida State University Florida State University (FSU or Florida State) is a Public university, public research university in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida and a preeminent university in the s ...

and in Roman Frontier Studies from

Newcastle University Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It has overseas campuses in Singapore and Malaysia. The university is a red brick university and a mem ...

. She gained her PhD in Classics in 2000, also from Newcastle University, on the topic of 'Medical Care for the Roman Army on the Rhine, Danube and British Frontiers from the First through Third Centuries AD' Baker is the series editor of the 'Medicine and the Body in Antiquity' series, published by Routledge. She was elected as a Fellow of the

Society of Antiquaries of London The Society of Antiquaries of London (SAL) is a learned society of historians and archaeologists in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1707, received its royal charter in 1751 and is a Charitable organization, registered charity. It is based ...

on 16 February 2006.

Select publications

*Baker, P. A., Nijdam, H., and van't Land, K. (eds) 2011. ''Medicine and Space: Body, Surroundings and Borders in Antiquity and the Middle Ages'' (Visualising the Middle Ages 4). Brill, Leiden. *Baker, P. 2013. ''The Archaeology of Medicine in the Greco-Roman World''. New York,

Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press was the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted a letters patent by King Henry VIII in 1534, it was the oldest university press in the world. Cambridge University Press merged with Cambridge Assessme ...

. *Baker, P. 2016. 'Medicine'. In: Millett, M., Revell, L. and Moore, A. (eds). ''The Oxford Handbook of Roman Britain''. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 555-572. *Baker, P. 2017.
Viewing Health: Asclepia in their Natural Settings
. ''Religion in the Roman Empire'' 3, 143-163. *Baker, P. 2018. 'Identifying the connection between Roman Conceptions of ‘Pure Air’ and Physical and Mental Health in Pompeian Gardens (c. 150 BC-AD 79): A Multi-Sensory Approach to Ancient Medicine'. ''

World Archaeology ''World Archaeology'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of archaeology. It was established in 1969 and originally published triannually by Routledge & Kegan Paul. In 2004 it changed to a quarterly publication schedule while ...

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