
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)
Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research
- Benton, J. T. " LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION" $13,900. Higher Education. July 2024 - July 2025
- Benton, J. T. "Rust Archaeology Fieldwork Grant" $6,700. Private. May 10, 2024 - July 15, 2024
Articles
- Benton, J. T. (2024). Punitive labor and enslavement in the Roman bakery Authors. World Archaeology , pp. 1-13.
- 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.
Conference Proceeding
- (2023). Economies of Scale: Late-Antique Bakeries outside Large Urban Centers. Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World – Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Cologne/Bonn 2018 (pp. 635-648) Heidelberg: Propylaeum.
- 2021: Steinmetz Grant for Archaeological Fieldwork, Archaeological Institute of America
- 2020: Donald Atkinson Grant for Archaeological Fieldwork, Roman Society of London