معرفی
Dr Julian Baker serves as Assistant Keeper of Medieval and Modern Coins at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, where he has worked since 2004. As an Ordinary Fellow, he curates Western tradition coins from the 5th century CE to present, including medals and tokens belonging to the collegiate university. His institutional roles encompass collection preservation, exhibition organization, scholarly access facilitation, and digitization initiatives.
Specializing in medieval monetary systems, Baker's research reconstructs monetization patterns across Anatolia, the Balkans, and the central Mediterranean during the 11th-15th centuries. His geographical expertise spans Calabria, Puglia, the Peloponnese, central Greece, Epiros, southern Albania, Greek/Turkish Thrace, and western Turkey. He maintains active research on Anglo-Saxon to Tudor English coinage through Ashmolean hoard collections.
Academic contributions include lecturing on medieval coins for the History Faculty, teaching numismatics for the MSt/MPhil in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, and supervising graduate students. His scholarly output focuses on Sylloge-style publications of Aksumite and Italian coin collections, alongside extensive museum-based research in Turkey, Greece, Albania, and Italy. International fellowships at institutions in Istanbul, Athens, Rome, Princeton, and Washington D.C. support his cross-border material investigations.
Operational responsibilities involve managing the Money Gallery's coin handling sessions and contributing to the museum's digitization projects. His work bridges archaeological evidence with economic, demographic, and statecraft analyses to illuminate medieval societal structures through monetary systems.
