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Dr. Bailey Young is a graduate of Williams College, received a Ph.D. in 1975 from the University of Pennsylvania, and studied Merovingian archaeology at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. He held visiting appointments at the Universities of Paris XII and Lille III, Loyola University of Chicago and Assumption College (Worcester, MA) before joining the Eastern Illinois University history department in 1994. Since 1974 he has excavated medieval sites in France and Belgium; in 1998, he helped to launch the Summer Archaeology Program in Belgium. In 2012 Dr. Young received the Distinguished Faculty Award. |
