Dr Penelope Allison

Reader in Archaeology and Ancient History

Subject: Roman Archaeology

MA, Ph.D. (Sydney), FSA, FAHA

Tel: 0116 252 2735

Email: pma9@le.ac.uk

Penelope Allison grew up on a sheep farm in North Canterbury, New Zealand. Her undergraduate degree was in Pure Mathematics from the University of Canterbury (New Zealand), and her MA Prelim, MA Honours, and PhD in Archaeology from the University of Sydney. She was a Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome.

She has taught archaeology and ancient history at the University of Sydney, the Australian National University, and the University of Sheffield. She was Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow and a U2000 Research Fellow at  Sydney University, and an Australian Research Council Queen Elizabeth II Fellow at the Australian National University. She has held an Australian Bicentennial fellowship in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, and a visiting fellowship at St John's College, University of Durham. She became a Reader in Archaeology at the Australian National University in 2005. In 2006 she joined the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at Leicester as a 'New Blood Lecturer' and became a Reader in Archaeology and Ancient History in 2007. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities.

Research

• Research interests and projects
• Selected recent publications
• Research students
• Topic for supervision - Household archaeology; Pompeii; Roman art and archaeology; Consumption approaches to Roman artefacts; Space and gender in archaeology; Digital archaeology

Teaching

Postgraduate courses

• AH7360/AR7560 - 'Houses, households and domestic life in the ancient world
• AH7052 - 'Text and Material Culture'

Undergraduate courses

• AH3060 ‘Households and domesticity in the ancient world’ (campus-based)
• AH3550 ‘Households and families in the past’ (distance learning)
• AH3062 'Classical art in context' (campus-based)
• AH2026 'Roman imperialism and its consequences (campus-based)

Administration

Coordinator for Erasmus Student Exchange Programme

Coordinator for School webpages

Further details in full curriculum vitae