Reader in Archaeology and Ancient History

Subject: Roman Archaeology

MA, PhD (Sydney) FSA

Tel: 0116 252 2735

Email: pma9@le.ac.uk

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

She has taught ancient history and archaeology at the University of Sydney, the Australian National University, and the University of Sheffield. She held an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship and a U2000 Research Fellowship at the University of Sydney and an Australian Research Council Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship at the Australian National University. She has also 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 joined the Archaeology and Ancient History team at Leicester in 2006. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

Research

• Research interests
• Publications

Teaching

Postgraduate teaching

Course coordinator: MA/PG diploma in the Classical Mediterranean (Campus-based and Distance Learning)

• AR7052 ‘Classical Antiquity: Traditions, Approaches and Debates

Undergraduate teaching

• AH3060 ‘Households and Domesticity in the Ancient World’ (camp-based)
• AH3350 ‘Household Archaeology’ (distance learning)

Selected Recent Publications

Monographs

The Insula of the Menander in Pompeii III: The finds, a contextual study. Oxford: Clarendon Press, (2006). ISBN 0-19-926312-4

Pompeii households: Analysis of the material culture, Monograph 42. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA (2004). ISBN 0-917956-96-6

The Casa della Caccia Antica, Häuser in Pompeji 11. Hirmer, Munich (2002). (Main author with Frank Sear). ISBN 3-7774-8820-8

Edited volumes

Dealing with Legacy Data, themed volume of Internet Archaeology 24-25 (2008) Online version

The Archaeology of Household Activities. Routledge: London and New York (1999)