Reader in Archaeology and Ancient History

Subject: Roman Archaeology

MA, PhD (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. She did her undergraduate degree in Pure Mathematics at the University of Canterbury (New Zealand), and an MA Prelim,  MA Honours, and 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 became a Reader in Archaeology at the Australian National University in 2005. She joined the Archaeology and Ancient History team at Leicester in 2006 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

Household archaeology, consumption approaches to material culture, space and gender in Roman domestic and military spheres; food and socio-spatial relations in the Roman world; digital archaeology.

Past projects: Casa della Caccia Antica in Pompeii,  Pompeian Households, Insula of the Menander in Pompeii, Engendering Roman Military Spaces.

Current projects: Kinchega Archaeological Research Project, Food and Social Connectedness: Material Culture and Socio-spatial Relations around Eating and Drinking in the Roman world

• Publications

Teaching

Postgraduate teaching

Course coordinator: MA/PG diploma in the Classical Mediterranean (campus-based and distance-learning)

• AH7360/AR7560 - 'Houses, households and domestic life in the ancient world
• AH7052 - 'Classical antiquity: traditions, approaches and debates

Undergraduate teaching

• AH2026 'Roman imperialism and its consequences (campus-based)
• AH3060 ‘Households and domesticity in the ancient world’ (campus-based)
• AH3350 ‘Households and families in the past’ (distance learning)
• AH3062 'Classical art in context' (campus-based)

Recent Books and On-line Resources

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)

On-line resources

Engendering Roman Military Spaces, data and interactive GIS maps (2009). Archaeological Data Service ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/archive/milspace_leic_2008/.

The Insula of the Menander in Pompeii III: The Finds, a Contextual Study. Companion website of artefact catalogue (2008). The Stoa: A Consortium for Electronic Publication in the Humanities – www.stoa.org/menanderinsula/

Pompeian households, on-line companion to Monograph 42, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA (2004). The Stoa: A Consortium for Electronic Publication in the Humanities – www.stoa.org/pompeianhouseholds/

The Kinchega Archaeological Research Project: Survey of the Old Kinchega Homestead 1998. (Report for Cultural Heritage Division, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service).  ww.arts.usyd.edu.au/research_projects/kinchega/