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'''Penelope Allison''' is Professor of [[Archaeology]] at the [[University of Leicester]]. Also known as "Pim Allison", she has held the [[Professor (highest academic rank)|chair]] since 2015.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/archaeology/people/academics/allison|title=Professor Penelope Allison |publisher= University of Leicester|last=tk74|website=www2.le.ac.uk|accessdate=5 February 2018}}</ref> She is also a [[Fellow]] of the [[Society of Antiquaries of London|Society of Antiquaries]] and an Honorary Fellow of the [[Australian Academy of the Humanities]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ajaonline.org/author/1978|title=Penelope M. Allison |website=American Journal of Archaeology|accessdate=5 February 2018}}</ref>
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'''Penelope Mary "Pim" Allison''' (born 1954) is a New Zealand academic archaeologist specialising in the [[Roman Empire]]. Since 2015, she has been [[Professor (highest academic rank)|professor]] of [[archaeology]] at the [[University of Leicester]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/archaeology/people/academics/allison|title=Professor Penelope Allison |publisher= University of Leicester|last=tk74|website=www2.le.ac.uk|accessdate=5 February 2018}}</ref> She is also a [[Fellow]] of the [[Society of Antiquaries of London|Society of Antiquaries]] and an Honorary Fellow of the [[Australian Academy of the Humanities]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ajaonline.org/author/1978|title=Penelope M. Allison |website=American Journal of Archaeology|date=26 November 2014 |accessdate=5 February 2018}}</ref>


== Life ==
== Life ==
Allison is originally from [[North Canterbury]] in [[New Zealand]]. She grew up on a sheep farm.<ref name=":0"/>
Allison is originally from [[North Canterbury]] in [[New Zealand]]. She grew up on a sheep farm.<ref name=":0"/>


== Career ==
== Career ==
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She specialises in [[Roman Archaeology|Roman]] and [[historical archaeology]] and has particular interests in household archaeology, and gender and space. Many of her publications relate to houses and households in Pompeii, and gender and space in Roman military forts in Germany. She is also interested in [[digital archaeology]] and how archaeological data can be spread digitally.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
She specialises in [[Roman Archaeology|Roman]] and [[historical archaeology]] and has particular interests in household archaeology, and gender and space. Many of her publications relate to houses and households in Pompeii, and gender and space in Roman military forts in Germany. She is also interested in [[digital archaeology]] and how archaeological data can be spread digitally.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

Doctoral students she has supervised include Steven Ellis (now associate professor at the [[University of Cincinnati]]), Katherine Huntley (now associate professor at [[Boise State University]]) and Andrew Birley (currently director of excavations at the [[Vindolanda Trust]]).<ref name=":0" />


== Honors and awards ==
== Honors and awards ==
Allison is a senior fellow of the [[Higher Education Academy]], a fellow of the [[Society of Antiquaries of London]], an honorary fellow of the [[Australian Academy of the Humanities]] and a corresponding member of the [[Archaeological Institute of America]].<ref name=":0" />
Allison is a senior fellow of the [[Higher Education Academy]], a fellow of the [[Society of Antiquaries of London]], an honorary fellow of the [[Australian Academy of the Humanities]] and a corresponding member of the [[Archaeological Institute of America]].<ref name=":0" />


== Research ==
== Research ==
Allison's research focuses on household archaeology as well as gender and space. Her current interests have expanded to encompass households and their activities in the colonial outback in Australia and foodways material culture in the Roman and colonial worlds.<ref name=":0" /> She also has an interest in digital archaeology and the digital dissemination of archaeological data. This last interest can be seen in her numerous open access publications and data, including ''Engendering Roman Military Spaces'' and an online companion to Pompeian households (which includes detailed documentary information on 30 Pompeian houses and their contents, consisting of 865 rooms and more than 16,000 artifacts).
Allison's research focuses on household archaeology as well as gender and space. Her current interests have expanded to encompass households and their activities in the colonial outback in Australia and foodways material culture in the Roman and colonial worlds.<ref name=":0" /> She also has an interest in digital archaeology and the digital dissemination of archaeological data.

She has been involved in several projects: Big Data on the Roman Table (a research network), the Kinchega Archaeological Research Project, the Libarna Household Archaeology Project, People and Spaces in Roman Military Bases, and Pompeian Houses and Households.


== Publications ==
== Publications ==
=== Books ===
=== Books ===
* ''Who came to Tea at the Old Kinchega Homestead?: Tablewares, Teawares and Social Interaction at an Australian Outback Pastoral Homestead'' (Leicester: BAR Publishing, 2020)
* ''[https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue50/index.html] Big Data on the Roman Table: New approaches to tablewares in the Roman world'', co-editor, (Internet Archeology, 2018)
* ''[https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/archaeology/classical-archaeology/people-and-spaces-roman-military-bases People and Space in Roman Military Bases]'' (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
* ''[https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/archaeology/classical-archaeology/people-and-spaces-roman-military-bases People and Space in Roman Military Bases]'' (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
* ''The Insula of the Menander in Pompeii III: The finds, a contextual study'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006)
* ''The Insula of the Menander in Pompeii III: The finds, a contextual study'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006)
* ''Pompeian households: analysis of the material culture'', Monograph 42 (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA, 2004)
* ''Pompeian households: analysis of the material culture'', Monograph 42 (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA, 2004)
* together with F Sear: ''The Casa della Caccia Antica'' (Häuser in Pompeji 11). Munich: Hirmer (2002).


=== Edited books ===
=== Edited books ===
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=== Other publications ===
=== Other publications ===
* ''Roman household organization'', in S. Crawford, D. M. Hadley and G. Shepherd, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Childhood, 165–178. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2018)
* "Naming tablewares: using the artefactual evidence to investigate eating and drinking practices across the Roman world", in E. Minchin and H. Jackson (eds) ''Festschrift for Graeme Clarke'', SIMA - Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, 186-198. Uppsala: Astrom editions (2017)
* ''Meals and the Roman military'', in T. Ivleva, J. de Bruin, M. Driessen (eds), Embracing the Provinces: Society and Material Culture of the Roman Frontier Regions. Essays in honour of Dr. Carol van Driel Murray. Oxford: Oxbow Books (2018)
* "Everyday foodways and social connections in Pompeian houses", in L. Steel and K. Zinn, eds, ''Exploring the materiality of food “stuffs”: Transformations, symbolic consumption and embodiments'', 152-186. London and New York: Routledge (Taylor and Francis, 2016).
* "Naming tablewares: using the artefactual evidence to investigate eating and drinking practices across the Roman world", in E. Minchin and H. Jackson (eds) ''Festschrift for Graeme Clarke'', SIMA - Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, 186–198. Uppsala: Astrom editions (2017)
* "Everyday foodways and social connections in Pompeian houses", in L. Steel and K. Zinn, eds, ''Exploring the materiality of food “stuffs”: Transformations, symbolic consumption and embodiments'', 152–186. London and New York: Routledge (Taylor and Francis, 2016).
* [https://www.ajaonline.org/forum/1944 "Characterising Roman artefacts for investigating gendered practices in contexts without sexed bodies"], ''American Journal of Archaeology'' '''119'''.1 (2015)
* [https://www.ajaonline.org/forum/1944 "Characterising Roman artefacts for investigating gendered practices in contexts without sexed bodies"], ''American Journal of Archaeology'' '''119'''.1 (2015)
* "Artefacts and people on the Roman frontier", in D. J. Breeze, R.H. Jones, and I. A. Oltean, eds, ''Understanding Roman frontiers: A celebration for Professor Bill Hanson'', 121-134. Edinburgh: John MacDonald (2015).
* "Artefacts and people on the Roman frontier", in D. J. Breeze, R.H. Jones, and I. A. Oltean, eds, ''Understanding Roman frontiers: A celebration for Professor Bill Hanson'', 121–134. Edinburgh: John MacDonald (2015).
* "Conversations and material memories: insights into outback domestic life at the Old Kinchega Homestead", ''Historical Archaeology'' '''48'''.1 (2014): 87-104.
* "Conversations and material memories: insights into outback domestic life at the Old Kinchega Homestead", ''Historical Archaeology'' '''48'''.1 (2014): 87–104.
* "Soldiers' families in the early Roman Empire", in B. Rawson, ed., ''Families in the Greek and Roman worlds: a companion'', 161-182. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell (2011)
* "Soldiers' families in the early Roman Empire", in B. Rawson, ed., ''Families in the Greek and Roman worlds: a companion'', 161–182. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell (2011)
* "Understanding Pompeian household practices through their material culture", ''FACTA: A Journal of Roman material culture studies'' '''3''' (2009): 11-32
* "Understanding Pompeian household practices through their material culture", ''FACTA: A Journal of Roman material culture studies'' '''3''' (2009): 11-32
* "Measuring Women's Influence on Roman Military Life: using GIS on published excavation reports from the German Frontier", ''Internet Archaeology'' '''24''' (2008) {{Doi|10.11141/ia.24.5}}
* "Mapping for gender: interpreting artefact distribution in Roman military forts in Germany", ''Archaeological Dialogues'' '''13'''.1 (2006): 1-48
* "Mapping for gender: interpreting artefact distribution in Roman military forts in Germany", ''Archaeological Dialogues'' '''13'''.1 (2006): 1-48
* "[http://www.stoa.org/pompeianhouseholds Pompeian households]", on-line companion to Monograph 42, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA (The Stoa: A Consortium for Electronic Publication in the Humanities).
* "[http://www.stoa.org/pompeianhouseholds Pompeian households]", on-line companion to Monograph 42, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA (The Stoa: A Consortium for Electronic Publication in the Humanities).
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* [https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AAllison%2C+Penelope+M.&qt=hot_author Penelope Allison on Worldcat]
* [https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AAllison%2C+Penelope+M.&qt=hot_author Penelope Allison on Worldcat]
*[https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/archaeology/people/academics/allison Penelope Allison at the University of Leicester]
*[https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/archaeology/people/academics/allison Penelope Allison at the University of Leicester]



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Latest revision as of 16:13, 26 November 2024

Penelope Allison
Born
Penelope Mary Allison[1]

1954[1]
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Canterbury (BA)
University of Sydney (MA, PhD)
Academic work
DisciplineArchaeology
Sub-disciplineRoman archaeology, historical archaeology, classical art, gender in archaeology
InstitutionsUniversity of Leicester

Penelope Mary "Pim" Allison (born 1954) is a New Zealand academic archaeologist specialising in the Roman Empire. Since 2015, she has been professor of archaeology at the University of Leicester.[2] She is also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.[3]

Life

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Allison is originally from North Canterbury in New Zealand. She grew up on a sheep farm.[2]

Career

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Allison received an undergraduate degree in pure mathematics from the University of Canterbury, and her MA Honours and her doctorate in archaeology from the University of Sydney.[2] She was a scholar at the British School in Rome, and has taught archaeology and ancient history at the University of Sydney, the Australian National University and the University of Sheffield. She has held several research fellowships, including a fellowship in the Classics faculty at the University of Cambridge and fellowships at the University of Sydney.[4][5] She joined the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Leicester as a lecturer in 2006.[2]

She specialises in Roman and historical archaeology and has particular interests in household archaeology, and gender and space. Many of her publications relate to houses and households in Pompeii, and gender and space in Roman military forts in Germany. She is also interested in digital archaeology and how archaeological data can be spread digitally.[2][4]

Honors and awards

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Allison is a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, an honorary fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a corresponding member of the Archaeological Institute of America.[2]

Research

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Allison's research focuses on household archaeology as well as gender and space. Her current interests have expanded to encompass households and their activities in the colonial outback in Australia and foodways material culture in the Roman and colonial worlds.[2] She also has an interest in digital archaeology and the digital dissemination of archaeological data.

Publications

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Books

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  • Who came to Tea at the Old Kinchega Homestead?: Tablewares, Teawares and Social Interaction at an Australian Outback Pastoral Homestead (Leicester: BAR Publishing, 2020)
  • [1] Big Data on the Roman Table: New approaches to tablewares in the Roman world, co-editor, (Internet Archeology, 2018)
  • People and Space in Roman Military Bases (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
  • The Insula of the Menander in Pompeii III: The finds, a contextual study (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006)
  • Pompeian households: analysis of the material culture, Monograph 42 (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA, 2004)
  • together with F Sear: The Casa della Caccia Antica (Häuser in Pompeji 11). Munich: Hirmer (2002).

Edited books

[edit]

Other publications

[edit]
  • Roman household organization, in S. Crawford, D. M. Hadley and G. Shepherd, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Childhood, 165–178. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2018)
  • Meals and the Roman military, in T. Ivleva, J. de Bruin, M. Driessen (eds), Embracing the Provinces: Society and Material Culture of the Roman Frontier Regions. Essays in honour of Dr. Carol van Driel Murray. Oxford: Oxbow Books (2018)
  • "Naming tablewares: using the artefactual evidence to investigate eating and drinking practices across the Roman world", in E. Minchin and H. Jackson (eds) Festschrift for Graeme Clarke, SIMA - Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, 186–198. Uppsala: Astrom editions (2017)
  • "Everyday foodways and social connections in Pompeian houses", in L. Steel and K. Zinn, eds, Exploring the materiality of food “stuffs”: Transformations, symbolic consumption and embodiments, 152–186. London and New York: Routledge (Taylor and Francis, 2016).
  • "Characterising Roman artefacts for investigating gendered practices in contexts without sexed bodies", American Journal of Archaeology 119.1 (2015)
  • "Artefacts and people on the Roman frontier", in D. J. Breeze, R.H. Jones, and I. A. Oltean, eds, Understanding Roman frontiers: A celebration for Professor Bill Hanson, 121–134. Edinburgh: John MacDonald (2015).
  • "Conversations and material memories: insights into outback domestic life at the Old Kinchega Homestead", Historical Archaeology 48.1 (2014): 87–104.
  • "Soldiers' families in the early Roman Empire", in B. Rawson, ed., Families in the Greek and Roman worlds: a companion, 161–182. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell (2011)
  • "Understanding Pompeian household practices through their material culture", FACTA: A Journal of Roman material culture studies 3 (2009): 11-32
  • "Measuring Women's Influence on Roman Military Life: using GIS on published excavation reports from the German Frontier", Internet Archaeology 24 (2008) doi:10.11141/ia.24.5
  • "Mapping for gender: interpreting artefact distribution in Roman military forts in Germany", Archaeological Dialogues 13.1 (2006): 1-48
  • "Pompeian households", on-line companion to Monograph 42, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA (The Stoa: A Consortium for Electronic Publication in the Humanities).
  • "Artefact distribution and spatial function in Pompeian houses", in B. Rawson and P. Weaver, eds, The Roman family in Italy: status, sentiment and space, 321-354 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1997)
  • "Roman households: an archaeological perspective", in H. Parkins, ed., Roman urbanism: beyond the consumer city, 112-146 (Routledge, London and New York, 1997)
  • "Why do excavation reports have finds' catalogues?", in C. G. Cumberpatch and P.W. Blinkhorn, eds, Not so much a pot, more a way of life, 77- 84 (Oxbow Books, Oxford, 1997)
  • "On-going seismic activity and its effect on living conditions in Pompeii in the last decades", in T. Fröhlich and L. Jacobelli, eds, Archäologie und Seismologie: La regione vesuviana dal 62 al 79 d.C.: problemi archeologici e sismologici (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom, Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, Osservatorio Vesuviano), 183-190 (Biering and Brinkman, Munich, 1995)

References

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  1. ^ a b "Allison, Penelope M., 1954-" at Library of Congress Linked Data Service.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g tk74. "Professor Penelope Allison". www2.le.ac.uk. University of Leicester. Retrieved 5 February 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ "Penelope M. Allison". American Journal of Archaeology. 26 November 2014. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  4. ^ a b "Dr Penelope Allison". University of Leicester. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  5. ^ Bloomsbury.com. "Colouring the Past". Bloomsbury Publishing. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
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