Alison E. Cooley
Alison E. Cooley is a British classicist specialising in Latin epigraphy. She is a professor at the University of Warwick, former head of its Department of Classics and Ancient History, and current deputy head. In 2004, she was awarded The Butterworth Memorial Teaching Award. Cooley is the President of the British Epigraphy Society.
Life
Alison E. Cooley is a classicist specialising in Latin epigraphy. She qualified with a Master of Arts and a PhD at St John's College, University of Oxford, with a doctoral thesis titled The role of inscribed monuments in transforming public space at Pompeii and Ostia. She is professor of Roman history at the University of Warwick, former head of its Department of Classics and Ancient History, and current deputy head. In 2004, she was awarded The Butterworth Memorial Teaching Award. Cooley is the President of the British Epigraphy Society. She is the honorary publications officer for the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents at Oxford. From 2013 to 2017 she led an AHRC project, the Ashmolean Latin Inscriptions Project. She has served two three-year terms on the Council of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies.Writing
Cooley has published widely on epigraphy as well as organising conferences on the topic. Bohdan Chernyukh, writing in Censurae Librorum, praised the "meticulous analysis and description of the inscriptions" in Cooley's Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy. The Bryn Mawr Classical Review said of the second edition of her sourcebook on Pompeii and Herculaneum that it was "an essential resource for anyone researching or teaching about Pompeii".Selected publications
- Pompeii: A Sourcebook, Routledge, London, 2004.
- Res Gestae divi Augusti, edition with introduction, translation, and commentary. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009.
- "History and Inscriptions, Rome" in The Oxford History of Historical Writing, Vol. 1, eds. A. Feldherr & G. Hardy. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011, pp. 244–64.
- The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012.
- The Senatus consultum de Cn. Pisone Patre, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2023. ISBN 9781108714563