Alison E. Cooley is a British

classicist Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

specialising in Latin

epigraphy Epigraphy () is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the wr ...

. She is a professor at the

University of Warwick The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands (county), West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded i ...

and former head of its Department of Classics and Ancient History. In 2004, she was awarded ''The Butterworth Memorial Teaching Award''.Dr Alison Cooley
Department of Classics and Ancient History,

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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'' (2012). The ''

Bryn Mawr Classical Review ''Bryn Mawr Classical Review'' (''BMCR'') is an open access journal founded in 1990. It publishes reviews of current scholarly work in the field of classical studies including classical archaeology.Pompeii Pompeii (, ) was an ancient city located in what is now the ''comune'' of Pompei near Naples in the Campania region of Italy. Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area (e.g. at Boscoreale, Stabiae), was buried ...

and

Herculaneum Herculaneum (; Neapolitan and it, Ercolano) was an ancient town, located in the modern-day ''comune'' of Ercolano, Campania, Italy. Herculaneum was buried under volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Like the nea ...

that it was "an essential resource for anyone researching or teaching about Pompeii".Alison E. Cooley, M.G.L. Cooley, ''Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook''.
Review by Jacqueline Frost DiBiasie, ''Bryn Mawr Classical Review'' 2014.08.03.

Selected publications

*''Pompeii: A Sourcebook'', Routledge, London, 2004. (with M.G.L. Cooley) (Second edition 2014 as ''Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook'') *''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.

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, Oxford, 2011, pp. 244–64. *''The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy'',

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, Cambridge, 2012.

References

Living people Academics of the University of Warwick Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of St John's College, Oxford {{England-academic-bio-stub