Prof. Alison Cooley

I am interested in all aspects of the Roman world - social, cultural, economic, and political. My research focuses upon Roman Italy and the early Principate in particular, and upon the use of inscriptions in both ancient and modern times. I enjoy the interchange of ideas between teaching and researching. In 2009, I produced a new edition and commentary of the Res Gestae divi Augusti, and in 2012 The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy. A new edition of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook appeared in 2014, and the edited volume, A Companion to Roman Italy (Blackwell-Wiley) in 2016. I regularly prepare the section on 'Bretagne' for Annee Epigraphique. I am currently working on an edition and commentary of the senatus consultum de Cn Pisone patre.

From Oct 2013- Dec 2017, I was Principal Investigator on the Ashmolean Latin Inscriptions Project, funded by the AHRC. I am a member of the British Epigraphy Society, and am on the advisory board for the research projects 'Materiality and meaning in Greek festival culture of the Roman Imperial period' (PI Zahra Newby), Leverhulme Research Grant 2017-2020 and 'Connectivity and competition: multilingualism in Ancient Italy 800-200 BC' (PI Katherine McDonald), AHRC Leadership Fellowship, 2018-2020. I have served on the Council of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies for two three-year periods, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Roman Studies 2013-2018, whilst also taking on shared responsibility for Papers of the British School at Rome from 2017. I have acted as Honorary Publications Officer for the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents in Oxford since the Centre's inception in 1997, and I am joint series editor (with Andrew Meadows) of the Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents, published by Oxford University Press. I have been a Faculty Member for the British School at Rome from 2014.