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Allison Thomason

Anthony Cheeseboro
Allison Thomason
Associate Professor

Ancient World
Office Phone: 618-650-3685

Location: Peck Hall, Rm. 1214
E-mail: althoma@siue.edu

Education

Ph.D., Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, 1999

M.A. University of Chicago, 1993

B.A. Brown University, 1991

Research Interests

Mesopotamia, Neo-Assyrian empire, art historical method and theory, collecting and museum studies, imperialism and exoticism

Publications

"Representations of the North Syrian Landscape in Neo-Assyrian Art", Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 323, August 2001: 63-96.

"Conceptions of the Material World at Nineveh", Iraq 66, December, 2004.

Luxury and Legitimation:  Royal Collecting in Ancient Mesopotamia (London:  Ashgate,  2005).

Courses Taught Regularly

History 111b, Introduction to the History of Western Civilization, 1815-Present

History 112a, World History, Prehistory-1500

History 113, Civilizations of the Ancient World

History 302, Ancient Egypt

History 304, Ancient Greece

History 403, Ancient Mesopotamia

Art and Ideology in the Ancient World

History 500:  Graduate Seminar on Orientalism

Interdisciplinary Studies/Women's Studies 352, Women in the Ancient World

SIU Travel-Study Trips to Egypt and Greece (Ancient World Experiences)

Interesting Links

SIUE Department of Historical Studies

SIUE Library

Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature

ABZU - General web page and search engine for Mesopotamia and Egypt

DIOTIMA- Focuses on gender and ancient history

The British Museum - National museum in London, Mesopotamian objects in its collection

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