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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, in press 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
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
E-mail Address: althoma@siue.edu
URL: http://www.siue.edu/~althoma/index.html
Published by: Allison Thomason <althoma@siue.edu