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 (until April 2025). In 2004, she was awarded The Butterworth Memorial Teaching Award.^[1] Cooley is the President of the British Epigraphy Society.^[1]

Alison E. Cooley
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Academic work
Discipline	Classics
Sub-discipline	Epigraphy
Institutions	University of Warwick

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).^[2] The Bryn Mawr Classical Review said of the second edition (2014) of her sourcebook on Pompeii and Herculaneum that it was "an essential resource for anyone researching or teaching about Pompeii".^[3]

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. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011, pp. 244–64.
• The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012. ISBN 9780521549547
• The Senatus consultum de Cn. Pisone Patre, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2023. ISBN 9781108714563

References

1. Prof Alison Cooley. Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Warwick, 13 January 2025. Retrieved 13 January 2025. Archived here.
2. Bohdan Chernyukh, review of Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy, in Censurae Librorum, pp. 128-129.
3. Alison E. Cooley, M.G.L. Cooley, Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook. Review by Jacqueline Frost DiBiasie, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2014.08.03.