Alison E. Cooley is a Britishclassicist specialising in Latinepigraphy. She is a professor at theUniversity of Warwick, former head of its Department of Classics and Ancient History, and current deputy head (until April 2025). In 2004, she was awardedThe Butterworth Memorial Teaching Award. Cooley is the President of theBritish Epigraphy Society.

Alison E. Cooley is a classicist specialising in Latinepigraphy. She qualified with a Master of Arts and a PhD atSt John's College, University of Oxford, with a doctoral thesis titledThe role of inscribed monuments in transforming public space at Pompeii and Ostia.^[1] She is professor of Roman history at theUniversity of Warwick, former head of its Department of Classics and Ancient History, and current deputy head (until April 2025). In 2004, she was awardedThe Butterworth Memorial Teaching Award.^[1][2] Cooley is the President of theBritish Epigraphy Society.^[1] She is the honorary publications officer for the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents (CSAD) at Oxford.^[3] From 2013 to 2017 she led an AHRC project, the Ashmolean Latin Inscriptions Project.^[3] She has served two three-year terms on the Council of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies.^[3]

Cooley has published widely on epigraphy as well as organising conferences on the topic. Bohdan Chernyukh, writing inCensurae Librorum, praised the "meticulous analysis and description of the inscriptions" in Cooley'sCambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (2012).^[4] TheBryn Mawr Classical Review said of the second edition (2014) of her sourcebook onPompeii andHerculaneum that it was "an essential resource for anyone researching or teaching about Pompeii".^[5]

• Pompeii: A Sourcebook, Routledge, London, 2004. (with M.G.L. Cooley) (Second edition 2014 asPompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook)
• Res Gestae divi Augusti, edition with introduction, translation, and commentary. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009.
• "History and Inscriptions, Rome" inThe 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

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