Alice Stevenson (archaeologist)
Alice Stevenson | |
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Occupation | Curator, archaeologist |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Pitt Rivers Museum, Petrie Museum of Egyptology, University College London |
Alice Stevenson is a British archaeologist and museum curator. She is Senior Lecturer in Museum Studies at UCL's Institute of Archaeology and a specialist in Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egyptian archaeology.[1]
Education
Stevenson completed her bachelor's degree in Archaeology and Anthropology from the University of Cambridge in 1998 and followed this with a master's degree in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, completed in 2001. She went on to gain a Master of Philosophy degree in Archaeology degree the University of Cambridge in 2004, followed by a PhD in Archaeology from the same institution in 2006 with a thesis titled The Predynastic Egyptian Cemetery of el-Gerzeh. Mortuary Rituals and Social Identities.[2][3] She became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2014.[2]
Career
Stevenson was Research Fellow at the UCL Institute of Archaeology in 2010. From 2009 to 2012 she worked as a Researcher in World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum.[2] During her time there, she co-edited a book characterising the nature and research potential of the museum's collections celebrating one hundred years of public access to the collections in 2015.[3][4]
Stevenson was Curator of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology from 2013 to 2016 and published an edited volume about the museum titled The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: Characters and Collections in 2015.[5] During her time at the museum, a garment in the museum collection was radiocarbon dated to 3103BC – it was heralded as the 'world's oldest dress'.[6][7]
Stevenson is also a contributor to The Conversation news outlet and has written an article about the sale of archaeological antiquities on the open market.[8]
Selected publications
- Mairs, R., Stevenson, A. (2007). Current Research in Egyptology: 2005 Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Symposium which Took Place at the University of Cambridge, 6–8 January 2005. Oxbow Books Limited.
- Stevenson, A.E. (2009). The Predynastic Egyptian Cemetery of el-Gerzeh. Social Identities and Mortuary Practices. Leuven: Peeters.
- Hicks, D., Stevenson, A.E. (Eds.), (2013). World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization. Oxford: Archaeopress.
- Stevenson, A.E. (2015). The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: Characters and Collections. London, UK: UCL Press.
- Stevenson, A., Libonati, E., Williams, A. (2016). ‘A selection of minor antiquities’: a multi-sited view on collections from excavations in Egypt. World Archaeology, 48 (2), 282–295. doi:10.1080/00438243.2016.1165627
- Stevenson, A.E., Libonati, E., Baines, J. (2017). 'Introduction—object habits: Legacies of fieldwork and the museum'. Museum History Journal, 10 (2), doi:10.1080/19369816.2017.1328780
References
- ↑ "Alice Stevenson". The Conversation. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
- 1 2 3 "Alice Stevenson". UCL Institute of Archaeology. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
- 1 2 Ward, C. (2017). "Interview with Dr. Alice Stevenson". Papers from the Institute of Archaeology. 27 (1).
- ↑ "World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization". Pitt Rivers Museum. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
- ↑ Stevenson, A., ed. (2015). The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: Characters and Collections. UCL Press.
- ↑ Lobell, J. A. (12 December 2016). "World's Oldest Dress". Archaeology. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
- ↑ Stevenson, A. E.; Dee, M. (2016). "Confirmation of the world's oldest woven garment: the Tarkhan dress". Antiquity: a quarterly review of archaeology. 90.
- ↑ Stevenson, Alice (13 July 2017). "Why archaeological antiquities should not be sold on the open market, full stop". The Conversation. Retrieved 4 January 2018.