<h2>Allison Thomason</h2><p></p><table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <table bgcolor="#000000" cellspacing="3"> <tr> <td bgcolor="#000000" valign="top"><img border="0" alt="Anthony Cheeseboro" src="/artsandsciences/historicalstudies/img/thomas2.gif" /></td> </tr> </table> </td> <td> <table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td><strong>Allison Thomason</strong><br />Associate Professor<br /><br />Ancient World<br />Office Phone: 618-650-3685<br /><br />Location: Peck Hall, Rm. 1214<br /> E-mail: <a href="mailto:althoma@siue.edu">althoma@siue.edu</a></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr></table><p></p><h3>Education</h3><p>Ph.D., Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, 1999</p><p>M.A. University of Chicago, 1993</p><p>B.A. Brown University, 1991</p><h3>Research Interests</h3><p>Mesopotamia, Neo-Assyrian empire, art historical method and theory, collecting and museum studies, imperialism and exoticism</p><h3>Publications</h3><p>"Representations of the North Syrian Landscape in Neo-Assyrian Art", Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 323, August 2001: 63-96.</p><p>"Conceptions of the Material World at Nineveh", Iraq 66, December, 2004.</p><p>Luxury and Legitimation: Royal Collecting in Ancient Mesopotamia (London: Ashgate, 2005).</p><h3>Courses Taught Regularly</h3><p>History 111b, Introduction to the History of Western Civilization, 1815-Present</p><p>History 112a, World History, Prehistory-1500</p><p>History 113, Civilizations of the Ancient World</p><p>History 302, Ancient Egypt</p><p>History 304, Ancient Greece</p><p>History 403, Ancient Mesopotamia</p><p>Art and Ideology in the Ancient World</p><p>History 500: Graduate Seminar on Orientalism</p><p>Interdisciplinary Studies/Women's Studies 352, Women in the Ancient World</p><p>SIU Travel-Study Trips to Egypt and Greece (Ancient World Experiences)</p><h3>Interesting Links</h3><p><a href="/artsandsciences/historicalstudies/">SIUE Department of Historical Studies</a></p><p><a href="/lovejoylibrary/">SIUE Library</a></p><p><a href="http://www-etcsl.orient.ox.ac.uk/">Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature</a></p><p><a href="http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/ABZU.HTML">ABZU</a> - General web page and search engine for Mesopotamia and Egypt</p><p><a href="http://www.stoa.org/diotima">DIOTIMA</a>- Focuses on gender and ancient history</p><p><a href="http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/">The British Museum</a> - National museum in London, Mesopotamian objects in its collection</p><p><a href="/artsandsciences/historicalstudies/facstaff.shtml">Back to Faculty/Staff Directory</a></p>