Alice Stevenson Explained
Alice Stevenson is a British archaeologist and museum curator. She is Professor of Museum Archaeology 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 PhD in archaeology from the University of Cambridge 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.
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. 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.[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 between 3482 and 3102 BC, and heralded as the world's oldest dress.[6] [7]
Stevenson is a contributor to The Conversation news outlet and has written an article about the sale of archaeological antiquities on the open market.[8]
She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 12 December 2019.[9]
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: 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
Notes and References
- Web site: Alice Stevenson . 17 February 2016 . The Conversation . 4 January 2018.
- Web site: Alice Stevenson . UCL Institute of Archaeology . 4 January 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171217101017/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/people/staff/astevenson . 17 December 2017 . dead .
- Ward, C. . 2017 . Interview with Dr. Alice Stevenson . Papers from the Institute of Archaeology . 27 . 1 . 13 . 10.5334/pia-526 . free .
- Web site: World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization . Pitt Rivers Museum . 4 January 2018.
- Book: The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: Characters and Collections . 2015 . UCL Press . Stevenson, A..
- Dressing for the Ages . Jarrett A. . Lobell . . 1605 . May 2016 . 4 January 2018.
- Alice . Stevenson . Michael W. . Dee . Confirmation of the world's oldest woven garment: the Tarkhan dress . . 90 . 349 . February 2016 . 31 October 2018.
- Web site: Why archaeological antiquities should not be sold on the open market, full stop . Stevenson, Alice . 13 July 2017 . The Conversation . 4 January 2018.
- Web site: 12 December Ballot Result . 12 December 2019 . Society of Antiquaries of London . 20 December 2019.
