Senior Lecturer
M.A. (Oxford), D.Phil. (Oxford)
Email: a.cooley{at}warwick.ac.uk

Personal profile:

I studied 'Greats' at St John's College, Oxford between 1989 and 1993, and subsequently carried out my research for my D.Phil. (The role of inscribed monuments in transforming public space at Pompeii and Ostia) at the same college, latterly as North Senior Scholar. After a period of research at the British School at Rome as holder of a Rome Award in Ancient Italian Studies, I then took up a joint post as Junior Research Fellow (Corpus Christi College, Oxford) and Murray Fellow (History Faculty, Oxford) before joining Warwick in 2000.

Teaching:

Undergraduate:

• Roman Culture and Society (convenor)
• Transformation of Roman Society under Augustus (module tutor)
• Tiberius to Hadrian (module tutor)
• Hellenistic World (contributing lecturer)
• Dissertation supervision

In 2004 I was awarded The Butterworth Memorial Teaching Award by the University.

Postgraduate: 

• Taught MA in Ancient Visual and Material Culture (Epigraphy; Advanced Ancient Language)
• Recent dissertations supervised:
  • Cicero and Augustus (2008/9)
  • Representations of barbarians in Roman historians (2008/10)
  • The impact of Classical Antiquity on Nazi Germany (Taught MA in Ancient Visual and Material Culture, 2006)
  • The politics of drunkenness in Ancient Rome (MA by Research, 2005)

Research degrees examined:

• ‘Roman funerary monuments and the construction of identity in Pompeii, Gaul and Deva between 50 BC and AD 250’ (MA, Warwick)
• ‘The Dynamics of Civic Euergetism in Spain, Gaul and Africa’ (D.Phil., Oxford)

I am keen to supervise postgraduate students who wish to study topics related to Latin epigraphy and Roman social, cultural, and political history from the late Republic to the second century AD. 

Research:

I am interested in all aspects of the Roman world - social, cultural, economic, and political. My research focuses upon Roman Italy and the early Principate in particular, and upon the use of inscriptions in both ancient and modern times. I enjoy the interchange of ideas between teaching and researching. My most recent book is a new edition and commentary of the Res Gestae divi Augusti, the account of his achievements by the emperor Augustus, in which he summarises his benefactions to the Roman people. I am currently working on the Cambridge Handbook to Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge University Press), and am editing A Companion to Roman Italy (Blackwell). I have published two books on Pompeii and edited three volumes of papers on various aspects of epigraphy.

I am an active member of the British Epigraphy Society, and have served on the committee for several years (1998-2001, 2002-07). I am currently a member of the Council of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies (2008-11). I have acted as Honorary Publications Officer for the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents in Oxford since the Centre's inception in 1997, and I am joint series editor (with Alan Bowman) of the Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents, published by Oxford University Press.

Recent Publications:

• 'Septimius Severus - the Augustan emperor' in Severan Culture, eds S. Swain, S. Harrison, J. Elsner (CUP 2007) 381-93
• 'Roman inscriptions 2001-2005', JRS (2007) 176-262 [with B. Salway and S. Mitchell] 
• 'The publication of Roman official documents in the Greek East', in Literacy and the State in the Ancient Mediterranean, eds K. Lomas, R. Whitehouse, J.B. Wilkins (Accordia Specialist Studies in the Mediterranean 7, 2007) 203-18
• Res Gestae divi Augusti, edition with introduction, translation, and commentary (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

Forthcoming Publications (in press):

• 'Commemorating the war-dead of the Roman world' in Cultures of Commemoration, eds P. Low, G.J.Oliver, P.J. Rhodes (OUP/British Academy)  
• 'History and Inscriptions, Rome' in The Oxford History of Historical Writing vol. 1, eds. A. Feldherr & G. Hardy (OUP)
• 'From document to monument: inscribing Roman official documents in the Greek East', in Epigraphy and the Historical Sciences, eds J.K. Davies & J.J. Wilkes (OUP/ British Academy)