Alice Stevenson
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Alice Stevenson {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100|FSA}} 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.{{cite web |url=https://theconversation.com/profiles/alice-stevenson-229373 |title=Alice Stevenson |date=17 February 2016 |publisher=The Conversation |accessdate=4 January 2018}}
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.{{citation needed|date=June 2018}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/people/staff/astevenson |title=Alice Stevenson |publisher=UCL Institute of Archaeology |accessdate=4 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171217101017/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/people/staff/astevenson |archive-date=17 December 2017 |url-status=dead }}{{cite journal |author1=Ward, C. |year=2017 |title=Interview with Dr. Alice Stevenson |journal=Papers from the Institute of Archaeology |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=13 |doi=10.5334/pia-526 |doi-access=free }} 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/world.html |title=World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization |publisher=Pitt Rivers Museum |accessdate=4 January 2018}}
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.{{cite book |url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/petrie-museum-archaeology |title=The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: Characters and Collections |date=2015 |publisher=UCL Press |editor1=Stevenson, A.}} 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.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.archaeology.org/issues/215-1605/trenches/4349-trenches-egypt-predynastic-period-tarkhan-dress |title=Dressing for the Ages |first=Jarrett A. |last=Lobell |magazine=Archaeology |issue=1605 |date=May 2016 |access-date=4 January 2018}}{{cite journal |first1=Alice |last1=Stevenson |first2=Michael W. |last2=Dee |title=Confirmation of the world's oldest woven garment: the Tarkhan dress |journal=Antiquity |volume=90 |issue=349 |date=February 2016 |url=http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/stevenson349 |access-date=31 October 2018}}
Stevenson is a contributor to The Conversation news outlet and has written an article about the sale of archaeological antiquities on the open market.{{cite web |url=https://theconversation.com/why-archaeological-antiquities-should-not-be-sold-on-the-open-market-full-stop-54928 |author1=Stevenson, Alice |title=Why archaeological antiquities should not be sold on the open market, full stop |date=13 July 2017 |work=The Conversation |accessdate=4 January 2018}}
She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 12 December 2019.{{cite web |url=https://www.sal.org.uk/news/2019/12/12-december-ballot-result/ |title=12 December Ballot Result |date=12 December 2019 |publisher=Society of Antiquaries of London |accessdate=20 December 2019}}
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
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Category:British women archaeologists
Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Category:Alumni of the University of Leicester
Category:British Egyptologists
Category:21st-century British archaeologists