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.

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''. She became a Fellow of the

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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. Stevenson was Curator of the

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from 2013 to 2016 and published an edited volume about the museum titled ''The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: Characters and Collections'' in 2015. 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. Stevenson is a contributor to '' The Conversation'' news outlet and has written an article about the sale of archaeological antiquities on the open market. She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 12 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. ''

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'', 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

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