Allison M. J. Glazebrook
Associate Professor
Department of Classics
Brock University
Canada
Biography
Dr. Allison M. J. Glazebrook is affiliated to Department of Classics, Brock University. Dr. Allison M. J. Glazebrook is currently providing services as Associate Professor. Dr. Allison M. J. Glazebrook has published numerous publications in various national and international peer-reviewed journals and presented scientific papers across the world. Because of the active association with different societies and academies as well as the contributions, Dr. Allison M. J. Glazebrook is been recognized by the subject experts around the world. Dr. Allison M. J. Glazebrook contributions are appreciated by various reputed awards. Dr. Allison M. J. Glazebrook clinical and scientific research interests include I spent a year as a regular member at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens as a graduate student. Before coming to Brock University in 2003, I was a teaching and research fellow at Stanford University. My research relates to the social and cultural history of ancient Greece, and focuses on women, gender, sexuality and slavery. I use texts, vase iconography and archaeological data to explore these topics. To date, much of my research has been on the image of the Athenian prostitute concentrating on how male discourse constructs and manipulates the image of the prostitute in such contexts as the law courts and the symposium. In part, my work is a reaction to scholarship that idealizes the ancient hetaira (sexual companion, regularly translated as courtesan), and attempts to look at how prostitution affected the lives of women across ancient Athenian society. I am currently researching ancient Greek prostitutes, with a particular focus on prostitutes as slaves. This research is currently funded through a SSHRC Insight Grant..
Research Interest
I spent a year as a regular member at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens as a graduate student. Before coming to Brock University in 2003, I was a teaching and research fellow at Stanford University. My research relates to the social and cultural history of ancient Greece, and focuses on women, gender, sexuality and slavery. I use texts, vase iconography and archaeological data to explore these topics. To date, much of my research has been on the image of the Athenian prostitute concentrating on how male discourse constructs and manipulates the image of the prostitute in such contexts as the law courts and the symposium. In part, my work is a reaction to scholarship that idealizes the ancient hetaira (sexual companion, regularly translated as courtesan), and attempts to look at how prostitution affected the lives of women across ancient Athenian society. I am currently researching ancient Greek prostitutes, with a particular focus on prostitutes as slaves. This research is currently funded through a SSHRC Insight Grant.
Publications
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2015. "Sexuality" in Oxford Bibliographies in Classics. Ed. Dee Clayman. New York: Oxford University Press.
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2015. "Beyond Courtesans and Whores: Sex and Labor in the Graeco-Roman World" in Beyond Courtesans and Whores: Sex and Labor in the Graeco-Roman World. Ed. Allison Glazebrook. A Special Issue of Helios 42.1: 1-5.
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2015. "A Hierarchy of Violence? Sex Slaves, Parthenoi and Rape in Menander’s Epitrepontes" in Beyond Courtesans and Whores: Sex and Labor in the Graeco-Roman World. Ed. Allison Glazebrook. A special issue of Helios. 42.1: 81-101.
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2016. Houses of Ill-Repute: The Archaeology of Brothels, Houses and Taverns in the Greek World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (Co-edited with Barbara Tsakirgis).
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2016. "Is There an Archaeology of Prostitution?" in Houses of Ill-Repuke: The Archaeology of Brothels, Houses and Taverns in the Greek World. Eds. Allison Glazebrook and Barbara Tsakirgis. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 169-96.
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2016. "Prostitutes, Women, and Gender in Ancient Greece" in Women in Antiquity: Real Women across the Ancient World. Eds. Stephanie Lynn Budin and Jean Macintosh Turfa. Routledge Publishing. 703-13.
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2017. Themes in Greek Society and Culture. Oxford University Press. (co-edited with Christina Vester).
