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  • Allyson McDavid

    Assistant Professor of Ancient Material and Visual Culture

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    allysonmcdavid@newschool.edu

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    Allyson McDavid

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    Allyson McDavid currently serves as director of the Master of Architecture program in the School of Constructed Environments, and is Assistant Professor of Ancient Material and Visual Culture at Parsons School of Design.

    Her research interests in architectural history span antiquity to the present, with specialization in the archaeology of renovation in monuments and cities of the ancient world.  Drawing from dual fields of contemporary architectural practice in the United States and archaeological fieldwork on sites of antiquity across the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions, Allyson integrates theory, practice, and social histories in her focus on circular practices that champion resiliency in the built environment.

    Allyson received her MArch and BA in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, and holds a PhD in architectural history and archaeology from New York University. Prior to joining Parsons, she taught undergraduate courses in art, architecture and urbanism at New York University’s Department of Art History. Her publications include the forthcoming monograph, The Hadrianic Baths of Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity (Wiesbaden); chapters in Economic Circularity in the Roman and Early Medieval Worlds (Oxford, 2023), Classical New York: Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham (New York, 2018), Masons at Work: Architecture and Construction in the Pre-Modern World (Philadelphia, 2012), EGERIA: Mediterranean Medieval Places of Pilgrimage (Athens, 2009); and articles in the Journal of Roman Archaeology (2016) and the European Architectural Histories Network (2019).


    Current Courses

    Histories of Architecture
    PGAR 5040, Fall 2024

    Independent Study
    PLAH 3900, Fall 2024

    Future Courses

    Theory of the Interior
    PGID 5111, Spring 2025

    Past Courses

    Independent Study
    PGAR 5900, Spring 2024

    Theory of the Interior
    PGID 5111, Spring 2024

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