Allison earned her M.A. in Art History in 2020 with her thesis
“‘Dark Age’ Re-Enlightened: A Reassessment of the Archaeological
and Architectural Evidence of Seventh-Century C.E. Athens.”
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
M.A., University of California, Berkeley
B.A., University of Utah
Bio
Field of interest: Pre-Gupta Vaisnava iconography and numismatics
in South and Southeast Asia; Buddhist survivals in Tamil Siddha
tradition; the representation of Hinduism and Buddhism in
American popular literature from 1880 to 1968.
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
B.A., University of Texas at Austin
Bio
Fields of interest: Ancient Mesoamerican art and writing;
colonial and contemporary Maya textiles and dance; performance
theory; post-colonial theory; structuralism and semiotics
