Penelope Davies

Penelope Davies is a Roman archaeologist and art historian. She specialises in the architectural history of ancient Rome. She is a Professor of Art History, Roman Art and Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. Education Davies was educated at the University of Cambridge and Yale University. Her thesis was titled 'Politics and Design: The Funerary Monuments of the Roman Emperors from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius (28 B.C.-A.D. 193)'. Career Davies is Professor of Art History, Roman Art and Architecture at the University of Texas. Her 2017 monograph, Architecture and Politics in Republican Rome, is described as "an authoritative account of the inextricable relationship between Roman art and architecture and Roman history". Davies has collaborated on recent editions of Janson's History of Art and Janson's A Basic History of Art. In 2008, Davies was the Hugh Last Fellow at the British School at Rome in 2008. Davies was the winner of the Dallas Museum of Arts’ Vasari Award and in 2016 she received the College of Fine Arts Teaching Award.