Pauline Allen
Australian Church historian (1948-)
Pauline Allen, (born 23 February 1948) is an Australian scholar of early Christianity. She is Research Professor of Early Christian Studies and the Director of the Centre for Early Christian Studies at the Australian Catholic University.
Honours
In 1996 Allen was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, while in July 2016, she was elected a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).
Selected works
Barbara Garlick; Suzanne Dixon; Pauline Allen, eds. (1992). Stereotypes of women in power: historical perspectives and revisionist views. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-27731-3.
Mary B. Cunningham; Pauline Allen, eds. (1998).
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