Peter Lewis Allen

Peter Lewis Allen (born 1957) is an American former academic, whose research concerns included culture, history, and sexuality.

Education and career[]

Allen earned a B.A. in classics and English from Haverford College, and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Chicago.^[1][when?] He taught literature for a time at institutions including Princeton University, the University of Southern California, and Pomona College.^{[citation needed]} He went back to earn an M.B.A. from the Wharton School in 2000, at which time he left academia for the business world.^{[citation needed]} He has held positions at McKinsey & Company, at Google University, and at Agoda.^[1]

Academic work[]

Allen's research was around "culture, history, and sexuality".^[2]

In 2007, Allen donated his collection of safe sex pamphlets to the Fales Library at NYU. This collection contains material relating to sexual health issues from 1974-2007.^[2]

Books[]

• Rosenstein, Robert; Allen, Peter Lewis (2018). At Home around the World: The Short-Term Rentals Handbook for Guests, Hosts, Neighbors, and Governments. Agoda Outside.^[3]
• Allen, Peter Lewis (June 2002). The Wages of Sin: Sex and Disease, Past and Present. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-01461-6.^[4]
• Allen, Peter Lewis (1992). The Art of Love: amatory fiction from Ovid to the Romance of the Rose. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-3188-5.^[5]

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