title: Peter Lewis Allen
text: # 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. He taught literature for a time at institutions including Princeton University, the University of Southern California, and Pomona College. 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. He has held positions at McKinsey & Company, at Google University, and at Agoda.
  
  ## Academic work
  
  Allen's research was around "culture, history, and sexuality".
  
  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.
  
  ## 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.
  * 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.
  * 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.
  