Susan E. Alcock
Susan E. Alcock is an American classical archaeologist .
Life
Studies and academic teaching
Susan Alcock studied archeology and history at Yale University from 1979 to 1983 , where she received a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude . From 1983 to 1985 she completed a Classical Honors Tripos at Cambridge University and received a Bachelor of Arts first-class honors . Alcock continued her studies at Cambridge University from 1985 to 1989, during which time she received a Master of Arts and a Ph.D. The topic of her dissertation was Greek Society and the Transition to Roman Rule .
From 1990 to 1992 she was Lecturer in Classical Archeology and Literature at the University of Reading and Assistant Curator at the University's Ure Museum of Greek Archeology . Alcock moved to the University of Michigan in 1992 , where he taught as an assistant professor until 1996 and as an associate professor from 1996 to 2002. In addition, she held the "Arthur F. Thurnau Professorship" at the university from 2000 to 2003 and was also "John H. D'Arms Collegiate Professor" from 2002 to 2005. At the same time, she held various positions at the University of Kelsey Museum of Archeology between 1993 and 2005 , including as a curator from 2002 to 2005 .
From 2006 to 2015 she was Professor in the Department of Classics at Brown University and Director of the University's Joukowsky Institute for Archeology and the Ancient World . In 2015 she returned to the University of Michigan and has been a professor there ever since. In 2000 and again in 2002 she was invited professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris . In 2001 she was Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University .
From 2001 to 2006 she held the MacArthur Fellowship . In November 2007 she was elected a member of the Society of Antiquaries of London . In 2012 she became a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and in 2013 of the British Academy .
She has also been a member of the Archaeological Institute of America since 1989 , the Cambridge Philological Society since 1990 , the Classical Association and the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies since 1991 , the Society for American Archeology since 1994 , and the European Association of Archaeologists since 1998 and since 2006 the American Schools of Oriental Research . From 1994 to 1996 and again in 2003 she was a member of the American Anthropological Association . From 2000 to 2002 she was a member of the American Association of Museums .
Her book Archaeologies of the Greek Past , published in 2002 . Landscapes, Monuments and Memories received the Spiro Kostof Award from the Society of Architectural Historians in 2004 .
Archaeological field research
Alcock took part in various excavations and surveys in Greece in the 1980s, including in Phleius . From 1991 to 2002 she was co-director of the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project , which was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Geographic Society and carried out under the auspices of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens . From 2004 to 2008 she was co-director of the Vorotan Project in the Armenian province of Sjunik , which was carried out in cooperation with the Armenian Academy of Sciences . Since 2009 she has been co-director of the Brown University Petra Archaeological Project in the rock city of Petra in Jordan .
Publications (selection)
- Graecia Capta. The Landscapes of Roman Greece. (1993, Cambridge University Press)
- with Robin Osborne (Ed.): Placing the Gods: Sanctuaries and Sacred Space in Ancient Greece. (1994, Oxford: Clarendon Press)
- (Ed.): The Early Roman Empire in the East. (1997, Oxford: Oxbow Books)
- with John F. Cherry, Jas Elsner (Eds.): Pausanias: Travel and Memory in Roman Greece. (2001, New York: Oxford University Press)
- with Terence N. D'Altroy, Kathleen D. Morrison, Carla M. Sinopoli (Eds.): Empires. Perspectives from Archeology and History. (2001, Cambridge University Press)
- Archaeologies of the Greek Past: Landscape, Monuments and Memories (2002, WB Stanford Lectures, Cambridge University Press).
- with Ruth M. Van Dyke (Ed.): Archaeologies of Memory (2003, Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishers)
- with Nino Luraghi (Ed.): Helots and their Masters in Laconia and Messenia. Histories, Ideologies, Structures. (2003, Hellenic Studies Series 4. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies)
- with John F. Cherry (Ed.): Side-by-Side Survey. Comparative Regional Studies in the Mediterranean World. (2004, Oxford: Oxbow Books)
- with Robin Osborne (Ed.): Blackwell Studies in Global Archeology. Classical Archeology. (2007, Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishers)
- with John Bodel, Richard JA Talbert (Ed.): Highways, Byways and Road Systems in the Premodern World. (2012, Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishers)
Web links
- Resume on the University of Michigan website
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Alcock, Susan E. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Classical Archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |