Susan E.
Alcock
Susan Ellen Alcock is an American archaeologist
specializing in survey archaeology and the archaeology Susan E. Alcock
of memory in the provinces of the Roman Empire. Awards Distinguished Lecture in
Alcock grew up in Massachusetts and was educated at Archaeology[1]
Yale and the University of Cambridge.[2] Alcock was Academic background
Special Counsel for Institutional Outreach and
Alma Yale University
Engagement and Professor of Classical Archaeology
mater University of Cambridge
and Classics at the University of Michigan and became
the Interim Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Thesis Greek society and the transition
Affairs at the University of Michigan - Flint in July to Roman rule
2018. She is now the inaugural holder of the Barnett Academic work
Family Professorship of Classical Archaeology at the
Discipline Archaeology
University of Oklahoma-Norman where she teaches
courses in the Department of Classics & Letters.[3] Institutions University of Michigan
Brown University
University of Michigan-Flint
Early life and education
From 1979 to 1983, Alcock studied at Yale University, graduating summa cum laude with a Bachelor of
Arts degree in Archaeology and History. She then studied classics at the University of Cambridge,
graduating with a first class BA in 1985; as per tradition, this BA was promoted to a Master of Arts (MA
Cantab) degree in 1989.[4] She remained at Cambridge to undertake postgraduate research, and
completed her PhD in 1989 with a doctoral thesis titled "Greek society and the transition to Roman
rule".[4][5]
Career
Alcock served as the Director of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World and
Professor of Classics at Brown University from January 2006 until 2015.[6] Prior to that, she was the John
H. D'Arms Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Michigan. She was co-director of the
Pylos Regional Archaeological Project in southwestern Greece, then co-director of the Vorotan Project in
southern Armenia, and is now director of the Brown University Petra Archaeological Project. In 2000[7]
she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.[8]
In 2018 Alcock was appointed as the interim provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the
University of Michigan-Flint.[9]
Publications
Graecia Capta: The Landscapes of Roman Greece (Cambridge 1993)
(editor with Robin Osborne) Placing the Gods: Sanctuaries and Sacred Space in Ancient
Greece (Oxford 1994)
(editor) The Early Roman Empire in the East (Oxford 1997)
Archaeologies of the Greek Past: Landscape, Monuments and Memory (Cambridge 2001)
(edited with John Cherry and Jas Elsner) Pausanias: Travel and Memory in Roman Greece
(New York 2001)
(editor with Terence D'Altroy, Kathleen Morrison and Carla Sinopoli) Empires: Perspectives
from History and Archaeology (Cambridge 2001)
(editor with Ruth Van Dyke) The Archaeology of Memory (Oxford 2003)
(editor with John Cherry) Side-by-Side Survey: Comparative Regional Analysis in the
Mediterranean Region (Oxford 2004)
(editor with Lauren Talalay) In the Field: The Archaeological Expeditions of the Kelsey
Museum of Archaeology (Ann Arbor 2006)
References
1. "We are pleased to announce that the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation will
increase the endowment for the annual Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology with a gift of
$50,000. | Archaeology" (https://www.bu.edu/archaeology/2016/12/15/we-are-pleased-to-an
nounce-that-the-raymond-and-beverly-sackler-foundation-will-increase-the-endowment-for-t
he-annual-distinguished-lecture-in-archaeology-with-a-gift-of-50000/).
2. "Alcock, Susan" (https://web.archive.org/web/20150401192410/https://vivo.brown.edu/displa
y/salcock). vivo.brown.edu. Archived from the original (https://vivo.brown.edu/display/salcoc
k) on 2015-04-01.
3. "Sue Alcock" (http://www.ou.edu/cas/classicsandletters/people/sue-alcock.html).
www.ou.edu. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
4. "CURRICULUM VITAE: Susan E. Alcock" (https://web.archive.org/web/20151030031114/htt
p://lsa.umich.edu/classics/people/departmental-faculty/susan-alcock/_jcr_content/file.res/Alc
ock_CV_September_2015.pdf) (PDF). College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.
University of Michigan. 2015. Archived from the original (https://lsa.umich.edu/classics/peopl
e/departmental-faculty/susan-alcock/_jcr_content/file.res/Alcock_CV_September_2015.pdf)
(PDF) on 30 October 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
5. Alcock, Susan Ellen (1988). Greek society and the transition to Roman rule (https://ethos.bl.
uk/OrderDetails.do?did=8&uin=uk.bl.ethos.304193). E-Thesis Online Service (Ph.D). The
British Library. doi:10.17863/CAM.31033 (https://doi.org/10.17863%2FCAM.31033).
Retrieved 9 July 2016.
6. Inventory: News from the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Fall/Winter 2015 (https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/about/Newslette
rs/JIAAWNewsletter-FallWinter2015.pdf)
7. "MacArthur Foundation" (https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class/july-2000/).
8. "Conversations: Monuments and Memory - Archaeology Magazine Archive" (http://www.arch
aeology.org/0507/etc/conversations.html).
9. "Alcock appointed Interim Provost & VC for Academic Affairs at UM-Flint" (https://news.umfli
nt.edu/2018/06/21/susan-alcock-appointed-interim-provost-and-vice-chancellor-for-academi
c-affairs-at-um-flint/). UM-Flint NOW. 2018-06-21. Retrieved 2018-06-22.
External links
Faculty page at Brown (https://vivo.brown.edu/display/salcock)
Brown University Petra Archaeological Project (BUPAP) (http://brown.edu/Departments/Jouk
owsky_Institute/fieldwork/bupap)
University of Michigan, Special Counsel for Institutional Outreach and Engagement, Office
of the President (https://president.umich.edu/leadership-team/direct-reports/susan-e-sue-alc
ock/)
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