Susan E. Alcock

Who is Susan E. Alcock?

Susan Alcock is an American archaeologist specializing in survey archaeology and the archaeology of memory in the provinces of the Roman empire. Alcock grew up in Massachusetts and was educated at Yale and the University of Cambridge.

B.A., Archaeology and History, Yale University, 1983

B.A., Classics, University of Cambridge, 1985

M.A., Classics, University of Cambridge 1989

Ph.D., Classics, University of Cambridge 1989

She is the Director of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World and Professor of Classics at Brown University. 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 2001 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.