Susan E. Alcock
American classical archaeologist
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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 Clare College, Cambridge, graduating from the University of Cambridge with a starred first class BA in 1985; as per tradition, this BA was promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Cantab) degree in 1989. 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".
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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. Before 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 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
In 2015, Alcock was appointed Special Counsel for Institutional Outreach and Engagement and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Classical Archaeology and Classics at the University of Michigan, and became the Interim Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Michigan-Flint in July 2018. In 2022, she left to join the teaching faculty as Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Oklahoma-Norman.