Rate My Professor Susan Alcock

Alcock's research specializations include the Hellenistic and Roman East, landscape archaeology, archaeological survey, archaeologies of memory and imperialism, food in antiquity, and Mediterranean landscapes. She has directed major fieldwork projects such as the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project in Greece, the Vorotan Project in Armenia, and the Brown University Petra Archaeological Project in Jordan. Her influential publications encompass authored monographs like Graecia Capta: The Landscape of Roman Greece (Cambridge University Press, 1993; revised paperback 1996), Archaeologies of the Greek Past: Landscape, Monuments, and Memories (Cambridge University Press, 2002; Modern Greek edition 2006); and edited volumes including Placing the Gods: Sanctuaries and Sacred Space in Ancient Greece (with R. Osborne, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), Empires: Perspectives from Archaeology and History (with T.N. D’Altroy et al., Cambridge University Press, 2001), Archaeologies of Memory (with R. Van Dyke, Blackwell, 2003), Side-by-Side Survey: Comparative Regional Studies in the Mediterranean World (with J. Cherry, Oxbow Books, 2004), Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology: Classical Archaeology (2nd edn., 2012), and Beyond Boundaries: Connecting Visual Cultures in the Provinces of Ancient Rome (with J. Frakes and M. Egri, Getty Publications, 2016). Among her major honors are a MacArthur Fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (2001-2006), Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (2013–), Elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (2007–), Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute (2012), Senior Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (2002-2003), and Honorary Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge (2012–). Alcock's scholarship has shaped classical archaeology through pioneering interdisciplinary methods on landscapes, memory, and imperial dynamics.