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{{short description|American classical archaeologist}}
{{Infobox academic|honorific_prefix=|name=Susan E. Alcock|alma_mater={{unbulleted list|[[Yale University]]|[[University of Cambridge]]}}|thesis_title=Greek society and the transition to Roman rule|discipline=Archaeology| awards = Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bu.edu/archaeology/2016/12/15/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-50000/|title = 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}}</ref>|workplaces={{unbulleted list|[[University of Michigan]]|[[Brown University]]|[[University of Michigan-Flint]]}}}}'''Susan Ellen 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]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://vivo.brown.edu/display/salcock |title=Alcock, Susan |website=vivo.brown.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150401192410/https://vivo.brown.edu/display/salcock |archive-date=2015-04-01}} </ref> She is currently Special Counsel for Institutional Outreach and Engagement and Professor of Classical Archaeology and Classics at the University of Michigan and became the Interim [[Provost (education)|Provost]] and [[Vice-Chancellor|Vice Chancellor]] for Academic Affairs at the [[University of Michigan - Flint]] in July 2018.

==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 [[Classical Tripos|classics]] at the University of Cambridge, graduating with a [[First Class Honours|first class]] BA in 1985; as per tradition, this BA was promoted to a [[Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin)|Master of Arts]] (MA Cantab) degree in 1989.<ref name="CV">{{cite web|title=CURRICULUM VITAE: Susan E. Alcock|url=https://lsa.umich.edu/classics/people/departmental-faculty/susan-alcock/_jcr_content/file.res/Alcock_CV_September_2015.pdf|website=College of Literature, Science, and the Arts|publisher=University of Michigan|access-date=8 July 2016|date=2015}}</ref> 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".<ref name="CV" /><ref>{{cite thesis|last1=Alcock|first1=Susan Ellen|title=Greek society and the transition to Roman rule|url=http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=8&uin=uk.bl.ethos.304193|website=E-Thesis Online Service|publisher=The British Library|access-date=9 July 2016|date=1988|doi=10.17863/CAM.31033|type=Ph.D}}</ref>

==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.<ref>[https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/about/Newsletters/JIAAWNewsletter-FallWinter2015.pdf ''Inventory: News from the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World'' Fall/Winter 2015]</ref> 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<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class/july-2000/|title = MacArthur Foundation}}</ref> she was awarded a [[MacArthur Fellowship]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.archaeology.org/0507/etc/conversations.html|title=Conversations: Monuments and Memory - Archaeology Magazine Archive}}</ref>

In 2018 Alcock was appointed as the interim provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the [[University of Michigan–Flint|University of Michigan-Flint]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://news.umflint.edu/2018/06/21/susan-alcock-appointed-interim-provost-and-vice-chancellor-for-academic-affairs-at-um-flint/|title=Alcock appointed Interim Provost & VC for Academic Affairs at UM-Flint|date=2018-06-21|work=UM-Flint NOW|access-date=2018-06-22|language=en-US}}</ref>

==Publications==
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* ''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 ==
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==External links==
* [https://vivo.brown.edu/display/salcock Faculty page at Brown]
* [http://brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/fieldwork/bupap Brown University Petra Archaeological Project (BUPAP)]
* [https://president.umich.edu/leadership-team/direct-reports/susan-e-sue-alcock/ University of Michigan, Special Counsel for Institutional Outreach and Engagement, Office of the President]

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