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.[2] Alcock was Special Counsel for Institutional Outreach and Engagement and 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. She is now the inaugural holder of the Barnett Family Professorship of Classical Archaeology at the University of Oklahoma-Norman,where she teaches courses in the Department of Classics &Letters.[3]
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]
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