Susan Guettel Cole is Professor Emerita at the University at Buffalo in the Department of Classics. She is known for her work on Ancient Greek Religion and gender. [1]
Susan Guettel Cole | |
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Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Minnesota |
Thesis | (1975) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classics;Ancient Greek Religion |
Institutions | University of Illinois at Chicago;University at Buffalo |
Notable works | Landscapes,Gender,and Ritual Space:The Ancient Greek Experience (2004) |
Cole received her PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1975. [1] Her doctoral thesis was entitled The Samothracian Mysteries and the Samothracian Gods:Initiates,Theoroi,and Worshippers. [2]
After graduating,she became Assistant Professor of Classics and Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. [1] [3] In 1991 she was a Fellow of the Institute of Humanities at UIC. [4] She published Theoi Megaloi:The Cult of the Great Gods at Samothrace,based on her doctoral dissertation,in 1986. [5] [6] Her second book,Landscapes,Gender,and Ritual Space:The Ancient Greek Experience,came out in 2004. [7] She has also worked on pigs in Ancient Greek culture. [8] [9]
In 1992 she joined the Department of Classics at the University at Buffalo,where she was Chair of the department from 1994 to 1995 and again 1998–2004. [1] [10]
Cole was chair of the Society for Classical Studies Committee for Professional Ethics in 1986. [11] She was Directeur d’Etudes Associéat the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études in 1990. [12] In 1996-97 she was a Fellow of the National Humanities Center. [13] She has also received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies,the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation,and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, [10] and a grant from the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy. [14]