Susan Irene Rotroff | |
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Nationality | American |
Occupation | Archaeologist |
Awards | Aristeia Award (2020) [1] |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Princeton University |
Thesis | (1976) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Washington University in St. Louis |
Main interests | Classical archaeology,Classics,Ancient Greek art,Ancient Greek pottery |
Susan Irene Rotroff is an American classical archaeologist,classicist,and academic,specialising in the art,archaeology,and pottery of Ancient Greece. She was Jarvis Thurston and Mona Van Duyn Professor in the Humanities,at Washington University in St. Louis. [2] [3]
Rotroff studied for her Bachelor of Arts (AB) degree at Bryn Mawr College. Following graduation,she studied for one year at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. [4] She graduated from Princeton University,with a PhD in 1976.
In 1995,Rotroff joined the faculty of the Classics Department at Washington University in St. Louis. [4]
In 1988,she was awarded a fellowship by the MacArthur Fellows Program. [5] In 2011 Rotroff was awarded the Gold Medal from the Archaeological Institute of America [6] On 10 March 2016,she was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA). [7]
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