Susan Irene Rotroff is an American

classical archaeologist Classical archaeology is the archaeological investigation of the Mediterranean civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Nineteenth-century archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann were drawn to study the societies they had read about i ...

classicist Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

, and academic, specialising in the art, archaeology, and

pottery Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other ceramic materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. Major types include earthenware, stoneware and po ...

Ancient Greece Ancient Greece ( el, Ἑλλάς, Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity ( AD 600), that comprised a loose collection of cult ...

. She was Jarvis Thurston and Mona Van Duyn Professor in the Humanities, at

Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis (WashU or WUSTL) is a private research university with its main campus in St. Louis County, and Clayton, Missouri. Founded in 1853, the university is named after George Washington. Washington University i ...

Early life and education

Rotroff studied for her

Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four yea ...

(AB) degree at

Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College ( ; Welsh: ) is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, a group of elite, historically women's colleges in the United Sta ...

. Following graduation, she studied for one year at the

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. She graduated from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the n ...

, with a PhD in 1976.

Academic career

In 1995, Rotroff joined the faculty of the Classics Department at

Honours

In 1988, she was awarded a fellowship by the

MacArthur Fellows Program The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the MacArthur Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to ...

. In 2011 Rotroff was awarded the Gold Medal from the

Archaeological Institute of America The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) is North America's oldest society and largest organization devoted to the world of archaeology. AIA professionals have carried out archaeological fieldwork around the world and AIA has established re ...

On 10 March 2016, she was elected a

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(FSA).

Works

''The Athenian Agora XXXIII, Hellenistic Pottery: The Plain Wares''
ASCSA, 2006, * ''The Athenian Agora XXIX, Hellenistic Pottery: Athenian and Imported Wheelmade Tableware''. Princeton 1997. *''The Romanization of Athens: proceedings of an international conference held at Lincoln'', Nebraska (April 1996) Editors Michael C. Hoff, Susan I. Rotroff, Oxbow Books, 1997,
''Debris from a Public Dining Room in the Athenian Agora''
Hesperia, Supplement 25, Authors Susan I. Rotroff, John Howard Oakley, ASCSA, 1992, * ''Sardis Monograph 12: The Hellenistic Pottery from Sardis'', Authors Susan I. Rotroff, Andrew Oliver, Ilse Hanfmann, George Maxim Anossov Hanfmann, Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, 2003,
''Hellenistic relief molds from the Athenian Agora''
Volume 23 of Hesperia Supplement, Authors Clairève Grandjouan, Eileen Markson, Susan I. Rotroff, ASCSA, 1989,
"Three Centuries of Hellenistic Terracottas"
''Hellenistic pottery and terracottas'', Editors Homer A. Thompson, Dorothy Burr Thompson, Susan I. Rotroff, ASCSA, 1987, *''Hellenistic pottery: Athenian and imported moldmade bowls'', Volume 22 of Athenian Agora, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1982,
''Women in the Athenian Agora''
Authors Susan I. Rotroff, Robert Lamberton, ASCSA, 2006, *''Megarian bowls in the Athenian agora'', Princeton., 1975

References

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