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]
Education
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]
Career
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 Associé at 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]
