Susan Guettel Cole


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.

Education

Cole received her PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1975. Her doctoral thesis was entitled The Samothracian Mysteries and the Samothracian Gods: Initiates, Theoroi, and Worshippers.

Career

After graduating, she became Assistant Professor of Classics and Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 1991 she was a Fellow of the Institute of Humanities at UIC. She published Theoi Megaloi: The Cult of the Great Gods at Samothrace, based on her doctoral dissertation, in 1986. Her second book, Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space: The Ancient Greek Experience, came out in 2004. She has also worked on pigs in Ancient Greek culture.
In 1992 she joined the Department of Classics at the University at Buffalo, where she was Chair of the department from 1994-95 and again 1998–2004.
Cole was chair of the Society for Classical Studies Committee for Professional Ethics in 1986. She was Directeur d’Etudes Associé at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études in 1990. In 1996-97 she was a Fellow of the National Humanities Center. She has also received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and a grant from the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy.

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