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.[1]

Susan Guettel Cole
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Minnesota
Thesis (1975)
Academic work
DisciplineClassics; Ancient Greek Religion
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois at Chicago; University at Buffalo
Notable worksLandscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space: The Ancient Greek Experience (2004)

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 1994-95 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]

Select publications
  • 1980. "New Evidence for the Mysteries of Dionysos." Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 21.3: 223–238.
  • 1981. "Could Greek women read and write?" Women's Studies, 8(1-2),
  • 1984. "Greek Sanctions against Sexual Assault." Classical Philology, 79(2), 97-113.
  • 1984. "The Social Function of Rituals of Maturation: The Koureion and the Arkteia." Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik, 55, 233–244.
  • 1984. "Male and Female in Greek Cult." Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik, 55, 231.
  • 1986. Theoi Megaloi: the cult of the great gods at Samothrace . Leiden: Brill.[15][16] ISBN 9789004296473
  • 2000. "Landscapes of Artemis." The Classical World 93.5 (2000): 471–81.
  • 2004. Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space:The Ancient Greek Experience. Berkeley: University of California Press.[17] ISBN 9780520235441
  • 2008. "Ritual Texts for the Afterlife. Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets." The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 128, 221.
  • 2010. "Maenads." in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome.

References
  1. "Emeriti". arts-sciences.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
  2. primo.lib.umn.edu https://primo.lib.umn.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=UMN_ALMA21360651070001701&context=L&vid=TWINCITIES&lang=en_US&search_scope=mncat_discovery&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=article_discovery&query=any,contains,Susan%20Guettel%20Cole&offset=0. Retrieved 2019-10-27. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. "UIC GWS History". Gender and Women's Studies. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
  4. "1990-1991 Institute Fellows Lectures". huminst.uic.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
  5. Cole, Susan Guettel (2015-11-16). Theoi Megaloi: The Cult of the Great Gods at Samothrace. BRILL. ISBN 9789004296473.
  6. Cole, Susan Guettel (1984-01-01). Theoi Megaloi: The Cult of the Great Gods at Samothrace. Brill Archive. ISBN 9789004068858.
  7. Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space.
  8. "One Little Piggy Went To Temple, Same Little Piggy Was Lunch". www.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
  9. "Hog Wild in Athens B.C.E.! Role of Pigs in Social and Religious Life Provides Insights into Ancient Greece". www.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
  10. "Susan Cole to Head UB Classics Department". www.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
  11. "SCS Statement on Professional Ethics". Society for Classical Studies. 2013-05-28. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
  12. Raaflaub, Kurt A.; Talbert, Richard J. A., eds. (2009-12-18), "Front Matter", Geography and Ethnography, Wiley-Blackwell, pp. i–xvii, doi:10.1002/9781444315653.fmatter, ISBN 9781444315653, retrieved 2019-02-21
  13. "UB's Bacigalupo Named 2009-10 Resident Fellow of the National Humanities Center". www.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
  14. "Baldy Center Grant Recipients". www.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
  15. Cole, Susan Guettel (2015-11-16). Theoi Megaloi: The Cult of the Great Gods at Samothrace. BRILL. ISBN 9789004296473.
  16. Tomlinson, R. A. (1988). "Cole (S. G.) Theoi megaloi: the cult of the great gods at Samothrace. (Etudes préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'empire romain, 96.) Leiden: Brill. 1984. Pp. xix + 193, [6] plates, 3 maps, 1 plan. Fl. 76". The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 108: 246–247. doi:10.2307/632682. ISSN 2041-4099. JSTOR 632682.
  17. Lape, Susan (2004). "Review of: Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space: the Ancient Greek Experience". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
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