Susan Guettel Cole

Susan Guettel Cole

Professor
Phone: 645-2154, ext. 104
Email: sgcole@acsu.buffalo.edu

Graduate Degrees:

  • PhD: University of Minnesota, Department of Classics (1975).

Expertise/research interests:

  • Ancient Greek history, religion, and gender, with an emphasis on the varieties and social meanings of Greek ritual practice.

Selected Publications:

  • Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space (University of California Press, 2004).
  • "Dionysian Landscapes and Elysian Fields," in Mysteria: The Archaeology of Ancient Greek Secret Cults. M. Cosmopolous, ed. (Routledge, 2004).
  • "Demeter in the Ancient Greek City and its Countryside," Oxford Readings in Greek Religion. R. Buxton, ed. (Oxford University Press, 2000), 133-154.
  • "Oath Ritual and the Male Community at Athens," in Demokratia: A Conversation on Democracies, Ancient and Modern. J. Ober and C. Hedrick, eds. (Princeton University Press, 1996), 227-248.
  • "Civic Cult and Civic Identity," Sources for the Ancient Greek City-State, Acts of the Copenhagen Polis Centre vol. 2.. M. Hansen ed. (The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Munksgaard, 1995), 292-325.
  • Theoi Megaloi: The Cult of the Great Gods at Samothrace (Brill, 1984).

Offices in Professional Organizations:

  • Co-Chair, A.P.A. Nominating Committee (2001-2002).
  • Member, A.P.A. Board of Directors (1990-1993).
  • Chair, A.P.A. Committee on Professional Ethics (1987-89).
  • Co-Chair, Women’s Classical Caucus Steering Committee (1981-83).
  • Chair, A.P.A. Committee on the Status of Women and of Minorities (1981-82).

Honors and Awards:

  • National Humanities Center Fellowship (1996-1997).
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1979-1980; 1996-1997).
  • Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship (University of Cologne, Institut für Altertumskunde; 1991, 1990, 1986, 1983-84).
  • American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (1982-83).
  • Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington D.C.: Fellowship (1979-80).

Research projects:

  • The Epigraphical Evidence for the cult of Dionysos.
  • The problems of defining a pan-Hellenic cult of Demeter: the misfit between the archaeological and literary evidence.
  • The Greek Gold Tablets and the varieties of Greek eschatology.

Undergraduate Courses:

  • Elementary Greek; Intermediate Greek; Women in the Ancient World,; Survey of Greek History; The Greek City; Religion and Society in Ancient Greece.

Graduate Courses:

  • Greek Syntax and Stylistics; History of Greek Literature; Greek Epigraphy; Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece; The Greek City; Greek Historiography; The Greek Hymn; Writing a History of Greek Death; Euripides' Bacchae and Epigraphical Evidence for Dionysiac Cult; Dionysos; Plato’s Apology and Aristophanes’ Clouds; Religion and Society in Ancient Greece.

Curriculum Vitae