Susan Irene Rotroff FSA is an American classical archaeologist, classicist, and academic, specialising in the art, archaeology, and pottery of Ancient Greece. She was Jarvis Thurston and Mona Van Duyn Professor in the Humanities, at Washington University in St. Louis. ^{[2] [3]}

Early life and education

Rotroff studied for her Bachelor of Arts (AB) degree at Bryn Mawr College. Following graduation, she studied for one year at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. ^[4] She graduated from Princeton University, with a PhD in 1976.

Academic career

In 1995, Rotroff joined the faculty of the Classics Department at Washington University in St. Louis. ^[4]

Honours

In 1988, she was awarded a fellowship by the MacArthur Fellows Program. ^[5] In 2011 Rotroff was awarded the Gold Medal from the Archaeological Institute of America ^[6] On 10 March 2016, she was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA). ^[7]

Works

• The Athenian Agora XXXIII, Hellenistic Pottery: The Plain Wares, ASCSA, 2006, ISBN  978-0-87661-233-0
• 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, ISBN  978-1-900188-51-7
• Debris from a Public Dining Room in the Athenian Agora. Hesperia, Supplement 25, Authors Susan I. Rotroff, John Howard Oakley, ASCSA, 1992, ISBN  978-0-87661-525-6
• 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, ISBN  978-0-674-01461-9
• Hellenistic relief molds from the Athenian Agora, Volume 23 of Hesperia Supplement, Authors Clairève Grandjouan, Eileen Markson, Susan I. Rotroff, ASCSA, 1989, ISBN  9780876615232
• "Three Centuries of Hellenistic Terracottas", Hellenistic pottery and terracottas, Editors Homer A. Thompson, Dorothy Burr Thompson, Susan I. Rotroff, ASCSA, 1987, ISBN  978-0-87661-944-5
• Hellenistic pottery: Athenian and imported moldmade bowls, Volume 22 of Athenian Agora, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1982, ISBN  978-0-87661-222-4
• Women in the Athenian Agora, Authors Susan I. Rotroff, Robert Lamberton, ASCSA, 2006, ISBN  978-0-87661-644-4
• Megarian bowls in the Athenian agora, Princeton., 1975

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