Susan Irene Rotroff

Archaeologist Class of 1988
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New York, New York
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41 at time of award
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About Susan's Work

Susan Irene Rotroff is a classical archaeologist whose scholarly study and fieldwork have established critical chronologies for ancient Athenian pottery.

Because her findings utilize not only knowledge of her specialty but also familiarity with literary sources, epigraphy, and numismatics, they have had important ramifications in the field of Hellenistic art and archaeology.  Rotroff is the author of Hellenistic Pottery: Athenian and Imported Moldmade Bowls (1982), Athenian and Imported Wheelmade Table Ware and Related Materials (1997) and Hellenistic Pottery: The Plain Wares (2005).  She is the co-author of several works, including Birds of the Athenian Agora (1985), Debris from a Public Dining Place in the Athenian Agora (1992), and Sardis Monograph 12: The Hellenistic Pottery from Sardis (2003).

Biography

Rotroff is the Jarvis Thurston and Mona Van Duyn Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis.  Since 1970 she has been associated with the Agora Excavations, in Athens, where archaeologists have been investigating the civic center of the ancient town and the domestic and industrial neighborhoods that surrounded it.  She has also worked on excavations at Troy and Sardis in Turkey, and at Carthage, in North Africa.

Rotroff received an A.B. (1968) from Bryn Mawr College, and an M.A. (1972) and Ph.D. (1976) from Princeton University.

Last updated January 1, 2005.

Published on August 1, 1988

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