Susan Guettel Cole
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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.{{Cite web|url=http://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/classics/faculty/emeriti.html|title=Emeriti|website=arts-sciences.buffalo.edu|language=en|access-date=2019-02-21}}{{Infobox academic|honorific_prefix=|image=|birth_date=|birth_place=|death_date=|death_place=|nationality=|occupation=|spouse=|alma_mater=University of Minnesota|thesis_title=|thesis_year=1975|discipline=Classics; Ancient Greek Religion|workplaces=University of Illinois at Chicago; University at Buffalo|doctoral_students=|notable_works=Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space: The Ancient Greek Experience (2004)}}
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.{{cite web |title=The Samothracian mysteries and the Samothracian gods: initiates, theoroi, and worshippers |url=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 |website=University of Minnesota |access-date=26 July 2023 |language=en |date=1975}}
Career
After graduating, she became Assistant Professor of Classics and Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago.{{Cite web|url=https://gws.uic.edu/about-gws/gws-history/|title=UIC GWS History|website=Gender and Women's Studies|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-21}} In 1991 she was a Fellow of the Institute of Humanities at UIC.{{Cite web|url=https://huminst.uic.edu/ifth/events/fellows-lectures/1990-1991|title=1990-1991 Institute Fellows Lectures|website=huminst.uic.edu|access-date=2019-02-21}} She published Theoi Megaloi: The Cult of the Great Gods at Samothrace, based on her doctoral dissertation, in 1986.{{Cite book|url=https://brill.com/view/title/2754|title=Theoi Megaloi: The Cult of the Great Gods at Samothrace|last=Cole|first=Susan Guettel|date=2015-11-16|publisher=BRILL|isbn=9789004296473|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L-UUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1|title=Theoi Megaloi: The Cult of the Great Gods at Samothrace|last=Cole|first=Susan Guettel|date=1984-01-01|publisher=Brill Archive|isbn=9789004068858|language=en}} Her second book, Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space: The Ancient Greek Experience, came out in 2004.{{Cite book|url=https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520235441/landscapes-gender-and-ritual-space|title=Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space|date=March 2004 |isbn=9780520235441 |language=en|last1=Cole |first1=Susan Guettel }} She has also worked on pigs in Ancient Greek culture.{{Cite web|url=http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2000/01/4568.html|title=One Little Piggy Went To Temple, Same Little Piggy Was Lunch|website=www.buffalo.edu|language=en|access-date=2019-02-21}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2000/08/4837.html|title=Hog Wild in Athens B.C.E.! Role of Pigs in Social and Religious Life Provides Insights into Ancient Greece|website=www.buffalo.edu|language=en|access-date=2019-02-21}}
In 1992 she joined the Department of Classics at the University at Buffalo, where she was Chair of the department from 1994 to 1995 and again 1998–2004.{{Cite web|url=http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/1998/10/4105.html|title=Susan Cole to Head UB Classics Department|website=www.buffalo.edu|language=en|access-date=2019-02-21}}
Cole was chair of the Society for Classical Studies Committee for Professional Ethics in 1986.{{Cite web|url=https://classicalstudies.org/about/scs-statement-professional-ethics|title=SCS Statement on Professional Ethics|date=2013-05-28|website=Society for Classical Studies|access-date=2019-02-21}} She was Directeur d’Etudes Associé at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études in 1990.{{Citation|title=Front Matter|date=2009-12-18|work=Geography and Ethnography|pages=i–xvii|editor-last=Raaflaub|editor-first=Kurt A.|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|language=en|doi=10.1002/9781444315653.fmatter|isbn=9781444315653|editor2-last=Talbert|editor2-first=Richard J. A.|doi-access=free}} In 1996-97 she was a Fellow of the National Humanities Center.{{Cite web|url=http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2009/05/10111.html|title=UB's Bacigalupo Named 2009-10 Resident Fellow of the National Humanities Center|website=www.buffalo.edu|language=en|access-date=2019-02-21}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/research/g-recipients.html|title=Baldy Center Grant Recipients|website=www.buffalo.edu|language=en|access-date=2019-02-21}}
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.{{Cite journal|last=Tomlinson|first=R. A.|date=1988|title=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.|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-hellenic-studies/article/cole-s-g-theoi-megaloi-the-cult-of-the-great-gods-at-samothrace-etudes-preliminaires-aux-religions-orientales-dans-lempire-romain-96-leiden-brill-1984-pp-xix-193-6-plates-3-maps-1-plan-fl-76/7FE51EC5BAC259A7BE474EFF727DFD89|journal=The Journal of Hellenic Studies|language=en|volume=108|pages=246–247|doi=10.2307/632682|jstor=632682|s2cid=163694703 |issn=2041-4099|url-access=subscription}} {{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.{{Cite journal|last=Lape|first=Susan|date=2004|title=Review of: Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space: the Ancient Greek Experience|url=http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2004/2004-09-18.html|journal=Bryn Mawr Classical Review|issn=1055-7660}} {{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.
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