Susan I. Rotroff
		Ph.D Princeton University, 1976 Jarvis Thurston and Mona Van Duyn Professor in the Humanities
	As a member of the Classics Department, Susan Rotroff's main focus is on the ancient Mediterranean, and she teaches courses in ancient Greek as well as in the archaeology of the Greek and Roman worlds. Since 1970, she has been working at the Ancient Agora of Athens, a major, ongoing excavation involved in the archaeological investigation of the center of the ancient city of Athens. Her work there has included both excavation and publication and has focused primarily on ceramics. Since pottery is abundant, serves a range of practical functions, and is subject to rapid change, it is a valuable marker of behavior and offers insight into a broad range of past human activities. Excavations that Dr. Rotroff supervised in the 1970's led to the study and publication of a rich deposit of material (primarily ceramics) that had been used by the public magistrates of Athens in the 5th century BCE. It shed light on the ancient Atehnian custom of public dining, which has developed into a continuing interest of hers. She has recently completed a long-term project publishing the Hellenistic pottery (330-1st century BCE) that has been found at the site. She is also working with colleagues in physical anthropology and zooarchaeology on a well deposit, excavated in the 1930s, which along with ceramics includes the bones of 450 newborn infants and some 150 dogs. Although most of her research has been conducted in Athens, she has also worked on other sites in the Mediterranean, most recently on the islands of Eubola and Samothrace in the Agean, and at Sardis in Turkey. Courses Greek Art and Archaeology Roman Art and Archaeology Ancient Athens Greek and Roman Pottery Ancient Sanctuaries Underwater Archaeology Selected Publications with J.H. Oakley. "Debris from a Public Dining Room in the Athenian Agora." (Hesperia, Supplement 25), Princeton 1992. The Athenian Agora XXIX, Hellenistic Pottery: Athenian and Imported Wheelmade Tableware. Princeton 1997. Wheelmade Tableware, Princeton 1997. with A. Oliver Jr., Sardis Monograph 12: The Hellenistic Pottery from Sardis, Cambridge, MA 2003. Professor Rotroff can be contacted at srotroff@artsci.wustl.edu