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.^[1]

Cole received her PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1975.^[1] Her doctoral thesis was entitled The Samothracian Mysteries and the Samothracian Gods: Initiates, Theoroi, and Worshippers.^[2]

After graduating, she became Assistant Professor of Classics and Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago.^[1][3] In 1991 she was a Fellow of the Institute of Humanities at UIC.^[4] She published Theoi Megaloi: The Cult of the Great Gods at Samothrace, based on her doctoral dissertation, in 1986.^[5][6] Her second book, Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space: The Ancient Greek Experience, came out in 2004.^[7] She has also worked on pigs in Ancient Greek culture.^[8][9]

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.^[1][10]

Cole was chair of the Society for Classical Studies Committee for Professional Ethics in 1986.^[11] She was Directeur d’Etudes Associé at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études in 1990.^[12] In 1996-97 she was a Fellow of the National Humanities Center.^[13] She has also received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation,^[10] and a grant from the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy.^[14]

• 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.^[5][15] 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.^[16] 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.