Susan is an ancient historian who focuses on the social, cultural, and administrative history of Greco-Roman Egypt. She received both her BA and MA in history from Hunter College, CUNY. Her research interests include documentary papyrology, archives and notarial offices, writing and power, censorship, village life, and state legitimation in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. Her first article considered the agoranomoi (public notaries) in Greco-Roman Egypt and her interest in both public and private writing has led her to the study of state-sanctioned violence against writing and violence from the populace against state-protected writing. As an MA student, Susan excavated at Vindolanda, an experience that has sparked an interest in the relationship between papyri and the material culture that surrounded the texts prior to conservation. Susan is currently continuing her ongoing work on the agoranomoi in the Greek world as well as censorship under the Roman Empire.
