Curriculum Vitae

Susan C. Jones

c/o Center for the Study of Architecture
P.O. Box 60
Bryn Mawr, PA, 19010
(609) 226-9783
scjones@csanet.org


c/o Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
Bryn Mawr College
101 North Merion Avenue
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010

Experience:

Present - Fall 1995: Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, 19010

Research Associate

Present - Spring 1995: Center for the Study of Architecture, P.O. Box 60, Bryn Mawr, PA, 19010

Administrative Assistant: duties include maintaining the AIA list on the Internet, writing for and preparation of CSA Newsletter, helping to build the World Wide Web site and home pages for the CSA, and designing various data base applications for archaeological projects. Skills include operating various specialized software packages such as AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator, Abode Photoshop, Microsoft Access, and Claris FileMaker.

Present - Fall 2004: Department of Art, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, 08028

Spring 2005, Adjunct lecturer: teaching 1 section of Art Appreciation
Fall 2004, Adjunct lecturer: teaching 1 section of Art Appreciation

Present - Spring 2001: Department of Social Sciences, Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA, 19010

Spring 2004, Adjunct: course taught - General Anthropology
Spring 2003, Adjunct: course taught - General Anthropology
Spring 2002, Adjunct: course taught - General Anthropology
Spring 2001, Adjunct: course taught - General Anthropology

Present-Fall 2001 and Fall 1995 - Spring 1998: Department of Art History, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey, Camden Campus, Camden, NJ, 08102

Spring 2005, Adjunct lecturer: taught Cross-Cultural Art History Survey and guest lecturer for Ancient Greek History taught in the Honors program.
Fall 2004, Adjunct lecturer: teaching 1 section of Introduction to Art History
Summer 2004, Adjunct lecturer: taught 1 section of Introduction to Art History.
Spring 2004, Adjunct lecturer: taught Cross-Cultural Art History Survey.
Fall 2003, Adjunct lecturer: taught 1 section of Introduction to Art History and supervised an independent study in Bronze Age Aegean Pottery.
Fall 2002, Adjunct lecturer: taught a combined graduate and undergraduate course in Ancient Mediterranean Art & Archaeology
Fall 2001, Adjunct lecturer: taught 2 sections of Introduction to Art History (one was primarily over the internet) and supervised an independent study in Classical Greek sculpture.
Fall 1995 - Spring 1998: Adjunct lecturer: courses taught (1) Roman Art and (2) Introduction to Art History.

Spring 1999 - Fall 1998: Anthropology Division of SOBL, The Richard Stockton State College of New Jersey, Jim Leeds Road, Pomona NJ, 08240

Adjunct: courses taught - (1) Early Civilizations: An Introduction to Archaeology and (2) Archaeology of Cult

Summer 1998: Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr PA 19010

Research assistant and computer consultant for Gritille Project

Fall 1994 - Spring 1995: Mainline School Night, P.O. Box 8175, Radnor, PA, 19087

Instructor: courses taught (1) Archaeology of Bronze-Working in the Ancient Mediterranean World, (2) Greek Archaeology, and (3) Mesopotamian Archaeology

1993-1994: Bryn Mawr College and Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287

Research assistant and computer consultant for Tell el-Hayyat excavation and Nemea Project

1970-1986: Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Toledo, Ohio, 43659

Chief Mathematical Business Analyst, Insulating Operating Division and other positions in operations research and planning groups. Responsibilities included: (1) design, production and implementation of various mathematical models for corporate/divisional strategic and operational planning, (2) writing in-house user manuals and teaching user seminars for those models, (3) evaluation of vendor proposals, and (4) group and project leader with all attendant administrative duties

1968-1970: Bechtel Engineering Corp., San Francisco, California

Various positions in construction cost estimating department and computer systems. Responsibilities included: (1) assisting in preparation of estimates of construction costs for contract bids, and (2) scientific programming.

Education:

1988-1995: Bryn Mawr College, Dept. of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology

1995: Ph.D - Dissertation: Crafted Gifts -- an Examination of Free-standing Greek Geometric Anthropomorphic Bronzes; Their Technology, Chronology and Iconography
Advisor: Dr. B.S. Ridgway

1991: Areas of Examinations: Greek Sculpture, Greek Vase Painting, Achaemenid Archaeology, Early Cubism

1990: M.A. - Thesis: Dating the Toledo Youth, Evidence for a Third Century, C.E. Roman Workshop
Advisor: Dr. B.S. Ridgway

1998 and 1993: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Associate member

1991: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Summer session

1986-1988: University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, Undergraduate with degree program - Major in Art History
Courses in Greek Art, Medieval Art, Northern Renaissance Art, Baroque Art, Early Twentith Century Art, and Ancient Glass

1964-1968: Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio

1968: B.A. - Major in Physics and Mathematics

Publications and presentations:

Various articles on the uses of computers in the humanities, in the CSA Newletter, on line at http://csanet.org/newsletter/

"Bronze Vessels from the North Slope of the Athenian Acropolis," poster presentation at the AIA meeting, New York, Dec. 2002

"A Revival in Classicism in East during the Severan Period," in From the Parts to the Whole: Acta of the 13th International Bronze Congress Held at Cambridge, Ma, May 28 - June 1, 1996 (Journal of Roman Archaelogy Supplementary Ser.39), Vol. 2, ed. Carol C. Mattusch, Amy Brauer, Sandra E. Knudson (2002)

"Statues That Kill and the Gods who Love Them," in Stephanos: studies in honor of Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, Kim J. Hartswick and Mary C. Sturgeon, ed. (University Museum, University of Pennsylvania for Bryn Mawr College, 1998)

"A Revival in Classicism in East during the Severan Period," presentation the the 13th International Bronze Congress, Harvard University, May 1996

"Hot Air: Bronze Casting in Early Iron Age Greece," poster presentation at the AIA meeting, San Diego, Dec. 1995

"The Toledo bronze youth and East Mediterranean bronze workshops," Journal of Roman Archaeology 7 (1994) 243-56

Entries in Greek Sculpture in the Art Museum, Princeton University (The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1994) catalog numbers 3, 20, 21 and 25

Presentations at Owens-Corning Fiberglas in-house seminars on the philosophy behind and equations of various mathematical models and their implementation

Presentations at various Owens-Corning Fiberglas user training seminars on running computer simulations associated with proprietary, in-house mathematical models

Honors:

2004: Bildner Diversity Fellow, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey
1988: University of Toledo, Induction into Golden Key

Memberships in Professional Associations:

Archaeological Institute of America. Vice President of Philadelphia Society, Fall 1999-Spring 2003

College Art Association

Classical Association of Atlantic States

Archaeological Society of New Jersey

Archaeological Society of Pennsylvania

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Science

Other Activities:

Present: Reader of manuscripts for professional organizations

1990-1991: Member of steering committee of Graduate Student Association, Bryn Mawr College

1986-1988: Volunteer work for University of Toledo Handicapped Students' Association

Research Interests:

Ancient bronze-working technology and bronze artifacts

Transmission of technologies

Cross cultural influences in visual media

History and iconography of ancient Greek visual arts

Influences of Greek sculpture on Roman art

Modern interpretative theories as applied to ancient art

Ancient glass

Last updated: February, 2005