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Susan B. Downey, who has a Ph.D. in Classics from Yale University, has taught Art History at UCLA since 1965, becoming a full professor in 1978. As former Chair of the department (1990-1993) and Chair of the Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Archaeology (1996-2001), she has participated actively in the Archaeology Program and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. Since 1988, she has been a member of the Mission Franco-Syrienne de Dura-Europos, excavating in the palace of the Dux Ripae and the Temple of Zeus Megistos. Professor Downey's major publications include two volumes on the sculpture of Dura-Europas (in Syria), a book on Mesopotamian religious architecture after the Greek conquest (Mesopotamian Religious Architecture: Alexander through the Parthians, Princeton University Press, 1988), Architectural Terracottas from the Regia (Ann Arbor 1996), and most recently, Terracotta Figurines and Plaques from Dura-Europos (University of Michigan Press). She has also published a number of articles on sculpture from sites in Syria and Iraq, and reports on her excavations at Dura-Europos. Professor Downey teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Greek and Roman art and archaeology.

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