[2] Alcock was Special Counsel for Institutional Outreach and Engagement and Professor of Classical Archaeology and Classics at the University of Michigan and became the Interim Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Michigan - Flint in July 2018.
[3] From 1979 to 1983, Alcock studied at Yale University, graduating summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Archaeology and History.
[4] She remained at Cambridge to undertake postgraduate research, and completed her PhD in 1989 with a doctoral thesis titled "Greek society and the transition to Roman rule".
[4][5] Alcock served as the Director of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World and Professor of Classics at Brown University from January 2006 until 2015.
[8] In 2018 Alcock was appointed as the interim provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Michigan-Flint.