After working in New York City as an architectural designer, and after as a registered architect, in she returned to an earlier career interest: archaeology. With an undergraduate degree from Brown University in Ancient and Medieval Culture graduating magna cum laude in , Riorden had always sustained an deep interest in the built environment of past civilizations; in she was invited to participate in the newly resumed excavations at Troy, in Northwest Turkey, as a collaborator to the late Prof.
Brian Rose, then of the University of Cincinnati. At Troy she pursued field documentation, architectural studies, and site conservation, this last under the mentoring of an older generation of international Bauforscher and conservators consulting for the Troy project. Her Troy drawings and articles are published in numerous volumes of Studia Troica.
This work was expanded in the new millennium, in collaboration with Dr. Kress Foundation, Riorden and a team of two University of Cincinnati graduate architecture students spent the season at Troy preparing material and conducting observational and other studies for the Master Plan, which Riorden completed in Kress Fellowship in Historic Preservation where her Fellowship project involved a study of roof interventions in sensitive archaeological sites. She has given numerous public lectures on her work in Turkey and France, and is currently working on several manuscripts, on architectural and urban topics ranging from the Early Bronze Age cities of the Aegean, to diachronic analyses of Mediterranean cities.
Peterson Prize. Official review of programs supported by Ohio Humanities Council. Investigators:Elizabeth Riorden and Jeffrey T. Byzas , , 9 , Studia Troica, , 17 , Studia Troica, , 6 , Elizabeth Riorden and Friedmund Hueber Studia Troica, , 4 , Elizabeth Riorden, and Jeffrey T. Tilman; to be translated into French by Kirsten Koehler. Elizabeth Riorden Metis: the complexities of depicting versus measuring, at Troy, and elsewhere. Hanover College, Madison, Indiana.
Why Site Management Plans matter. The University of Texas, Austin. University of Cincinnati, Department of Anthropology. The Smithsonian, Washington DC. Elizabeth Riorden and Betsey Robinson The American Academy in Rome,. At the restored Odeion of Troy, Turkey,. Williams College, MA. Paper reviewer, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, , and meetings.
