BOLINGBROOK, IL, January 31, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Dr. Theodora Hadzisteliou Price has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Born in Athens, Greece, Dr. Price is an accomplished archaeologist, excavator, professor, author, and licensed clinical social worker, as well as the mother of two sons, Alkes D. L. Price, an associate professor of statistical genetics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Associate Member of the Broad Institute of Research of MIT and Harvard, and Morgan N. Price, Computational Biologist and Research Scientist in bacterial genetics at Berkeley.
Dr. Price received a diploma in piano teaching from the National Conservatory of Athens in 1958 and a Bachelor of Arts in History/Archaeology from the University of Athens in 1961. She then worked in the excavations of ancient Brauron, Attica, and the Theater of Dionysos in Athens. In 1962-65 she was the awardee of the Eleftherios Venizelos Scholarship and accepted in the Graduate School at Oxford University, England. In 1963 and in 1964 she was a Meyerstein traveling grant recipient for her research at the University of Oxford, where she earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Classical Archaeology in 1966.
Over the next five years, Theodora Price continued to hone her expertise in the fields of anthropology and archaeology on three continents. First, she moved to Australia where she worked as a museum assistant and resident tutor at the University of Sydney from 1966 to 1967.
Next, Theodora served as an anthropology instructor at New York's Adelphi University from 1967-1968 before heading to Gezer, Israel where she worked for a summer as an archaeologist with Hebrew Union College and Rochester University. For the next two years, from 1968 to 1970, Dr. Price served as assistant professor of classical archaeology/art at the University of Chicago before heading to Washington, D.C. as a resident junior fellow of Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC from 1970 to 1971. Theodora Price published the research she conducted at the institute in the Festschrift, a collection of writings published in honor of scholar Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox, a classicist, author, and critic who served as the Center's first director. Theodora Price was the only woman and the only Greek among eight people from all over the world who received this Junior Fellowship; she was also the youngest. Dr. Price excavated in ancient Pella, the birthplace of Alexander the Great, in North Greece, and published the Heroon of Herakles, which was uncovered there.
Her archaeological career and research was interrupted by the births of two boys, unusually gifted in music and mathematics. She had to concentrate on their upbringing and teaching and serve as an accompanist for their concerts, as well as explore child psychology and early giftedness since the psychologist would tell her that he had no bibliography for them. She volunteered in their various preschools and schools, served on the Board of the Gifted School in Naperville, and did a lot of volunteer counseling for families of gifted children. This was the beginning of her social work. When her children entered the University of Chicago, in Math at 10 and 11, and full time at 11 and 13, she had to be there to chaperone them. So she strengthened her volunteer work by entering herself in the Graduate School, and earned a Master of Arts in Clinical Social Work from the University of Chicago and has maintained a successful private practice focusing on child, adolescent and family therapy since 1990. Over the past 30 years, she has also served as a caseworker, individual and family therapist, clinical supervisor, director of counseling services and psychotherapist, among other roles, for a wide range of organizations including South Central Community Services, Inc. (1994-1997), Catholic Charities (1993-1994), the Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Chicago (1992-1993), Central Baptist Family Services and Gracell Rehabilitation (1991, 1991-1992), Family Link, Inc. (1993), Family Service Centers of South Cook County (1990-1991), Jewish Child & Family Services (1989-1990), Institute for Motivational Development (1989-1990), Family Services of Chicago (no longer operational) and Roberto Clemente High School (1987-88) as Internist of the University of Chicago.
Dr. Price has contributed articles to a variety of professional publications pertaining to Greek art and archaeology. She is also the author of "Kourotrophos: Cults and Representations of the Greek Nursing Deities," a monograph published by Brill in a series of the University of Leiden in 1978.
Dr. Price is a board certified diplomate through the American Board of Clinical Social Workers, as well as a licensed clinical social worker, and a member of Illinois Clinical Social Workers, the National Academy of Clinical Social Workers, and the National Association of Social Workers. In recognition of her achievements, Dr. Hadzisteliou Price has been featured in a wide variety of honors publications, including Who's Who in America, Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in the Midwest and Who's Who in the World. She has also been included in the 1st through 8th editions of Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare, which were published between 1996 and 2011.
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