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Annetta Alexandridis is an Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art and Visual Studies at Cornell University, affiliated with the College of Arts and Sciences and the Institute for European Studies. She earned her Ph.D. from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, where her dissertation won the Munich University Association's Förderpreis and a German Archaeological Institute travel scholarship.
Her research spans Roman sculpture, Greek mythological iconography, and intersections of gender/animal studies with archaeology. She examines how media like plaster casts and photographs shape archaeological knowledge, particularly through colonialist and Enlightenment discourses. Her current work investigates human-animal boundaries in antiquity and co-directs the Harvard-Cornell Sardis excavation funerary culture survey.
Key publications include
- Destroy the Copy – Plaster Cast Collections in the 19th and 20th Centuries (2022)
- Mensch und Tier in der Antike (2008)
- Archäologie der Photographie (2004)
- Die Frauen des römischen Kaiserhauses (2004)
Scientific honors include:
- 2015–16 Cornell Society for the Humanities Fellow
- 2005–06 Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies Junior Fellow
- 1997–98 German Archaeological Institute travel scholarship
- Munich University Association Förderpreis for dissertation
She co-curates Cornell's plaster cast collection with Verity Platt, advises cross-departmental dissertations, and co-ordinates graduate exchange with Freiburg University. Her teaching integrates material analysis with theoretical approaches to antiquity.
