Dr. Annetta Alexandridis

Annetta Alexandridis holds a PhD from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. She studies the art and archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome with a particular interest in gender studies, animal studies, and the media of archaeology. Her current book project focuses on concepts of humans and animals and interrogates how boundaries between both were negotiated in Greek mythological imagery and medical writings. Her co-edited multilingual conference volume on the transgression of species boundaries in Greco-Roman antiquity (Mensch und Tier in der Antike. Grenzziehung und Grenzüberschreitung, Reichelt 2008) deals with similar questions. Alexandridis is an associate director of the Harvard-Cornell Exploration of Sardis, Türkiye (directed by Nicholas Cahill, Madison/Wisconsin). There, she co-conducts (with Susanne Ebbinghaus, Harvard) a survey of the cemeteries to trace the social history of this ancient city at the crossroads between East and West. She considers hands-on work with the material key for her research and teaching as much as interdisciplinary collaboration. At Cornell she co-curates the plaster cast collection with Verity Platt and is also responsible for the coin collection.