Annetta Alexandridis
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Annetta Alexandridis (1968–2026) was a classical archaeologist and art historian at Cornell University, New York. Her research focused on the art of ancient Greece and Rome with a particular interest in gender studies, animal studies, and the media of archaeology.
Alexandridis received her PhD from the University of Munich in 2002.[1] Her doctoral thesis was Von Livia bis Iulia Domna: die Frauen des römischen Kaiserhauses in statuarischer, epigraphischer und numismatischer Überlieferung.[2] Her dissertation received the dissertation prize (Förderpreis) of Munich University Association and was awarded the travel scholarship of the German Archaeological Institute 1997–98).[1] Before completing her PhD, Alexandridis studied French language and music at the Sorbonne (1986-87) and then concentrated on classical archaeology, ancient history and art history at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris and the University of Perugia.[3]
Career and research
Alexandridis began her career at the University of Rostock before working at the Collection of Classical Antiquities, Antikensammlung and Pergamonmuseum Berlin (Pergamon Museum). She joined the Department of the History of Art, College of Arts and Sciences, at Cornell University in 2006. She was Associate Director of the ongoing excavations at ancient Sardis, Turkey, where she studied Roman funerary culture and was surveying Sardis's cemeteries.
Alexandridis co-edited the book Destroy the Copy – Plaster Cast Collections in the 19th-20th Centuries in 2023. In 2004, she wrote the book Die Frauen des Römischen Kaiserhauses, which explored how women in Roman Imperial families were represented in public. With Verity Platt, Alexandridis co-curated Cornell’s plaster-cast collection.
Alexandridis was a fellow at Cornell’s Society for the Humanities (2015-16) and a junior fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies (2005-06).[3][4]
She died 13 April 2026 at the age of 58.[3]
