Αlexandra Alexandridou
Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology
aalexandr@cc.uoi.gr

She was born in Athens (1980). She completed her undergraduate studies in archaeology at the University of Athens (2002), before following a postgraduate program at the University of Oxford, where she completed her doctoral thesis as a scholar of Greek Scholarship Foundation (2008).
She is a specialist of Greek pottery of the Geometric and early Archaic eras. On the basis of a contextual analysis, she uses pottery as a research tool for the reconstruction of the structures of the early Greek societies.
She has published articles in Greek and international scientific journals. As a field archaeologist, she participates in the systematic excavations of the archaic sanctuary of Despotiko (Antiparos) and the settlement of Thorikos in Laurion of Attica, while studying pottery from different sites.

CURRICULUM VITAE

Education
Undergraduate Studies
University of Athens, Department of History and Archaeology (2002).
Postgraduate Studies
University of Oxford, Institute of Archaeology

•  Master of Studies (MSt) in Classical Archaeology. Supervisor: Prof. D.C. Kurtz (2003-2004).
•  Doctoral thesis (DPhil): Τhe Early Black-figured Pottery of Attika in Context (ca. 630-570 B.C.). Supervisor: Prof. D.C. Kurtz (2008).

Scholarships

• Greek Scholarship Foundation (ΙΚΥ). Scholarship for postgraduate studies outside Greece (2003-2007).

• Hulme Continuation Grant. University of Oxford. Brasenose College (2007).

• University of Athens. Award for admission at the Department of History and Archaeology with panhellenic exams in the 8th place (1998).

Scientific Activities

• Postdoctoral Researcher at the Free University of Brussels (ULB, CReA-Patrimoine) (2012-2016) and the University of Thessaly (2012-2015).
• Thorikos Excavation Project. Director: Prof. R. Docter, University of Ghent and Belgian School  Athens (2015 until today).
• Ανασκαφή ιερού Απόλλωνα στο Δεσποτικό υπό τη διεύθυνση του Γ. Κουράγιου της Εφορείας Αρχαιοτήτων Κυκλάδων (2012 until today).
• Γαλλική Σχολή Αθηνών. Μελέτη υλικού από την Ασπίδα και τη Λάρισσα Άργους (2012 until today).
• Kalaureia Research Program: The Sea, the City and the God. Swedish Institute at Athens (2011-2013).

 Teaching

• Institut de l'Art, Musée du Cinquentenaire, Brussels (2015-2016)
• Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres (2013-2015)
• College Year in Athens (2012-until today)         
• Open University of Cyprus (2010-2017)
• University of Crete (2009-2010)
• University of Peloponnese (2009)
• University of Reading, Classics Department (2007)
• Royal Holloway, University College of London (UCL), Classics Department (2007)
• University of Oxford, Institute of Archaeology (2006)

 Excavations

Thorikos of Attica, Despotiko of Antiparos, Kephala of Skiathos, Vryokastro of Kythnos, Antikythera.

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