Nassos Papalexandrou is Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History, the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on the material and visual cultures of the Mediterranean in the 1st millennium BCE. He has excavated on Cyprus (Polis tis Chrysochou), Crete (Idaean Cave), and Naxos (Iria). His interests also include the reception of antiquity in the modern era as well as the world of museums and the histories of collections. He is the author of one monograph (The Visual Poetics of Power: Warriors, Youths, and Tripods in Early Greece, 2005) and is currently bringing to completion a second monograph titled Monsters, Fear, and the Uncanny in the Early Mediterranean. He has been a fellow at the Center of Hellenic Studies and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in Washington, D.C. In Spring 2017, he was senior fellow at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens conducting archival research on Antiquities as Diplomatic Gifts in US-Greece Relations in the Post WW II Era.
Affiliation as of June 2025: Professor of Art History in the Department of Art and Art History, The University of Texas at Austin.
Email: papalex@austin.utexas.edu
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