Education
University of Nottingham, UK 2007-2009
Post Graduate Certificate in Education
University of Cincinnati, USA 1996 - 2004. Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology
Lincoln College, University of Oxford, UK 1995 - 1996 M.St. in Roman Architecture and Hellenistic Art and Archaeology
Dartmouth College, USA 1991-1995
B.A. in Classical Archaeology and
Biochemistry/Molecular Biology.
Research and Work Experience
West Point Grey Academy, Vancouver, Canada, Teacher of English, Latin and History 2011-Present
Dagfa School Nottingham, UK, Head of Physics, 2009-2011
University of Nottingham, Departments of Archaeology and Classics, UK, Visiting Lecturer 2002-2006
University of Cincinnati, Department of Classics, USA 1996-2001
• Research Assistant to Professors C. Brian Rose and Getzel Cohen
• Teaching Assistant for Roman Art and Archaeology Course and Medical Terminology
• Assistant Editor of NESTOR, monthly bibliography of the Bronze Age Aegean
• Slide Curator for Troy Project
Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Cincinnati, OH, USA 1997-2000
•Translated French manuscripts to English and edited contributions to the “Women Pioneers in Archaeology Project” volumes
• Co-ordinated and conducted video interviews with archaeologists in the United Kingdom for the “Women in Archaeology Project”
Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH, USA
• Numismatics Intern 1994-1995
Dartmouth College, Department of Classics, Hanover, NH, USA 1993-1995
• Drill Instructor for Ancient Greek
-Organic Chemistry Laboratory Supervisor
• Presidential Scholar Research Assistant to the Late Professor Emeritus Matthew Wiencke
Field Experience in Archaeology
Petras Excavations, Crete , 2015 - Present, Trench Supervisor
Cornell Halai and East Locris Project, 2002 – 2007, Director of the Halai Archaeological Project
Corinth Excavations of the ASCSA 2002, Trench Supervisor
Greek-American Excavations at Halasmenos, Crete, 2001, Trench Supervisor and Pottery Administrator
Cortona Excavations of the University of Alberta, 1999 Trench Supervisor
Janiculum Mills Excavations at the American Academy in Rome, 1998 Excavator
Troy Excavations of the University of Cincinnati, 1997
Pottery Analyst and Ceramics Co-Registrar
Palaikastro Excavations of British School at Athens, 1996
Video Notebook Editor and Darkroom Supervisor
Agora Excavations of the ASCSA Summers 1994 and 1995 Excavator
Awards
- Louise Taft Semple Fellowship, University of Cincinnati 1996 - 2004
- University of Cincinnati Tuition Scholarship 1996 - 2004
- Cedric Boulter Fellowship for doctoral research 2003
- Samuel Kress Travel Fellowship for doctoral research 2001-2002
- Dorot Foundation Graduate Student Travel Awards 2002, 2003, and 2004
- University of Cincinnati Graduate Student Council Scholarship 2001
- University Research Council Summer Fellowship 2001
- ASCSA Field Scholarship 2000
- American Academy at Rome Mary A. Sollman Scholarship 1998
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Lincoln College, Oxford, Graduate Research Award 1996
- Dartmouth General Fellowship for graduate research at Oxford 1995
- Presidential Scholar, Dartmouth College 1993 - 1995
- Raynolds Expedition Fund Grant, Rockefeller Centre, Dartmouth College 1994
- Academic Citations from Dartmouth College in Ancient Greek, Physics, and Greek Mythology
- Independent Study on Foreign Study Programme 1993-1995
- Headmaster's Award, Lycée canadien en France 1991
Publications:
Journal Articles
Lesk, Alexandra L. “Caryatides probantur inter pauca operum: Pliny, Vitruvius and the Semiotics
of the Erechtheion Maidens at Rome,” Arethusa 40 (2007): 25-42. PDF DOCUMENT
Conference Papers
Lesk, Alexandra L. “New Images of the Erechtheion by European Travellers,” in SOMA 2003 Symposium
on Mediterranean Archaeology, edited by Camilla Briault, Jack Green, Anthi Kaldelis and Anna Stellatou,
BAR S1391 (2005): 85-92. PDF DOCUMENT
“The Anatomical Votive Terracotta Phenomenon: the Complexities of the Corinthian Connection,
” in SOMA 2001 Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology, edited by G. Muskett, A. Koltsida and
M. Georgiadis, BAR S1040 (2002): 193-202. PDF DOCUMENT
Conference Abstracts
Lesk, Alexandra L. “Hellenistic Kings on the Athenian Akropolis: Re-dating the Repairs to the Erechtheion,”
Abstracts-Archaeological Institute of America
106th Annual Meeting 28 (2005): 91. PDF DOCUMENT
“Graffiti on the Erechtheion,” Abstracts-Archaeological Institute of America 105th Annual Meeting 27
(2004): 23-24. PDF DOCUMENT
“The Roman Reception of the Erechtheion: Athens, Rome and Spain,”Abstracts-Archaeological
Institute of America 104th Annual Meeting 26 (2003): 7-8. PDF DOCUMENT
“An Obsession with Symmetry: Placing Harriet Boyd Hawes’ Unpublished Treatise on the Riddle
of the Erechtheion,” AJA 106 (2002): 296. PDF DOCUMENT
Lesk, Alexandra L. A Diachronic Examination of the Erechtheion and Its Reception. Ph.D. Thesis,
University of Cincinnati, 2004. LINK
The Anatomical Votive Terracotta Phenomenon: Healing Sanctuaries in the Etrusco-Latial-Campanian
Region during the Fourth through First Centuries B.C. Master’s Thesis, University of Cincinnati, 1999.
PDF DOCUMENT
Amphiaraos and Asklepios: A Comparative Study of
their Sanctuaries at Oropos and Kos, Undergraduate
Thesis, Dartmouth College, 1995.
Other
Blomerus, Paul and Alexandra L. Lesk, "Using AutoCAD to Construct a 4D Block-by-Block Model of the
Erechtheion on the Akropolis at Athens, II: Connecting a Database to an AutoCAD Model", CSA Newsletter
XX (2008) No. 3. LINK
Blomerus, Paul and Alexandra L. Lesk, "Using AutoCAD to Construct a 4D Block-by-Block Model of
the Erechtheion on the Akropolis at Athens, I: Modeling the Erechtheion in Four Dimensions", CSA
Newsletter XX (2007) No. 2. LINK
Gran-Aymerich, Eve. “Jean Dieulafoy” Alexandra L. Lesk and Paul Blomerus, Trans., in Breaking
Ground: Pioneering Women Archaeologists: Volume I, Getzel Cohen and Martha Joukowsky, eds.,
University of Michigan Press, 2004: 34-67. LINK
Conference Papers
Hegemony and Cornucopia: Classical Scholarship and the Ideology of Imperialism, University
of Nottingham, “Greek Identity, the British Empire and the Exploitation for the Elgin Marbles,”
10 December 2005.
Archaeological Institute of America 106th Annual Meeting, Boston, “Hellenistic Kings on the
Athenian Akropolis: Re-dating the Repairs to the Erechtheion,” 8 January 2005.
PDF DOCUMENT
Myth and Image: Augustan Rome, Egypt and the East, University of Wales Aberystwyth, “The Reception of Vitruvius: the Conflation of ‘Caryatid’ and the Erechtheion ‘Korai’ in Augustan Rome, 9 July 2004.
Archaeological Institute of American 105th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, “Graffiti on the Erechtheion,” 3 January 2004. PDF DOCUMENT
Classical Association Centenary Conference, University of Warwick, “The Lamp of Kallimachos
and the Erechtheion,” 13 April 2003.
Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology, Seventh Annual Meeting of Postgraduate Researchers, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, “New Images of the Erechtheion by European Travellers” 22 February, 2003.
Archaeological Institute of America 104th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, “The Roman Reception of the Erechtheion –Athens, Rome and Spain,” 4 January 2003.
15th Symposium of History and Art, Reusing the Past, Monemvasia, Greece, “Erechtheion Maidens:
The Reception of Vitruvius in post-Classical Architecture” 20 July 2002.
Archaeological Institute of America 103rd Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, “An Obsession with
Symmetry: Placing Harriet Boyd Hawes’ Unpublished Treatise on the Riddle of the Erechtheion” 6 January 2002. PDF DOCUMENT
Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology, Fifth Annual Meeting of Postgraduate Researchers,
University of Liverpool, “The Anatomical Votive Terracotta Phenomenon in Central Italy: The
Corinthian Connection” 24 February 2001.
Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology, Fifth Annual Meeting of Postgraduate Researchers,
University of Liverpool, “Urban Dynamics and State Formation” Session Chair, 24 February 2001.
First Annual Graduate Research/Scholarship Forum, University of Cincinnati, Poster Session:
“The Anatomical Votive Terracotta Phenomenon in Central Italy: The Corinthian Connection”
4 April 2000.