Dr Alina Kozlovski

Lecturer, Digital Innovation (Ancient History and Archaeology) - School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Phone: +61 2 6773 1364

Biography

Dr Alina Kozlovski is the Lecturer of Digital Innovation (Ancient History and Archaeology) at the University of New England. Prior to this role, she worked in museums in the US, UK, and Australia including on exhibitions such as Buried by Vesuvius: Treasures from the Villa dei Papiri at the Getty Villa and The Invisible Revealed at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. She completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the British School at Rome and at the Powerhouse Museum. Her research focuses on concepts and histories of curation, starting from ancient Greece and Rome to the contemporary world, and on the role of copies, both material and digital, in museum collections.

Qualifications

PhD (Cambridge), MPhil (USyd), BA(Hons) (USyd), GradCert(EduStud) (USyd)

Awards

2022 Museums and Galleries National Award for Research (Team award for The Invisible Revealed exhibition, Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences)

2021 Visiting Research Fellowship, Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney

2019 Hugh Last Rome Award, British School at Rome, Italy

2018-2019 Graduate Internship Grant, J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, USA

2014-2018 Poynton Scholarship, Cambridge Australia Trust

2012 Dean’s Citation for Excellence in Tutorials (teaching award), University of Sydney

2011-2012 Australian Postgraduate Award, University of Sydney

2010 Britta Petzl Memorial Prize in Ancient History, University of Sydney

Teaching Areas

ANCH111: Introduction to Roman history

ANCH326/526: The art and architecture of the Greek and Roman world

HINQ303/503: Making museums digital

Publications

Selected publications

2023 Exhibition review: ‘Opening Horizons Between Antiquity and Today at Melbourne Museum’ American Journal of Archaeology 127(4): 585–592.

2022 ‘How to curate a centaur and other stories of mythmaking in museums’ Teaching History 56(3): 4-9

2021 ‘Copies of fakes or fake copies? The bust of Julius Caesar at the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge’ Cahiers de Mariemont 43: 132-134.

2020 Research Report: ‘Remembering Romulus: curatorial approaches to regal Rome’ Papers of the British School at Rome 88: 388-389.

2018 Book review: Higbie, C. 2016. Collectors, Scholars, Forgers in the Ancient World, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.03.39.

2014 ‘Exhibition review: Lego Acropolis’, Melbourne Historical Journal 42(2): 93-7.

2014 ‘Mapping the ancient world’, Muse 9: 14-15. (Sydney University Museums magazine)

Selected blog posts

2022 ‘The New England Regional Art Museum’, Mainly Museums blog

2020 ‘Bibliographies and the past pitfalls of being a Mrs’, History of Women in Ancient World Studies blog

2019 Exhibition review: ‘Pompei e Santorini: L’eternità in un giorno’ at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome, ‘Life at the BSR’, British School at Rome blog

2019 ‘Ancient ruins – parts of the past as well as the present’, Getty Iris

2019 ‘When did Vesuvius erupt? The evidence for and against August 24’ (co-author), Getty Iris

2017 ‘Finding Forgeries at the Museum of Classical Archaeology’, Res Gerendae, University of Cambridge

2017 ‘Finding your PhD muses: curating your thesis for a different medium’, Pubs and Publications, University of Edinburgh

2017 ‘A world of (too?) many Pompeiis?’, Res Gerendae, University of Cambridge

2016 ‘Lego, Pompeii, and the power of anachronism’, Res Gerendae, University of Cambridge

Museum exhibitions/displays

2023- Women in the ancient Greek and Roman world, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, USA (Curator)

2021-22 Art of the ancient Mediterranean and the ancient Americas, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, USA (Curator)

2021-22 The Invisible Revealed, Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney, Australia (Assistant Curator)

2017-2018 Finding Forgeries, Museum of Classical Archaeology, University of Cambridge, UK (Curator)

Other media

2023 Invited guest, ‘Anders at the Museum’ Real is Not Real Enough Research Project Companion Podcast episode, University of Sydney and Macquarie University

2022 Invited guest, ‘Plaster cast of the Boston Throne relief’ Object Matterspodcast episode, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney