Alexandra Courcoula is a Research Associate in the Department of Classics. She received her PhD from MIT in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art and from the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture. During her doctoral work she was a fellow at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Before joining Brown she worked as a lecturer at the Boston Architectural College and Hellenic College. She has also worked in numerous museums including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. Her work focuses on the history of collecting and museums, as well as nationalism in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman world and in 19th and 20th century Europe.
