Alessandra Dominguez (she/her) received her B.A. in Anthropology and Honors Art History with minors in Archaeology and Italian, in addition to a Bridging Disciplines Program certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Texas at Austin (Spring 2023). She has excavated at Sədərək in Azerbaijan, Morgantina in Sicily, Bat in Oman, and Qach Resh in Iraqi Kurdistan. Alessandra has held various positions in museum institutions and art galleries concerning DAEI, curation, education, and provenance.
Alessandra’s areas of research are concentrated in the ancient Middle East, where she focuses on human-environmental interactions and how changing environments influence ideas of landscape and material production. Her undergraduate senior thesis focused on how the volatile paleoclimate of southern coastal Peru influenced the Nasca culture’s perception of landscape, which presented as naturalism on ceramic iconography. She is pursuing further training in archaeobotany, specifically macrobotany and phytoliths.