Rate My Professor Alina Kozlovski

Dr. Alina Kozlovski is the Senior Lecturer in Digital Innovation (Ancient History and Archaeology) at the University of New England in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, an MPhil and BA (Honours) from the University of Sydney, and a Graduate Certificate in Educational Studies from the University of Sydney. Prior to her appointment at UNE, she worked in museums in the US, UK, and Australia, including contributions to major 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. Kozlovski has held postdoctoral fellowships at the British School at Rome and the Powerhouse Museum, building a robust foundation in curatorial and museum practices.

Her research focuses on concepts and histories of curation from ancient Greece and Rome to the contemporary world, emphasizing the role of material and digital copies in museum collections. She teaches a range of units, including ANCH111: Introduction to Ancient Rome, ANCH326/526: The Art and Architecture of the Greek and Roman World, ANCH380: Culture and Society in Ancient Greece and Rome, and HINQ303/503: Making Museums Digital. Kozlovski has earned significant recognition, including the 2026 Faculty Citation for Educational Excellence in the Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; the 2025 School Citation for Educational Excellence in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; the 2022 Museums and Galleries National Award for Research (team award for The Invisible Revealed); the 2021 Visiting Research Fellowship at the Powerhouse Museum; the 2019 Hugh Last Rome Award from the British School at Rome; and the 2014-2018 Poynton Scholarship from the Cambridge Australia Trust. Key publications include ‘Ancient Roman house to modern museum: doubling the horizons of immersion through exhibitions’ in Experiencing Immersion in Antiquity and Modernity (2025), ‘Time and technology: the ancient Mediterranean at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney’ in Mediterranean Collections of Australia and Aotearoa (2025), an exhibition review ‘Opening Horizons Between Antiquity and Today at Melbourne Museum’ in the American Journal of Archaeology (2023), ‘How to curate a centaur and other stories of mythmaking in museums’ in Teaching History (2022), and ‘Copies of fakes or fake copies? The bust of Julius Caesar at the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge’ in Cahiers de Mariemont (2021). She has co-curated exhibitions such as Objective Subjective at the New England Regional Art Museum (2024) and Women in the ancient Greek and Roman world at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (2023-24), bridging ancient history with modern digital innovation.