Michelle Alexander (archaeologist)

Michelle Marie Alexander is a British bioarchaeologist. She is Professor of Bioarchaeology at the University of York.

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Early life and education

Alexander graduated with a BSc in archaeology from Durham University in 2005. She completed an MSc in bioarchaeology in 2006, run jointly by the University of Manchester and University of Sheffield. In 2010, she earned a PhD from Durham University.

Career

In 2011, Alexander was appointed as a research fellow in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen. She also held positions as a visiting research fellow at Durham University and a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University. In 2012, she joined the University of York as a Lecturer in Bioarchaeology and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2018. In 2022, she was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

Research

Alexander specialises in the study of medieval diet through stable isotope analysis. She was part of the European Research Council-funded project The Archaeology of Regime Change: Sicily in Transition, which explored population change in medieval Sicily.