Olga Palagia is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and is a leading expert on ancient Greek sculpture.
[5][6] Palagia undertook her BA in archaeology and history at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and graduated in 1972.
She moved to the University of Oxford to study for a diploma in classical archaeology followed by a D.Phil., which was awarded in 1977.
Palagia then joined the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens as a lecturer and was awarded tenure in 1983.
[3][11][12] Palagia has held a number of visiting fellowships at international institutions, including the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellowship (Spring 1991) at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC,[13] the Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fund Fellowship (March 1998) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,[14] the Andrew W. Mellon Art History Fellowship (October 2004) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,[15] and the Onassis Visiting Lectureship (2015) at the University of Waterloo, Ontario.