Alexandra Sanmark | |
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| Born | 1970 (age 55–56) |
| Occupations | Archaeologist Academic |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University College London |
| Thesis | The Christianisation of Scandinavia: a comparative study (2006) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Archaeology |
Sub-discipline | Early-medieval archaeology Iron Age Scandinavia Viking archaeology |
| Institutions | University of the Highlands and Islands Uppsala University |
Alexandra Sanmark FSA FRHistS (b. 1970) is an archaeologist specialising in Iron Age Scandinavia and the Viking Age.
Sanmark took undergraduate and postgraduate study at the University of London before gaining her PhD in 2006 on the Christianisation of Scandinavia from University College London. Sanmark is a Reader in Medieval Archaeology at the University of the Highlands and Islands and associate professor of archaeology at Uppsala University.
She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 2 February 2010, and as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2010.