Alexandra Germer is a Ph.D. candidate in modern and contemporary art, primarily interested in provenance research, the history of museums, and the history of the art market in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her dissertation, which addresses the interface of provenance and authenticity in the interwar period, has been supported by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and by a Donald and Mary Hyde Academic-Year Fellowship for Research Abroad. 

She received her B.A. with honors in art history and with a concentration in German from Columbia University, and an M.Phil. in modern European history from the University of Cambridge, funded by the Ivan D. Jankovic Award. Prior to starting at Princeton, she worked as a Nazi-era provenance researcher in London, and maintains an active provenance research practice, working for claimants, lawyers, and museum collections internationally.