Sophie Preiswerk is a doctoral candidate in classical archaeology and an academic assistant at the University of Zurich. She obtained her BA and MA degrees at Heidelberg University and conducted research at the Sorbonne and Yale University. Her doctoral project examines processes of figuration in Archaic Greek marble sculpture, focusing on how images emerge through the interplay of material, craftsmanship, and making. During her fellowship at Bard Graduate Center, she will advance this research through the analysis of a corpus of unfinished Archaic Greek sculptures documented during her fieldwork in Greece. By investigating how sculpture was created through processes of assembling, joining, and finishing individual parts and surfaces, she seeks to understand how sculptural bodies in sixth-century BCE Greece were brought into being. Her broader interests include image studies in classical archaeology, production aesthetics, and the history of archaeological scholarship, particularly the construction of the Greek “Archaic” in texts and photography in twentieth-century Germany. Her previous research explored the aesthetic and material dimensions of inscriptions on Archaic Greek votive statues.