Zoe Ortiz

Zoe earned her B.A. in Classics from the University of Virginia in 2011. She spent two years teaching Latin in Northern Virginia before moving on to complete a post-baccalaureate in Classical Archaeology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2013-2015. She has excavated at James Madison’s Montpelier, Azoria (Crete), Gabii (Italy), and has conducted pottery research on the island of Kea (Greece). In addition, she has had the opportunity to conduct research as an intern at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France as well as the Vatican Secret Archives in Rome, Italy. Her current research focuses on imperial Roman sculpture, especially from the city of Gabii. She enjoys exploring questions concerning social identity, urban landscape formation, and the presence of the imperial cult in middle-range cities.