Jacqueline K. Ortoleva

• University of Cambridge, McDonald Institute of Archaeology, 2019, Visiting Scholar, Cambridge, UK, Sponsor: Dr. Simon Stoddart
• California State University, Department of the Humanities 2012, (Masters) humanities, archaeology/ancient art focus. Pi Lambda Theta honours, Supervisor: Dr. Kirstin Ellsworth
• University of Southern California, USC Rossier, (Masters) behavioural sciences, MFT
• New School for Social Research, Department of Social Sciences, (Masters), Cognitive science, clinical and social psychology.  
• University of Southern California, Department of Humanities (Bachelors), Humanities 

• 2019-present: Etruscan Interest Group, American Institute of Archaeology, Co-chair - The EIG is dedicated to increasing awareness of Etruscan studies among US and international scholars and to promoting the study of the material and cultural history of Etruria.

Previous:

• University of California, Los Angeles, Semel Institute of Neuroscience, Researcher
• RAND, Santa Monica, CA, Researcher

PhD title

Space, Body, and Mind: A New Cognitive Approach to the Etruscan Painted Tomb in Tarquinia and Orvieto

Supervisor

Paul Garwood

Course

Classics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)

My project draws on my background in cognitive science to assess how visual, spatial, and aural characteristics in the Etruscan painted tomb structured conditions of action during the funerary event in Tarquinia and Orvieto. The goal is to approach the burial event from the perspective of the funerary participant via bodily movement and sensory phenomena  

• Seattle Central College, 2010-present (2016 on, online only): Part time (PHL) lecturer, archaeology, humanities (visual culture) courses.       
• Academia.edu: https://birmingham.academia.edu/JacquelineOrtoleva

Grants and fellowships

• 2021-2022: University of Birmingham PGR Grant
• 2018-19: Etruscan Foundation Research Fellowship
• 2019: University of Birmingham PGR Grant
• 2019: University of Birmingham Research Grant
• 2018: SCC Lockwood Grant
• 2018-19: SCC International Research Grant
• 2018: University of Birmingham PGR Grant
• 2017: University of Birmingham PGR Grant
• 2017: SCC Lockwood Grant
• 2016: University of Birmingham PGR Grant
• 2015: National Endowment of the Humanities Fellowship, Ancient Etruria,   Legacy of Rome

Memberships

• American Archaeological Association
• Etruscan Foundation
• WAC-World Archaeological Congress
• European Association of Archaeologists
• Society of American Archaeology
• Etruscan IG, American Archaeological Association
• Women’s Interest Group, American Archaeological Association
• Pi Lambda Theta honours society

University and conference presentations

•  ‘Scale Through Time and Space: Scalar Perception inside the Etruscan Chambered Tomb Space’Colloquium: Dynamics of scale: manipulation, perception, and agency in Pre-Roman Italy. Organisers: Laurel Taylor & J.K. Ortoleva. Archaeological Institute of America, Annual Meeting, January 2022 
• ‘Multisensorial Perception between Etruscan Habitation and Funerary Contexts’ Archaeological Institute of America, Annual Meeting, January 2022 
• ‘Sensing sound: Cognition and the Etruscan funerary space’ Sensing the Past Workshop, invited speaker, University of Amsterdam, October 2021
• ‘Sensing Space: Cognition and the Etruscan Painted Tomb in Tarquinia and Orvieto’ Colloquium: Constructions of Body and the ‘Embodied Mind’ in Pre-Roman Italy.  Organisers: J.K. Ortoleva & P. Gregory Warden.Archaeological Institute of America, Annual Meeting, January 2021
• Boundaries and Bodies: Gender and Sex and the Etruscan Daemon Archaeological Institute of America, Annual Meeting, January 2021 (January 2021)

• The Application of Cognitive Science to Etruscan Funerary Spaces (forthcoming) Archaeological Institute of America, Annual Meeting, Washington DC, January 2020
• Experiencing an Etruscan Tomb: Neuroarchaeology and the Tomba della Quadriga Infernale (Tomb of the Infernal Chariot), 4th c. BCE. McDonald Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K. February, 2019
• Neuroarchaeology and the Tomba della Quadriga Infernale (Tomb of the Infernal Chariot), 4th c. BCE. Archsoc, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, U.K. February, 2019
• Perceptions in Space: Neuroarchaeology and the Etruscan Tomb. Archaeological Institute of America, Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, January, 2019.
• Illusions of Light: A Neuroarchaeological and Performative Approach to the Etruscan Tomb Space. European Association of Archaeologists 24th Annual Meeting, Barcelona, Spain, forthcoming (September, 2018).
• Liminal Bodies and the Etruscan Demon Archaeological Institute of America, Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, January, 2017.
• Crossing Boundaries: A Reevaluation of the Etruscan Demon, Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Conference, Williamsburg, VA, College of William and Mary, March, 2016.
• On the Edge: Sex and Gender and the Etruscan Demon, Archaeological Institute of America, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, January, 2016.
• Demon Figures in Etruria, Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Conference, Boulder, CO, March, 2015.
• Shadows of Power: Female identity and Indigenous Demon Figures in Etruria, Archaeological Institute of America, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January, 2015.
• Truth and Consequence: The Figure of Vanth in Etruria, Classical Association of the Pacific NW and Canadian West Annual Conference. April, 2014.   
• The Female Form in Etruria, Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Conference, April, 2013.
• Etruria: Cultural Exchange and Cultural Distinction, Classical Association of the Canadian West Annual Conference. March, 2013.