Dr Cecilia Dal Zovo

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Marie Sklodowska-Curie / UKRI Research Fellow
cecilia.dalzovo@arch.ox.ac.uk

My research interests include visuality, mobility, local networks, long-distance interconnections, oral and mobile societies, sacred and pastoral landscapes, ritual practices, and cosmologies.

My approach is fundamentally interdisciplinary, weaving together tools and perspectives from archaeology, anthropology, geography, archaeoastronomy, as well as photography, art history, Buddhist studies, and linguistics to engage critically with themes of heritage, identity, gender, and human-environment relationship especially in mountain and arid contexts.

Research Areas: Mongolia; Central Eurasia; Europe

Chronology: Bronze and Iron Age; medieval, historical, and contemporary aspects; longue durée

Research Profile

I am a postdoctoral researcher currently holding a Marie Sklodowska-Curie/UKRI Fellowship to develop the TRAILS project, which focuses on the Late Prehistoric rock art of the Gobi-Altai Mountains in Mongolia. My research explores the intersection between rock art, landscape, mobility, and cosmovisions by applying an interdisciplinary, long-term perspective. Here at Oxford, I am also a member of the HorsePower Project (https://www.horsepowerproject.org/).

My academic journey includes an MA in Prehistoric Archaeology from the University of Padova and an MA and PhD in Ancient History and Archaeology from the University of Santiago de Compostela, where I was a researcher at the Institute of Heritage Sciences, Spanish Research Council. I am currently preparing a monograph based on my doctoral thesis, which received the Specialist Dissertation Prize from the ICAS (International Congress of Asia Scholars 2017).

Previously, my exploration of long-distance mobility across Mongolia and Central Eurasia through historical photography and digital archives – in a project titled “Retracing the Northern Silk Road”- has also been supported by an Art and Migration Scholar’s Grant at the Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles).

 

Academia.edu: https://oxford.academia.edu/CeciliaDalZovo

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=6LHh3DwAAAAJ

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