Dr. Zoë Kontes
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PhD (Brown University, USA)
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Cultural Heritage (CHTE)
Courses
Zoë Kontes is a Professor of Classics at Kenyon College, and holds a BA from Bowdoin College and a PhD from Brown University. Kontes was awarded a Teaching Fellowship from the Whiting Foundation in 2009, the Kenyon College Trustee Teaching Excellence Award in 2013, and the National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Teaching Professorship from 2022-2025. She is an archaeologist who has excavated in Sicily, Greece and Cyprus, and her courses at Kenyon include surveys of both Greek and Roman art and archaeology, as well as seminars on Sicilian archaeology, Athenian topography and the illegal antiquities trade. These courses are closely tied to her research interests, including issues of cultural property; in 2015 she wrote an op-ed on the repatriation of antiquities for the New York Times. She produces Looted, a podcast series on the illicit trade in classical antiquities, originally supported by a Whiting Foundation Public Engagement Fellowship. Kontes is also a Consulting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and a DJ at WKCO 91.9 FM. She is a CYA alumna and a former member of the Board of Trustees.