Erin Walcek Averett, PhD

Department

Fine & Performing Arts

Position

Professor

Books

• Ancient Art Revisited: Global Perspectives from Archaeology and Art History
  Erin Walcek Averett, , p. 170-198 2023
• The Digital Press, University of North Dakota
  Derek B. Counts, Erin Walcek Averett Visualizing Votive Practice: Limestone and Terracotta Sculpture from Athienou-Malloura Through 3D Models 2019
• The Digital Press, University of North Dakota
  Erin Walcek Averett, Jody Michael Gordon, and Derek B. Counts Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future: the Potential of Digital Archaeology 2016

Articles

• Erin Walcek Averett, “Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from Cyprus.” In Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from the Levant in Context, Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 125, edited by Erin Darby and Izaak de Hulster., p. 292-332 2021
• World Archaeology
  Erin Walcek Averett, Worked bucrania and figural representations of masked men dating from the 12th-5th centuries BCE provide striking evidence for ritual performances using animal masks in ancient Cyprus. This study flips the traditional approach to this rich body of material. Rather than focusing on the cult or the socio-political contexts of these performances, I instead explore the production of zoomorphic masks and the impact of masking on the wearer. Drawing on new approaches pioneered in social zooarchaeology and using New Materialities perspectives, this analysis delves deeper into the human-animal relationship in Cyprus and how that was expressed in masking ceremonies. Moving beyond simplistic associations of bull masks with a vaguely defined bull god, this study argues for a more complex and integrated relationship between humans and the natural world that was expressed in Cypriot religion through divine animal attributes, animal sacrifice and feasting, and zoomorphic masking rituals.
  52, p. 724-745 2021
• Brill
  Erin Walcek Averett, 'Iron Age Terracotta Figurines in Cyprus.' In Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from the Levant in Context. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 125, edited by Erin Darby and Izaak de Hulster, p. 292332 2021
• Near Eastern Archaeology
  Kevin Garstki, Derek B. Counts, Erin Walcek Averett, Sarah Kansa, Eric Kansa “A Square Peg in a Round Hole: Rethinking Archaeological Publication.”
  83, p. 264-269 2020
• Brill
  Erin Walcek Averett, Theriomorphic Figures in Hellenistic and Roman Arcadia: Nostalgia and Ritual. In Hellenistic and Roman Terracottas. Monumenta Graeca et Romana 23, edited by Giorgos Papantoniou, Demetrios Michaelides, and Maria Dikomitou-Eliadou., p. 165-179 2019
• Walter de Gruyter
  Erin Walcek Averett, Derek B. Counts Scaling Religious Practice from Landscape to Artifact: Digital Approaches to Ancient Cyprus.' in Digital Humanities and Research Methods in Religious Studies, edited by K. Petersen and C. Cantwell
  2, p. 167-196 2019
• Mohr Siebeck
  Erin Walcek Averett, Playing the Part: Masks and Ritual Performance in Rural Sanctuaries in Iron Age Cyprus.' In The Physicality of the Other. Masks from the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean. Orientalische Religionen in der Antike 27, edited by A. Berlejung and J. Filitz, p. 305-337 2018
• The Digital Press, University of North Dakota
  Jody M. Gordon, Erin Walcek Averett, Derek B. Counts 'Mobile Computing in Archaeology: Exploring and Interpreting Current Practices.' In Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future: The Potential of Digital Archaeology, edited by E.W. Averett, J.M. Gordon, and D.B. Counts, p. 1-28 2016
• The Digital Press, University of North Dakota
  Jody M. Gordon, Erin Walcek Averett, Derek B. Counts, Kyo Koo, Michael K. Toumazou 'DIY Digital Workflows on the Athienou Archaeological Project, Cyprus.' In Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future: The Potential of Digital Archaeology, edited by E.W. Averett, J.M. Gordon, and D.B. Counts., p. 111-141 2016
• Academic Press
  Derek B. Counts, Erin Walcek Averett, Kevin Garstki A Fragmented Past: (Re)Constructing Antiquity Through 3D Artefact Modelling and Customised Structured Light Scanning at Athienou-Malloura, Cyprus [co-authored by Erin Walcek Averett, D.B. Counts, and K. Gartski].
  349, p. 206-218 2016
• American Journal of Archaeology
  Erin Walcek Averett, “Masks and Ritual Performance on the Island of Cyprus,” American Journal of Archaeology
  119.1, p. 3-45 2015
• Journal of Field Archaeology
  Michael K. Toumazou, Derek B. Counts, Erin Walcek Averett, Jody M. Gordon, and P.N. Kardulias 'Shedding Light on the Cypriot Rural Landscape: Investigations of the Athienou Archaeological Project in the Malloura Valley, Cyprus, 2011-2013.'
  40:2, p. 204-220 2015
• Journal of Hellenic Studies
  Erin Walcek Averett, Review of Papantoniou, G., Religion and Social Transformations in Cyprus. From the Cypriot Basileis to the Hellenistic Strategos (Mnemosyne Supplements 347). Leiden: Brill, 2012.
  134, p. 243-244 2014
• Erin Walcek Averett, Brian Martens Antiquity Depicted: the Drawings of Katherine Schwab and the Tradition of Archaeological Illustration in Greece, in An Archaeologists Eye: the Parthenon Drawings of Katherine A. Schwab, edited by G. Bucher and J. Deupy. Fairfield University Press. 2014
• American Schools of Oriental Research
  Erin Walcek Averett, 'The Ritual Context of the Malloura Terracotta Figurines.' In Crossroads and Boundaries: The Archaeology of Past and Present in the Malloura Valley, Cyprus, edited by M. K. Toumazou, P.N. Kardulias, and D. B. Counts. American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Series 65., p. 133-147 2011
• MVSE. Annual of the Museum of Art and Archaeology
  Erin Walcek Averett, Drumming for the Divine: a Female Tympanon Player in the Museum of Art and Archaeology, MVSE. Annual of the Museum of Art and Archaeology
  36-39, p. 15-28 2004

Publications

• National Endowment for the Humantiies
  Erin Walcek Averett, Jody M. Gordon, Derek B. Counts “Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future: The Potential of Digital Archaeology,” National Endowment for the Humanities White Paper, Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant #HD-51851-14. https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:12289/ 2016
• The Association for Coroplastic Studies News and Notes
  Erin Walcek Averett, Derek B. Counts (Re)Constructing Antiquity: 3D Modeling the Terracotta Figurines from Athienou-Malloura, Cyprus, The Association for Coroplastic Studies News and Notes
  12, p. 15-17 2014

Editing and Reviews

• American Journal of Archaeology
  Review of Smith, J. 2009. Art and Society in Cyprus from the Bronze Age into the Iron Age. Cambridge UP. http://ajaonline.org/online-review-book/883.
  115 2011

Presentations

• "Gendering Figurines: Sex, Gender, and Ideology in Figurine Studies," Terracottas in the Mediterranean Through Time Conference, 23-25 March 2015, University of Haifa, Israel. Sponsored by the Zinman Institute of Archaeology and the Department of Art History, University of Haifa, and the Association for Coroplastic Studies. Haifa, Israel. [co-authored by Erin Walcek Averett and Erin Darby]. 2015
• "Monsters and Apotropaism in Iron Age Cyprus," University of Massachusetts-Amherst Colloquium on 'Classical Monsters and their Afterlife', 8 November 2014. Amherst, MA. [co- authored with D.B. Counts]. 2014
• "(Re)Constructing Antiquity: 3D Modeling and Cypriot Votive Sculpture from Athienou- Malloura," Archaeological Institute of America 116th Annual Meeting: New Orleans. [co-authored by Erin Walcek Averett, D.B. Counts, K. Gartski, M.K. Toumazou, and C. Ewers.]
• "Piecing Together the Past: 3D Modeling and Cypriot Votive Sculpture from Athienou, Cyprus," American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting: San Diego [co-authored by Erin Walcek Averett, D. Counts, and M. Toumazou].
• "Athienou Archaeological Project, 2013: Investigations at Athienou-Malloura, Cyprus," Archaeological Institute of America 115th Annual Meeting: Chicago [co-authored by M.K. Toumazou, D.B. Counts, Erin Walcek Averett, and J. Gordon].
• "Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future: the Potential of Digital Archaeology," National Endowment for the Humanities Project Directors Meeting: Washington, D.C.
• "Sacred Space and Ritual Practice in Rural Cyprus: the Athienou Archaeological Project," The University of South Dakota public lecture.
• "Frightening the Frightful: Grotesque Images in Iron Age Cyprus," University of South Dakota Humanities and the Arts public lecture.
• "The Athienou Archaeological Project: 2013-14 Seasons," 31st Annual CAARI/Department of Antiquities Archaeological Workshop: Nicosia, Cyprus [co-authored by M.K. Toumazou, D.B. Counts, Erin Walcek Averett, and P.N. Kardulias].
• "Sacred Space and Ritual Practice in Rural Cyprus: Investigations of the Athienou Archaeological Project," [co-authored by D. Counts and Erin Walcek Averett]. Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments, University of Kentucky.
• "Poseidon and the Sea: Myth, Cult, and Daily Life" Presentations: 3 Gallery Talks for the Late Til' Eight Joslyn Art Museum: Omaha, NE. Expanded Version for Docent Training Lecture, Joslyn Art Museum: Omaha, NE. Jefferson Square Business Association Meeting. University of Nebraska Medical Center Passport Partners Program.
• Co-chair/organizer and presenter, "Gender and Gender Ambiguity in the Coroplastic Record," session. International Conference Terracottas in the Mediterranean Through Time, 23-25 March 2015, University of Haifa, Israel. Sponsored by the Zinman Institute of Archaeology and the Department of Art History, University of Haifa, and the Association for Coroplastic Studies. Haifa, Israel.
• Session Chair, "Religion, Medicine, and War in Ancient Greece and the Ancient Near East," Midwest Valley History Conference: Omaha.
• Session Chair, 31st Annual CAARI/Department of Antiquities Archaeological Workshop: Nicosia, Cyprus.
• Co-Chair, "The Archaeology of Cyprus," sessions. Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research. November: Atlanta, San Francisco, Chicago, San Diego.