Erin Walcek Averett, PhD
Associate Director, Honors Program
Professor
Erin Walcek Averett graduated with a B.A. in Latin and Classical Archaeology from the University of Georgia, and took her MA and Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology at the University of Missouri in the Department of Art History and Archaeology. She is Professor of Art History & Archaeology in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Creighton University, where she teaches classes in ancient Mediterranean art, archaeology, and history. She also serves as Associate Director of the
Athienou Archaeological Project on Cyprus, as the President of the Omaha-Lincoln chapter of the
Archaeological Institute of America, and as adjunct curator of antiquities at the
Joslyn Art Museum. Her research explores the archaeology of Cyprus and the eastern Mediterranean in the Iron Age, with particular focus on terracotta figurines, ancient ritual and religion, and digital archaeology. She recently co-edited
Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future: The Potential of Digital Archaeology (2016) and co-authored
Visualizing Votive Practice: Exploring Limestone and Terracotta Sculpture from Athienou-Malloura
Through 3D Models (2020). She has published on Cypriot archaeology and the Athienou-Malloura site in the
American Journal of Archaeology, Antiquity, the
Journal of Field Archaeology, and
World Archaeology.
Teaching Interests
- The Archaeology of Cyprus
Research Focus
The archaeology of Cyprus, Mediterranean ritual and religion, terracotta figurines, digital archaeologyDepartment
Fine & Performing Arts
Position
Professor
Books
- Averett Erin Walcek, ASPECTS OF MALE NUDITY - (S.C.) Murray Male Nudity in the Greek Iron Age. Representation and Ritual Context in Aegean Societies. Pp. xxvi + 322, b/w & colour ills, map, colour pls. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Cased, £90, US$120. ISBN: 978 2023
- Ancient Art Revisited
Averett Erin Walcek, 170Beyond Representation: Cypriot Rural Sanctuaries as Vibrant Assemblages [Book Chapter] 2023 - Averett Erin Walcek, The Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from Cyprus [Book Chapter] 2021
- Digital Humanities and Research Methods in Religious Studies
Averett Erin Walcek, Scaling Religious Practice from Landscape to Artifact: Digital Approaches to Ancient Cyprus [Book Chapter] 2021 - Amar Abhishek, Introductions to Digital Humanities - Religion 2021
- Counts Derek B, Mobilizing the past for a digital future 2016
- Averett Erin Walcek, Online review : book : 'Weihgeschenke aus dem Heiligtum der Aphrodite in Alt-Paphos : Terrakotten, Skulpturen und andere figürliche Kleinvotive' 2013
- Averett Erin Walcek, Book Review of Art and Society in Cyprus from the Bronze Age into the Iron Age, by Joanna S. Smith 2011
- Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research, volume 65
Averett Erin W., The Ritual Context of the Malloura Terracotta Figurines [Book Chapter] 2011 - Stack Joan, The art of the book 2006
Publications
- Near Eastern archaeology
Garstki Kevin, A Square Peg in a Round Hole Rethinking Archaeological Publication
83:4, p. 264 - 269 2020 - World archaeology
Averett Erin Walcek, Blurred boundaries: Zoomorphic masking rituals and the human-animal relationship in ancient Cyprus
52:5, p. 724 - 745 2020 - Antiquity
Counts Derek B., A Fragmented Past: (Re) Constructing Antiquity through 3D Artefact Modelling and Customised Structured Light Scanning at Athienou-Malloura, Cyprus
90:349, p. 206 - 218 2016 - Journal of Field Archaeology
Toumazou Michael K., Shedding Light on the Cypriot Rural Landscape: Investigations of the Athienou Archaeological Project in the Malloura Valley
40:2, p. 204 - 220 2015 - American Journal of Archaeology
Averett Erin W., Masks and Ritual Performance on the Island of Cyprus
119:1, p. 3 - 45 2015 - Averett Erin Walcek, G. Papantoniou 'Religion and Social Transformations in Cyprus. From the Cypriot Basileis to the Hellenistic Strategos' 2014
- Averett Erin W., The Sanctuary of Hermes and Aphrodite at Syme Viannou IV. Animal Images of Clay = To iero toy Erme kai tes Aphrodites ste Syme Viannoy IV. pelina zodia. Library of the Archaeological Society at Athens no. 256 2010
- The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research
Toumazou Michael K., CROSSROADS AND BOUNDARIES: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF PAST AND PRESENT IN THE MALLOURA VALLEY, CYPRUS
65, p. i - 376 2010 - Muse
Averett Erin W., Drumming for the Divine: a Female Tympanon Player in the Museum of Art and Archaeology
36-39, p. 15 - 28 2004
Other
"Taking the Bull by the Horns: A Call for New Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Investigation of Animal Sacrifice in Iron Age Cyprus"
Taking the Bull by the Horns: A Call for New Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Investigation of Animal Sacrifice in Iron Age Cyprus
The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Cyprus from the End of the Bronze Age through the Romans
The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Cyprus from the End of the Bronze Age through the Romans
"Taking the Bull by the Horns: A Call for New Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Investigation of Animal Sacrifice in Iron Age Cyprus"
Taking the Bull by the Horns: A Call for New Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Investigation of Animal Sacrifice in Iron Age Cyprus
The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Cyprus from the End of the Bronze Age through the Romans
The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Cyprus from the End of the Bronze Age through the Romans
Awards
- Dean’s Award for Tenure Track Teaching
Creighton University - Phi Beta Kappa
University of Georgia - Eta Sigma Phi, zeta iota chapter
National Classics Honors Society
University of Georgia