Erin W. Averett, PhD

Department

• Fine & Performing Arts

Position

• 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.

Books

• , 170-198

Articles

• , 292-332
• , 52, 724-745
• , 292332
• , 83, 264-269
• , 165-179
• , 2, 167-196
• , 305-337
• , 1-28
• , 111-141
• , 349, 206-218
• , 119.1, 3-45
• , 40:2, 204-220
• , 134, 243-244
• , 133-147
• , 36-39, 15-28

Publications

• , 12, 15-17

Editing and Reviews

• , 115

Research and Scholarship Interests

• The archaeology of Cyprus, Mediterranean ritual and religion, terracotta figurines, digital archaeology

Grant Funding Received

• Summer Faculty Fellowship Research Grant, Creighton University Graduate School. Project Title: "A Fragmented Past: (Re)Constructing Antiquity Through 3D Modeling Phase II."
• Dean’s Award for Tenure Track Teaching, Creighton University.
• George F. Haddix President’s Faculty Research Fund. Project Title: A Fragmented Past: (Re)Constructing Antiquity through 3D Modelling.
• Summer Faculty Fellowship Research Grant, Creighton University Graduate School. Project Title: "The Monstrous and the Uncanny: a Re-evaluation of Apotropaic Objects in Iron Age Cyprus."
• Principal Investigator, Kripke Center for the Study for Religion & Society Research Grant, Creighton University. Project Title: Publication Grant for the Votive Figurines from the Sanctuary of Athienou-Malloura, Cyprus
• Consultant: Terracotta Domain Expert, Research Grant Initiative, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Project Title: "From Scanner to Scholar: The Publication of 3D Models in the Digital Age."
• Principal Investigator, National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Level I Start-Up Grant (# HD-51851-14). Project Title: "Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future: the Potential of Digital Archaeology."
• Collaborator, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, FRACAS Grant. Project Title: "Developing Custom Structured Light Scanning Scanning and Modeling the Votives of Athienou-Malloura."
• Senior Personnel, National Science Foundation Grant - Research Experiences for Undergraduates (# SMA-1156968). Project Title: "REU Site: The Athienou Archaeological Project, Cyprus."
• Principal Investigator, Kripke Center for the Study of Religion & Society Research Grant, Creighton University. Project Title: "Masks and the Performance of Identity in Iron Age Cyprus."
• Oscar Bronzer Travel Grant, American School of Classical Studies, Athens.
• Fulbright Fellowship to Greece (declined)
• Brunilde Ridgway Fellowship, American School of Classical Studies, Athens.
• National Science Foundation, Research Experiences for Undergraduates Grant
• George F. Haddix Research Incubator Award: Sabbatical Salary Replacement Project Title: “Cypriot Sanctuaries: Ritual and Sacred Space in Ancient Cyprus, ca. 1200-300 BCE”
• Scheerer Research Grant, Department of Fine and Performing Arts, Creighton University Project Title: “From Scanner to Scholar: The Publication of 3D Models in the Digital Age”

• Dean’s Award for Tenure Track Teaching, Creighton University, 2015
• Phi Beta Kappa, University of Georgia, 1998
• Eta Sigma Phi, zeta iota chapter, University of Georgia, 1995