Curriculum Vitae

Derek B. Counts

Dept. of Art History
Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI, 53201

Phone: 414-229-3466
e-mail: dbc@uwm.edu
Web site: www.uwm.edu/~dbc

Derek Counts teaches classical art and archaeology with an emphasis in the material culture of Greece, Italy, Egypt, and the Near East. He joins the faculty of Art History at UWM by way of a visiting position at Tufts University and a term as the NEH Senior Research Fellow at the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute in Nicosia, Cyprus. He currently serves as Associate Director of the Athienou Archaeological Project (Cyprus), as well as acting as co-Instructor of its summer field school. He has spent the last decade conducting excavations and research in Cyprus. His research interests include Greek and Cypriote sculpture , as well as the cultural and artistic interactions between Greece, Cyprus, and the Near East in the first millennium BC.

His recent publications include a study of propaganda in Peisistratid Athens, as well as an extensive, historiographical study of Cypriote limestone sculpture. More recently, he has been focusing on the iconography of Herakles in Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean and is preparing an article on the study of stylistic regional variation in Cypriote sculpture. Long-term research projects include the publication of the corpus of sculpture from Athienou-Malloura (with M.K. Toumazou), and a handbook of Cypriote sculpture .

Education

Teaching and Research Interests

Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
Cypriote Art and Archaeology
Greek Sculpture
Topography of Athens and Attica
Late Republican/Early Imperial Roman Art
Field Archaeology

Courses Taught (UWM)

Graduate
The Politics of the Past: Archaeology and Ideology from Antiquity to Today
The Parthenon and the Athenian Acropolis

Undergraduate/Graduate
Greek Art and Archaeology
The Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
Roman Art and Archaeology
Greek Sculpture

Undergraduate
Ancient and Medieval Art and Architecture

Reading and Research (Undergraduate and Graduate)
The Wall Paintings of Bronze Age Thera: Typology and Meaning (U)
North Syrian Bronze Age Ceramics (G)
The Technique of Greek Bronze Statuary (U)
The Archaeology of Cult and Community(G)
Ancient Glass in the UWM Art History Collections (U)
Votive Religion at the Crossroads: Limestone Sculpture from Athienou-Malloura, Cyprus (U)
Cypriote Sculpture in Context (G)

Teaching and Research Positions

Excavation Experience

Grants, Fellowships, and Academic Awards

Grant Review and Assessment/Consultation Services

List of Publications

Research in Progress
Understanding Cypriote Cult: Potnios Theron and the Principal Male Divinity in Cyprus
Under contract with Equinox Publishers (UK): Series: Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology

KOINE: Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology in Honor of R. Ross Holloway [with Anthony S. Tuck] Under contract with Oxbow Books (UK)

Crossroads and Boundaries: The Archaeology of Past and Present in the Malloura Valley, Cyprus
Co-edited volume [with M. K. Toumazou and P. Nick Kardulias] on the Athienou Archaeological Project. In preparation stages

"Votive Religion at the Crossroads: Heraklean Iconography in Cyprus" (23 pages)
"Bes in Cyprus" (22 pages)
"Regional Styles in Cypriote Sculpture: Limestone Votaries from Athienou-Malloura" (16 pages)

Articles
"From Siwa to Cyprus: The Assimilation of Zeus Ammon in the Cypriote Pantheon," in R. Merrillees, et al. eds., Egypt and Cyprus in Antiquity (Oxbow Books), forthcoming.

"New Light on the Iconography of Bes in Archaic Cyprus" in A. Donohue and C. Mattusch, eds. Acta of XVI International Congress of Classical Archaeology (Oxbow Books), forthcoming in 2005 [with M.K. Toumazou]

"Hybridity and Representation in an Ancient Mediterranean Context: The Cultures In-Between Cypriote Culture," Twenty-First Century Papers: On-line Working Papers from the Center for 21st Century Studies 7 (March 2006), 1-23.

"Art and Religion in the Cypriote Mesaoria: The View from Athienou-Malloura" in Cahier du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 34 (2004), 173-90.

"Artemis at Malloura?" Cahier du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 33 (2003), 235-50. [with M. K. Toumazou]

"Prolegomena to the Study of Cypriote Sculpture," Cahier du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 31 (2001), 129-181.

"Archaic Billboards: The Herms of Hipparchos and the Propaganda of Wisdom in Archaic Greece," in S. Lukesh, ed. Interpretatio Rerum: Archaeological Essays on Objects and Meaning (Providence, 1999), 37-41.

"Regum Externorum Consuetudine: The Nature and Function of Embalming in Rome," Classical Antiquity 15 (1996), 189-202. Abstract

"XAOΣ: The Archaeology of Change. Conference Proceedings," Archaeological News 21-22 (1996-1997), 44-45 [Introduction with Anthony S. Tuck]

Reviews:
K. Lembke, Die Skulpturen aus dem Quellheiligtum von Amrit: Studie zur Akkulturation in Phönizien (Mainz am Rhein, 2004), AJA 110 (2006), forthcoming.

J. B. Grossman, Looking at Greek and Roman Sculpture in Stone: A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques (Los Angeles, 2003), Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR 2005.05.17).

V. Karageorghis, Early Cyprus: Crossroads of the Mediterranean (Los Angeles, 2002) in BASOR 336 (November, 2004), 81-4.

V. Karageorghis, et al. The Cyprus Collections in the Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm (Nicosia, 2003), AJA 108 (2004), 120-1.

N. Kourou, et al. Limestone Statuettes of Cypriote Type Found in the Aegean (Nicosia, 2002) in BASOR 333, (February, 2004), 88-91.

Electronic Media Publications
"STYPPAX: An Academic Resource for the Study of Cypriote Sculpture"
Initially downloaded January 2003. Revised monthly. STYPPAX is an on-line forum that I have developed in an effort to provide resources (and access to resources) for both students and scholars interested in the study of Cypriote sculpture (as well as Cypriote archaeology in general). Content includes a categorized bibliography, discussions, as well as links to images, museum collections and other relevant sites.

Organized Conferences and Organized/Chaired Panels at Professional Meetings

Presentations and Invited Lectures:

University/Professional Service

Reviewer: AJA, BAR (British Archaeological Reports), McGraw-Hill, Wadsworth Publishers

Member: Archaeological Institute of America, American Schools of Oriental Research, Society of American Archaeology, UWM Friends of Art History, and the Milwaukee Art Museum