Membership in the Association for Coroplastic Studies (ACoSt) is open to anyone with an interest in the study of terracotta figurines and other sculptural objects in clay. Although formed by classical archaeologists working at ancient sites around the Mediterranean and Black Sea areas, the ACoSt welcomes those scholars conducting research on terracotta figurines from other areas of the world, such as Central and South America, Africa, south-east Asia, and the Pacific rim. We also extend membership to colleagues in anthropology, history, and religious studies, among other disciplines.
To become a member please contact:
Professor Jaimee Uhlenbrock (uhlenbrj@newpaltz.edu)
and provide a brief sentence on your areas of interest
Souad Ait Salah | Université de Lille-SHS | souad.aitsalah@gmail.com | Terracottas of north Greece |
Marina Albertocchi |
Ca' Foscari University, Venice |
m.albertocchi@alice.it |
Terracottas of Sicily |
Silvia Alfaye Villa | University of Zaragoza | silvia.alfaye@gmail.com | Iberian terracottas |
Alexandros Andreou | University of Athens | satyriskos@gmail.com | Hellenistic and Roman terracotta figurines from the deposits around the Sanctuary of the Nymph at the South Slope of the Acropolis (Greece) |
Rebecca Ammerman (ACoSt Executive Committee) |
Colgate University |
rammerman@colgate.edu |
Terracottas from south Italy |
Erica Morais Angliker |
University of London |
em2316@columbia.edu |
Terracottas from the Cyclades (Greece) |
Hélène Aurigny | Aix-Marseille Université | aurigny@mmsh.univ-aix.fr | Terracottas (technique, iconography and style) especially of Argos |
Ellen Belcher | John Jay College | ebelcher@jjay.cuny.edu | Prehistoric figurines from Anatolia and Northerne Mesopotamia |
Angela Bellia |
Università di Urbino | angelabellia1@virgilio.it | Figurative terracottas and musical iconography |
Agnes Bencze | Pázmány Péter Catholic University | agneseb33@gmail.com | Terracottas of south Italy |
Geltrude Bizzaro | Università degli studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” | geltrudebizzarro@gmail.com | Terracottas of south Italy |
Barbara Bolognani | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | barbarabolognani@gmail.com | Iron Age clay figurines from Karkemish, Lebanon and Israel |
Heather Bowyer | Arizona State University | hbowyer@asu.edu | Terracotta and bronze grotesque figurines from the Hellenistic periodErica Morais Angliker |
Claudia Cenci | Soprintendenza Archeologica del Veneto | claudia.cenci@beniculturali.it | Terracottas from the Gorga collection |
Nicola Cucuzza | University of Genoa | Nicola.cucuzza@lettere.unige.it | Minoan and Mycenaean figurines |
Ghada Daher-Elmowy | independent researcher | reception@elmowy.com | Terracotta figurines from Lebanon |
Erin Darby (ACoSt Treasurer) |
University of Tennessee | edarby1@utk.edu | Terracottas from Israel |
Vasileia Dimitrakopoulou | University of Athens | vassia7@gmail.com | Terracottas and Coroplastic Workshops, especially from the Athenian Agora and Abdera |
Adi Erlich |
University of Haifa | aerlich@research.haifa.ac.il | Terracottas from Israel and the Levant |
Eleonore Favier | Université Lyon II |
eleonore.favier@hotmail.fr | Greek terracottas |
Sophie Feret | Université de Montpellier |
sofiferet@gmail.com | Hellenistic terracottas of central Italy |
Michael Anthony Fowler | Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at East Tennessee State University | maf2209@columbia.edu | Terracottas in ritual |
David Frankfurter | Boston University | dtmf@bu.edu | Terracotta figurines in Roman and Christian Egypt |
Frances Gallart-Marques | Cornell University | fg29@cornell.edu | Terracottas of Sardis |
Vassiliki Georgaka | Greek Ministry of Culture-First Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Studies | vgeorgaka@culture.gr | Archaic Attic terracottas |
Frauke Gutschke | Germany | fraukegutschke@web.de | Jointed dolls |
Isabelle Hasselin Rous | Musée du Louvre | isabelle.hasselin@louvre.fr | Terracottas of Smyrna |
Keely Heuer |
State University of New York, New Paltz | heuerk@newpaltz.edu | Iconography of terracottas in pre-Roman Italy (Etruria, Magna Graecia, and Sicily) |
Sanne Hoffmann | National Museum of Denmark | bukrania@gmail.com | Greek terracottas |
Regine Hunziker-Rodewald | University of Strasbourg | regine.hunziker@orange.fr | Iron Age figurines from Jordan |
Stéphanie Huysecom-Haxhi (ACoSt Vice-President) |
Université SHS-Lille 3 | stephanie.huysecom-haxhi@univ-lille3.fr | Terracottas from Thasos (Greece), from Dürres (Albania) |
Maria Adele Ibba | Università degli Studi di Cagliari | m.adeleibba@gmail.com | Terracottas from Cagliari (Sardinia), terracottas from Iasos (Turkey) |
Stylianos Ieremias | Oxford University | stelios_ieremias@hotmail.com | Hellenistic Terracottas from Demetrias |
Violaine Jeammet | Musée du Louvre | Violaine.Jeammet@louvre.fr | Greek terracottas |
Sven Kielau (ACoSt Executive Committee) |
Independent researcher | sven_kielau@yahoo.de | Hellenistic terracottas of Asia Minor |
Raz Kletter | Israel | kletterr@gmail.com | Bronze and Iron Age terracottas of the Near East |
Sonia Klinger | University of Haifa | klinger@research.haifa.ac.il | Terracottas of Corinth (Greece), Roman terracottas of Israel |
Nadia B. Knudsen | United Kingdom | ganchat3@hotmail.com | Early Bronze Age zoomorphic figurines from the Levant |
Yannos Kourayos | Director of the excavations at Despotiko (Greece) | kourayos@hotmail.com | Aegean coroplastics |
Mireia López-Bertran | University of Glasgow | mireia_lopez@hotmail.com | Phoenician and Punic figurines in the western Mediterranean |
Pauline Maillard | École suisse d'archéologie en Grèce | Pauline.Maillard@unil.ch | Cypriot terracottas from the classical period ; Euboean terracotta production (Eretria and Amarynthos, all periods) |
Christina Marangou | Greece | chrmarangou@yahoo.gr | Mainly prehistoric terracottas of Greece and neighboring regions |
Alexandre G. Mitchell | Institute of Archaeology, Oxford | info@expressum.eu | Greco-Roman terracotta figurines, particularly caricature and pathological grotesques |
Christine Morris | Trinity College Dublin | cmorris@tcd.ie | Aegean Bronze Age terracotta figurines, especially from Minoan peak sanctuaries |
Belisa Muka | Institute of Archaeology, Butrint, Albania | b_muka@yahoo.com | Terracottas from Illyria and Epirus (Albania) |
Arthur Muller | Université Charles-de-Gaulle-Lille 3 | arthur.muller@univ-lille3.fr | Greek and Albania terracottas |
Marion Muller-Dufeu | Université Charles-de-Gaulle-Lille 3 | mmullerdufeu@sfr.fr | Greek and Albania terracottas |
Celine Murphy | The Heritage Management Organization | celine.s.murphy@gmail.com | Cretan figurines (Minoan, Classical, Hellenistic); experimental archaeology; material analyses; methodological studies |
Giorgos Papantoniou | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn |
papantog@tcd.ie | Archaic to Roman terracottas from Cyprus |
Antonella Pautasso (ACoSt Executive Committee) | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per i Beni Archeologici e Monumentali, Catania | Pautasso@unict.it | Terracottas of Sicily |
Andrée Pedinielli | Université de Provence | andrea.pdni@gmail.com | Polychromie et dorure sur la coroplastie phénico-punique ; Statuettes et terres cuites puniques de Carthage-Byrsa (Tunisie); Statuettes puniques carthaginoises |
Oliver Pilz | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz | opilz@uni-mainz.de | Geometric and Archaic terracottas from Crete |
Luana Poma | Italy | luanapo2@hotmail.com | Phoenician-punic terracottas; archaic and classical greek terracottas |
Serena Raffiotta | Italy | serenaraffiotta@gmail.com | Terracottas of Sicily |
Magali Ramon Ribaud | Université de Montpellier | magali.ramon.ribaud@wanadoo.fr | Greek terracottas and their relation to ceramics |
Laura Rohaut | Archéologie des Sociétés Méditerranéenne (ASM), University of Montpellier | laura.rohaut@gmail.com | Terracotta figurines of the Phocaean colonies in the West, handmodeled figurines |
Gina Salapata (ACoSt Secretary) |
Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand | g.salapata@massey.ac.nz | Terracotta plaques from Laconia (Greece) |
Sven Schipporeit |
Universität Wien | svent.schipporeit@gmail.com | Greek terracottas and ritual in the Classical and Hellenistic periods |
Nancy Serwint |
Arizone State University, Tempe | nancy.serwint@asu.edu | Terracottas of Marion (Cyprus) |
Maria Spathi | Society of Messenian Archaeological Studies | maria.spathi@hotmail.com | Greek Terracottas |
Zetta Theodoropoulou-Polychroniadis | Chair, Greek Archaeological Committee UK | zetta.theodoropoulou@gmail.com | Coroplastic research interests:archaic and classical figurines, plaques, pottery, with a specific interest in coastal sanctuaries |
Paz Valiente | University of Nottingham | pazramirezval@gmail.com | Ancient trade and commerce |
Jaimee Uhlenbrock (ACoSt President) |
State Unversity of New York, New Paltz | uhlenbrj@newpaltz.edu | Greek terracottas of Libya and Sicily |