Association for Coroplastic Studies
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
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| 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 |
Andreou Alexandros |
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) |
Constantina Alexandrou |
Trinity College Dublin |
alexandc@tcd.ie |
Late Bronze Age terracotta figurines from Cyprus |
| Silvia Alfaye | University of Zaragoza | silvia.alfaye@gmail.com | Iberian terracottas |
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) |
Fabio Astone |
Antiquarium Com-munale di Agropoli, Salerno |
giubbeblu@alice.it |
Terracottas from Poseidonia (south Italy) |
| Hélène Aurigny | Aix-Marseille Université | aurigny@mmsh.univ-aix.fr | Terracottas (technique, iconography and style) especially of Argos |
| Erin Walcek Averett | Creighton University, Omaha | erinaverett@creighton.edu | Greek Geometric terracottas, Cypriote terracottas |
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| Andrea Babbi | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg | babbi@rgzm.de | Italian, Aegean and Cypriot terracotta and bronze figurines from the Late Bronze Age to the Orientalizing Period |
| Caitlin Barrett | Cornell University | ceb329@cornell.edu | Egyptianizing terracottas |
Angela Bellia |
Università di Urbino | angelabellia1@virgilio.it | Figurative terracottas and musical iconography |
| 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 |
| Josef Mario Briffa | University College London | josef.briffa.12@ucl.ac.uk | Late Iron Age (8th-6th century) figurines in the Southern LevantSigne Barfoed |
| Stéphanie Budin | University of Oregon | slbudin@gmail.com | Coroplastic interconnections in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East |
| Jennifer Butterworth | University of Memphis | jennybutterworth@yahoo.com | Terracottas and gender in the Old World and New World |
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| Romina Carboni | Univeristà degli Studi di Cagliari | carboni.romina@libero.it | Classical terracottas from Greece, Asia Minor, and Sardinia |
| Annie Caubet | Conservateur général honoraire du Patrimoine | annie.caubet@free.fr | Terracottas from Cyprus, Syria, and Lebanon, Bronze to Iron Age |
| Claudia Cenci | Soprintendenza Archeologica del Veneto | claudia.cenci@beniculturali.it | Terracottas from the Gorga collection |
| Maria Chidiroglou | Department of Archaeological Sites, Hellenic Ministry of Culture | mariachidiroglou@gmail.com | Terracottas from Euboea (Greece) |
| Natalie Cholodenko | Université François-Rabelais, Tours | n.cholodenko@gmail.com | Archaic arulae of Sicily and south Italy |
| Louise Contant | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne | louise.contant@gmail.com | Late Iron Age to Roman period terracottas in the Levant and Arabia |
| Nicola Cucuzza | University of Genoa | Nicola.cucuzza@lettere.unige.it | Minoan and Mycenaean figurines |
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| Ghada Daher-Elmowy | University of Sydney | ghada.daher@sydney.edu.au | Terracotta figurines from Lebanon |
| Erin Darby (ACoSt Treasurer) |
University of Tennessee | edarby1@utk.edu | Terracottas from Israel |
| Martine Dewailly | École Française de Rome | martine.dewailly@efrome.it | Tterracottas from South Italy (Basilicata, Puglia) and from Ionia (Claros, Ephesos) |
| Maria Dikomitou-Eliadou | University of Cyprus | m.dikom@ucy.ac.cy | Interdisciplinary study of ceramic artifacts; ceramic petrography |
| Vasileia Dimitrakopoulou | University of Athens | vassia7@gmail.com | Terracottas and Coroplastic Workshops, especially from the Athenian Agora and Abdera |
| Daphni Doepner | Universität Bonn | daphni.doepner@uni-bonn.de | Terracottas of South Italy and Troy |
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Adi Erlich |
University of Haifa | aerlich@research.haifa.ac.il | Terracottas from Israel and the Levant |
| 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 |
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| 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 | Copenhagen University | bukrania@gmail.com | Greek terracotta figurines, mostly votives |
| 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) |
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| 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 |
| Heather Jackson | The University of Melbourne, Victoria | hmjackson@bigpond.com | Terracottas from Jebel Khalid (Syria); terracottas from Torone (Greece) |
| Violaine Jeammet | Musée du Louvre | Violaine.Jeammet@louvre.fr | Greek terracottas |
| Hasan Kasapoglu | Atatürk University Faculty of Letters Archaeology Department (Turkey) | hkasapoglu@atauni.edu.tr | Greek and Roman Terracotta Figurines / Terracotta Figurines from Parion |
| 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 |
| Theo Kopestonsky | University of Tennessee | tkopesto@hotmail.com | Corinthian terracottas |
| Yannos Kourayos | Director of the excavations at Despotiko (Greece) | kourayos@hotmail.com | Aegean coroplastics |
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| Mechthild Ladurner | University of Vienna | Mechthild.Ladurner@dainst.de | The terracottas of southern Italy and Sicily |
| Stephanie Langin-Hooper | Southern Methodist University | langinhooper@mail.smu.edu | Terracottas from Mesopotamia |
| Mireia López-Bertran | University of Glasgow | mireia_lopez@hotmail.com | Phoenician and Punic figurines in the western Mediterranean |
| Elise Luneau | German Archaeological Institute | elise.luneau@dainst.de | Terracottas from central Asia |
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| Martin Maischberger | Antikensammlung Berlin | m.maischberger@smb.spk-berlin.de | Greek and Roman terracottas |
| Annamaria Manenti | Italy | manspad@libero.it | Terracottas of Sicily |
| Christina Marangou | Greece | chrmarangou@yahoo.gr | Mainly prehistoric terracottas of Greece and neighboring regions |
| Natacha Massar | Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels | n.massar@kmkg-mrah.be | Terracottas from Greece and south Italy |
| Roberta Menegazzi | Centro Ricerche e Scavi di Torino per il Medio Oriente e l'Asia | robertamenegazzi@yahoo.it | Terracottas from Seleucia on the Tigris (Iraq) |
| 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 |
| Maya Muratov | Adelphi University | mbm224@nyu.edu | Terracottas from the Bosporan Kingdom (Black Sea) |
| Celine Murphy | University of Kent | cm293@kent.ac.uk | The materiality of Minoan peak sanctuary anthropomorphic figurines (made of clay) (Crete) |
| Ioannis Mylonopoulos | Columbia University | jm3193@columbia.edu | Greek Terracottas |
| Astrid Nunn | Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg | astrid.nunn@hotmail.de | Phoenician, Syrian, and Trans-Jordanian terracottas |
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| Ambra Pace | University of Messina, Sicily | ambra.pace@tin.it | Archaic protomai from the deposit of Piazza S. Francesco at Catania (Sicily) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| lexandra Prokova | University of Cologne | alprokova@gmail.com | Greek terracottas |
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| Serena Raffiotta | Italy | serenaraffiotta@gmail.com | Terracottas of Sicily |
| 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 |
| Angele Rosenberg | University of Chicago | angelero@uchicago.edu | Terracottas of Greece |
| Elisa Rosberger | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | elisa_r@web.de | Bronze Age terracottas of Syria |
| Maja Rzeplińska | University of Warsaw | maja.rzeplinska@gmail.com | Terracottas from Hellenistic, Parhian and Sasanian Mesopotamia, Iran and Central Asia |
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Katri Saarelainen |
University of Helsinki, Finland |
katri.saarelainen@gmail.com |
Iron Age terracottas from Israel and Jordan |
| Ferhan Sakal | Qatar Museums Authority | ferhan.sakal@uni-tuebingen.de | Syrian terracottas |
| Gina Salapata (ACoSt Secretary) |
Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand | g.salapata@massey.ac.nz | Terracotta plaques from Laconia (Greece) |
| Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer | Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès | a.sauraziegelmeyer@gmail.com | Egyptian terracottas |
| Nancy Serwint | Arizone State University, Tempe | nancy.serwint@asu.edu | Terracottas of Marion (Cyprus) |
| Alexandra Sofroniew | University of California, Davis | asofroniew@ucdavis.edu | Greek and Italic terracottas, anatomical terracottas, terracottas in museum collections |
Katja Sporn |
German Archaeological Institute, Athens | Katja.Sporn@dainst.de | Greek Archaeology, Archaeo-logy of Cult, Funerary culture, Topographic, Studies, Iconography |
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| Dominique Kassab Tezgör | Bilkent University, Ankara | tezgor@bilkent.edu.tr | Greek Hellenistic and Roman figurines, typology and technique |
| 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 |
| Loeta Tyree | American School of Classical Studies | loetatyree@gmail.com | Cretan Bronze Age figurines and religion with a specific interest in Minoan sacred caves |
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| Jaimee Uhlenbrock (ACoSt President) |
State Unversity of New York, New Paltz | uhlenbrj@newpaltz.edu | Greek terracottas of Libya and Sicily |
| Anja Ulbrich | Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology |
anya_ulbrich@gmx.de | All aspects of Greek, Cypriot and Near Eastern terracottas |
| Gerrie van Rooijen | Leiden University | mojassameh@yahoo.com | Terracotta votives and the formation of religious beliefs in Sicily from the 7th to the 5th cent. B.C. |
| Simone Voegtle | University of Bern (Switzerland) | simone.voegtle@iaw.unibe.ch | Iconography in figurative terracottas |
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| Andrew Ward | Institute of Fine Arts, New York University | andrewward21210@gmail.com | Sicilian terracottas with impressed or rolled designs |
Elizabeth Weistra |
University of Groningen (the Netherlands) | ellyweistra@gmail.com | Terracottas from (Francavilla Marittima in) South Italy |
| Nadezhda Zhizhina | Hermitage Museum | jijina@mail.ru | Greek plaster reliefs |