3D Visualization in Art and Archaeology

On Monday, March 27, Professor Derek Counts welcomed Kevin Garstki (ABD, Anthropology, UWM) to his ARTHIST 710 colloquium (“Roman Copies of Greek Original Sculpture”) to discuss 3D visualization in art and archaeology.

Counts publishes Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future

Professor and chair, Derek Counts, co-edited a new book, Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future: The Potential of Digital Archaeology, with his colleagues Erin W. Averett (Creighton University) and Jody M. Gordon (Wentworth Institute of Technology).

FOAH Behind-the-Scenes Tour

On Tuesday, September 27, UWM Art Collection Director, Linda Brazeau, and Curator, UWM Art Collection, Christa Story gave a behind the scenes tour of the UWM Art History Gallery and the UWM Art Collection (UWMAC) vault to Friends of Art History (FOAH) members at the Art Connoisseur level.

Counts awarded a $100,000 grant from UWM’s Research Growth Initiative program

Prof. Derek B. Counts was recently awarded a $100,000.00 grant from UWM’s Research Growth Initiative program.

Art History Featured in L&S In Focus

The Department of Art History was featured in the March 2016 edition of the College of Letters & Science In Focus monthly newsletter.

Counts receives a Center for International Education/Office of Undergraduate Research Grant to support travel for Kayla Olson

Derek Counts received a Center for International Education/Office of Undergraduate Research Grant to support travel for Kayla Olson (UWM undergraduate) and himself to study and document excavated material from Counts’s archaeological site of Athienou-Malloura in Cyprus.

Poster of Counts in the UWM Student Union

Associate Professor Tanya Tiffany and the Academic Department Associate, Kate Negri, found a poster of Professor Derek Counts on the second floor of the UWM Student Union.

Athienou Archaeological Project Turns 25

Professor Derek Counts is Associate Director of the Athienou Archaeological Project again this summer in Athienou, Cyprus.

Counts Featured in UWM Research Report

Professor Derek Counts was featured in the UWM 2015 Research Report.

Counts Co-organizes NEH-sponsored Workshop

Derek Counts (Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology in AH) is co-organizer of an NEH-sponsored workshop looking at mobile computing in archaeology, the emergence of born-digital data, and the future of ‘paperless’ field projects: Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future: The Potential of Digital Archaeology.