Coltofean-Arizancu, Laura
Laura Coltofean-Arizancu is a DAAD Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Römisch-Germanische Kommission (RGK; Frankfurt am Main) of the German Archaeological Institute. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher (2018-2020) in the Artsoundscapes ERC Advanced Grant Project at the University of Barcelona, Spain, and a museum curator (2012-2018) at the Brukenthal National Museum in Sibiu, Romania. Since 2018, she is co-chair of the Archaeology and Gender in Europe (AGE) Community of the European Association of Archaeologists. Her major publications include Interdisciplinarity and archaeology: Scientific interactions in nineteenth- and twentieth-century archaeology (edited with Margarita Díaz-Andreu; Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2021) and Handbook of the History of Archaeology (edited with Margarita Díaz-Andreu; Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Con Aguilar, Eldris (Dr.)
Eldris Con Aguilar is an education specialist and qualitative researcher, born in Venezuela and living in the Netherlands. In 2013 Eldris joined the Nexus 1492 team, thereby combining her research interests in education policies and Caribbean cultural heritage. Since then she has dedicated her research efforts to studying, from teachers’ perspectives, how indigenous heritage is taught in the current social studies curricula.
Cooke, Ashley (Dr)
Ashley Cooke is Senior Curator of Antiquities at National Museums Liverpool, one of the largest Egyptology collections in the UK. Tomb architecture is one of his research interests, which also include ancient Egyptian material culture and the history of collecting. He has worked on fieldwork projects in Egypt since 1997 and has excavated at Saqqara, Tell Abqa’in, the Valley of the Kings and Zawiyet Umm el-Rackham.
Cooney, Gabriel (Prof. Dr.)
Professor Gabriel Cooney is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Archaeology, University College Dublin. Gabriel’s area of specialisation is the Neolithic period and he has a particular interest in the use of stone by Neolithic people, from the artefact to the monumental scale. He is the director of the long running Irish Stone Axe Project which was the context for the discovery of a Neolithic axe quarry on Lambay, an island off the east coast of Ireland. His current focus of quarry studies is the North Roe Felsite Project in Shetland, investigating the character and the wider role of a major quarry complex during the Neolithic period in the Shetland archipelago.
Corbey, Raymond (Prof. Dr.)
Raymond Corbey is an anthropologist at the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University, the Netherlands. His recent research focuses on the ritual art and the cosmologies of various peoples of New Guinea, Insular Southeast Asia and Central Africa.
Cormack, Zoe (Dr.)
Zoe Cormack is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the African Studies Centre, Oxford University and an honorary research affiliate at the Pitt Rivers Museum. Zoe has previously held research fellowships at the British School at Rome, the British Institute in East Africa and the Open University. Her most recent article, ‘Violence and the Trade in Ethnographic Artefacts in Nineteenth Century Sudan,’ is published in The Journal of Art Market Studies (2020).
Coudart, Anick (Prof. Dr.)
Anick Coudart is Research Professor at Arizona State University, and formerly Directeur de recherche at the CNRS. She was the co-founder and long-time editor-in-chief of the professional journal Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie.
Coltofean-Arizancu, Laura
Laura Coltofean-Arizancu is a DAAD Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Römisch-Germanische Kommission (RGK; Frankfurt am Main) of the German Archaeological Institute. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher (2018-2020) in the Artsoundscapes ERC Advanced Grant Project at the University of Barcelona, Spain, and a museum curator (2012-2018) at the Brukenthal National Museum in Sibiu, Romania. Since 2018, she is co-chair of the Archaeology and Gender in Europe (AGE) Community of the European Association of Archaeologists. Her major publications include Interdisciplinarity and archaeology: Scientific interactions in nineteenth- and twentieth-century archaeology (edited with Margarita Díaz-Andreu; Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2021) and Handbook of the History of Archaeology (edited with Margarita Díaz-Andreu; Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Con Aguilar, Eldris (Dr.)
Eldris Con Aguilar is an education specialist and qualitative researcher, born in Venezuela and living in the Netherlands. In 2013 Eldris joined the Nexus 1492 team, thereby combining her research interests in education policies and Caribbean cultural heritage. Since then she has dedicated her research efforts to studying, from teachers’ perspectives, how indigenous heritage is taught in the current social studies curricula.
Cooke, Ashley (Dr)
Ashley Cooke is Senior Curator of Antiquities at National Museums Liverpool, one of the largest Egyptology collections in the UK. Tomb architecture is one of his research interests, which also include ancient Egyptian material culture and the history of collecting. He has worked on fieldwork projects in Egypt since 1997 and has excavated at Saqqara, Tell Abqa’in, the Valley of the Kings and Zawiyet Umm el-Rackham.
Cooney, Gabriel (Prof. Dr.)
Professor Gabriel Cooney is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Archaeology, University College Dublin. Gabriel’s area of specialisation is the Neolithic period and he has a particular interest in the use of stone by Neolithic people, from the artefact to the monumental scale. He is the director of the long running Irish Stone Axe Project which was the context for the discovery of a Neolithic axe quarry on Lambay, an island off the east coast of Ireland. His current focus of quarry studies is the North Roe Felsite Project in Shetland, investigating the character and the wider role of a major quarry complex during the Neolithic period in the Shetland archipelago.
Corbey, Raymond (Prof. Dr.)
Raymond Corbey is an anthropologist at the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University, the Netherlands. His recent research focuses on the ritual art and the cosmologies of various peoples of New Guinea, Insular Southeast Asia and Central Africa.
Cormack, Zoe (Dr.)
Zoe Cormack is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the African Studies Centre, Oxford University and an honorary research affiliate at the Pitt Rivers Museum. Zoe has previously held research fellowships at the British School at Rome, the British Institute in East Africa and the Open University. Her most recent article, ‘Violence and the Trade in Ethnographic Artefacts in Nineteenth Century Sudan,’ is published in The Journal of Art Market Studies (2020).
Coudart, Anick (Prof. Dr.)
Anick Coudart is Research Professor at Arizona State University, and formerly Directeur de recherche at the CNRS. She was the co-founder and long-time editor-in-chief of the professional journal Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie.
