Professor Counts is an Associate Director of the Athienou Archaeological Project at the site of Athienou-Malloura in Cyprus where he has been excavating for the last decade. His research and publications focus on Cypriote sculpture and its associated iconography, as well as the history of religious cult in Cyprus and the eastern Mediterranean. In 2001 he was awarded a Senior Research Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (Nicosia, Cyprus). Professor Counts currently serves as President of the Milwaukee Society of the AIA.