Thoughts on academic communication and knowledge exchange.
Cultural guardian confronts the looters, a profile of… me
Posted on 15 January 2015
*Blush*/*Shameless self promotion*
I (mostly) work for free: academic reality
Posted on 8 January 2015
Dear students: academics work for free. A lot. More than anyone tells you.
Failures and consequences of antiquities trafficking policy: rethinking ‘country-specific’ regulation
Posted on 19 December 2014
A taster abstract for one of the journal papers I have “in submission”.
Cultural Property Crime: An Overview and Analysis on Contemporary Perspectives and Trends
Posted on 17 November 2014
With a chapter by me!
Ethically questionable AIA St Louis Maya vessel sells for over 2x estimate
Posted on 13 November 2014
Yep. Someone bought those ethically questionable Mesoamerican pieces sold at Bonhams.
Archaeological Institute of America St. Louis Society selling Meosamerican antiquities at auction
Posted on 27 October 2014
Does the sale of ‘clean’ antiquities encourage the black market? Ethical questions.
Two looted, mutilated Maya monuments for sale online
Posted on 27 October 2014
This has been a bad week for Maya monuments in the US.
Faking the Past: when archaeologists commit fraud
Posted on 2 October 2014
A look at archaeological fraud.
Investigating the trafficking of cultural objects: lineup for SAA 2015
Posted on 11 September 2014
This could be the most awesome Society for American Archaeology session ever.
Drunk Archaeology: …it belongs in a museum!
Posted on 28 August 2014
My esteemed colleagues and I managed to get through a Drunk Archaeology episode on the illicit antiquities trade without much defamation!
Researching the global trade in looted cultural objects (slides with audio)
Posted on 6 August 2014
I am (slowly) adding audio to all of my online presentations and here is the first.