At least in many places. I swear this title has context.

Academics are doing a terrible job of influencing art market policy
Posted on 8 August 2020
It’s our fault when governments use pop media instead of our research

Stolen Maya mask returning to Guatemala from Belgium
Posted on 7 August 2020
And after a 12 year battle over the piece, this is the first I’m hearing of the case.

White Control of Native American Culture can Never be “Responsible Collecting”
Posted on 23 July 2020
Discussing a “Discussion Article” in Antiquity

Questioning the Mirador-Calakmul Basin Maya Security and Conservation Partnership Act (pt 1)
Posted on 19 June 2020
Why do Republicans support spending millions on protecting Maya heritage?

CALL FOR COMMENTS on the USA/Colombia Cultural Property MOU
Posted on 18 June 2020
Help protect Colombian antiquities from trafficking

Illicit dino feathers and exploiting legal loopholes to study fossils in Myanmar amber
Posted on 5 June 2020
Myanmar law clearly considers all fossils protected, even those in amber

Research at the End of the World
Posted on 25 April 2020
Thoughts on starting an empirical research project during global upheaval

Road Building and Looting of Maya sites in Southern Campeche, Mexico post-1990
Posted on 2 April 2020
Excerpt about trafficking Mesoamerican antiquities from a 2020 book chapter

Two Antiquities Trafficking Lectures for your now-Online Class
Posted on 14 March 2020
For teaching in the time of coronavirus

Junior Researcher Wanted! Trafficking Transformations: Objects as Agents in Transnational Criminal Networks’ project
Posted on 19 February 2020
3-year job at Maastricht University

Auction Review: Christie’s Important Tribal Art, 7 Jul 82
Posted on 6 February 2020
Join me as a browse an antiquities sale from the past