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I’ll be speaking at Georgetown University on my new book, Nuestra palabra es fuego (Our Word is Fire), on Tuesday, November 12, 4 pm, invited by Georgetown’s Americas Forum and the History and Spanish departments. Read More

Editorial Universitaria, the book publishing unit of the national University of El Salvador, published my latest book, Nuestra palabra es fuego: La Pájara Pinta y los poetas de la revolución en El Salvador, 1965-1975, in San Salvador in July 2024. Read More

I was interviewed by Jason Pentrail on looting, archaeology, and reporting for his terrific podcast Seven Ages. Read More

The issues are complicated, of course, and I don’t know all the details of this case, but I think this is an example of what responsible exhibits by museums accused of buying loot would look like. Read More

Tianna Mobley interviewed me last week for an episode of her sparking podcast series on lost histories of the Atlantic world. Read More

My article on Tlaxcallan , the city-state that resisted the Aztec empire for generations before striking a tactical alliance with the invading Spaniards, is out in the July/August 2022 issue of Archaeology. Read More

I’ve received some really nice feedback on my interview on Stealing History with Jordan Harbinger, broadcast on his podcast in March. Read More

You spend days, maybe weeks trying to write the perfect turn of phrase to sum up what your book is about for interviewers, and then … someone reads the book and does it effortlessly, and better. Read More

Once again, El Faro asked me and a bunch of others to name our favorite new books on El Salvador. Read More