I’ll be speaking at Yale University on Wednesday, January 21st, 2026, on covering science and archaeology as a journalist, 4 pm. Read More
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Dom Phillips Will Not Be Silenced
I think I would have liked Dom Phillips. Read More
Colombia’s Biodiversity Moment
El País, the Madrid-based newspaper, which I’ve read and admired for many years, picked up an article I wrote in the course of my consulting work at the World Bank Group. Read More
Our Word is Fire II
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
Our Word is Fire
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
Lady Six Sky’s New York Moment
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
City of the Vanquished
It’s been an eventful and, in some ways, tough year for me. Read More
A History of Looting
Tianna Mobley interviewed me last week for an episode of her sparking podcast series on lost histories of the Atlantic world. Read More
The Little State that Could
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