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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

My article “Weaving for Their Ancestors” is in the November-December 2020 issue of Archaeology. Read More

The History department at my undergrad alma mater, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, interviewed me about my book Stealing History, working life, and making one’s way as an independent journalist. Read More

I’ll be speaking on my memoir anthology “Coming of Age in a Hardscrabble World,” just out from University of Georgia Press, at the Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural and Bookstore in Los Angeles on Thursday, December 19, 2019, at 6 p. Read More

I spoke at Ursinus College outside Philadelphia last week on my book Stealing History and was struck by how its basic message still resonates. Read More

I’m on a bit of hiatus these days from magazine writing due to some public speaking engagements, which are a great pleasure but more time-consuming than you might think, and I’m finishing a degree at Georgetown University. Read More