UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime @unescochair-chec.bsky.social Researching the Heritage Crimes of the Present and Future. New and emerging heritage crimes occur beyond the boundaries of detection, deterrence, and imagination. We ask: what comes next? Hosted by Maastricht University. unescochairculturecrime.org
Theo Gordon @theogordon.bsky.social
Jennifer T. Gordon @jennifertgordon.bsky.social Atlantic Council, Nuclear Energy Policy Initiative | PhD in Middle Eastern History | Wellesley & Harvard
Constance Jame @constancejame.bsky.social Art historian, Museologist, Provenance researcher | Islamic Art, History of Collection, Translocation of Objects | PhD @Uni-Heidelberg
Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe.bsky.social Author of MOTHERLAND: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy. A finalist for the National Book Award.
DC correspondent at Puck.
All views my own.
Michael Press @michaeldpress.bsky.social Researcher and editor | writings on cultural heritage, antiquities trade
Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social Professor, University of Agder
U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield @uscbs.bsky.social USCBS is dedicated to preventing the destruction, damage and theft of cultural property during armed conflict and natural disasters.
https://uscbs.org/
Hanan Charaf @hanan12.bsky.social Associate Professor, Art and Archaeology
Lebanese University
Director for North African Cultural Heritage Projects, ASOR- H @hdixon.bsky.social @hdixon.bsky.social
Jennie Ebeling @siduri1.bsky.social Archaeology of west Asia in the Bronze and Iron Ages, baking and brewing tech, women in Canaan and ancient Israel, history of biblical archaeology. Professor of Archaeology @ U Evansville in Indiana. Editor-at-large @ Eisenbrauns/PSU Press.
Evelien Campfens @ecampfens.bsky.social Art and cultural heritage law - University of Amsterdam - previously Leiden University / Dutch Restitutions Committee
Roberta Mazza @robertamazza.bsky.social Papyrologist and Ancient Historian
https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/r.mazza/en
https://facesandvoices.wordpress.com/
Samer ABDEL GHAFOUR @samerabdelghafour.bsky.social Founder ArchaeologyIN – Archaeology Information Network l Heritage Crime Analyst
Ben Lewis @theuniversalben.bsky.social Telling stories about art within the bigger picture of soc, econ and pol. Last Leonardo, Art Bust, Art Safari – Books. Podcasts. Documentaries www.benlewisprojects.com #arthistory
Donna Yates @profdonnayates.bsky.social I'm the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime as well as a criminologist, an archaeologist, and an unqualified dinosaur lawyer. I study passion and deviance related to rare and precious things at the Faculty of Law, Maastricht University.
Antiquities Coalition @combatlooting.bsky.social The Antiquities Coalition is leading the international campaign against cultural racketeering, the illicit trade in ancient art and artifacts.
Heghnar Watenpaugh @heghnarw.bsky.social Writer, Art Historian, Professor at University of California Davis
@ucdavis. Guggenheim Fellow
@GuggFellows Art, human rights, cultural heritage, museums, genocide, Middle East, South Caucasus
Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social ISW is a policy research organization focused on U.S. national security. Email: press@understandingwar.org. For more: https://linktr.ee/understandingwar
Katha Pollitt @kathapollitt.bsky.social Poet, essayist, columnist at The Nation, cat lover. Older but probably not much wiser.
Dr Emiline Smith @dremilinesmith.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminology at SCCJR @ Uni of Glasgow. https://tinyurl.com/EmilineSmith
Research: cultural & natural resources • crime & harms • justice • oceans.
♡ Vegan ♡ tea ♡ scuba diving.
www.stolenstatues.com
www.oceanculturelife.com
Sarah Krienen M.A. @sarah-krienen.bsky.social Greco-Roman archaeology M.A.
Cultural heritage protection, looting, antiquities crime. Goldsmith, sewist, historical clothing
She/her
Chuck Jones @chuckjones.bsky.social Father, Husband, Librarian, Open access and free-to-read scholarship advocate, always online. https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/
E.J. Dionne @ejdionne.bsky.social Prof. McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown, senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, New York Times opinion writer. Passionate Celtics fan. Opinions here are my own.
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social Professor of Archaeological Heritage researching the history and ethics of collecting material culture. Heritage and its impact. Museums & Archives. FRSA FSA
https://linktr.ee/davidwjgill
Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social Art historian, archaeologist, curator, educator 🖌️ | Assyria, Persia, Arabia 🌍 | Cultural Heritage, Museums, Provenance, Senses🪻 | Curator, ISAC Museum, UChicago 🪷 | Lecturer, Dept of Art History, UChicago 📖 | PhD, UCBerkeley 📚
Helena Arose @helenaarose.bsky.social Archaeologist | Director of Programs, Antiquities Coalition | Researcher of antiquities trafficking + cultural heritage protection | Personal account
Dan Vergano @danvergano.bsky.social Get AIP FYI Science Policy newsletter: https://www.aip.org/newsletters
Director Science Policy News, Editorial at AIP
Washington, D.C.
Opinions my own. Reposts are not endorsements.
Signal: Delta.357
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-vergano-93908b4/- A Kevin Mullen @archaeokev.bsky.social
Damien Huffer @damienhuffer.bsky.social Working at the nexus of heritage and wildlife crime, w/a hefty dash of human remains trafficking research and advocacy | Res. Fellow Adelaide U. |🔎💵💀🖥️ | Taiko drummer, Home cook, Husband | Co-founder of @counteringcrime 🏳️🌈⚣ he/him
Dr. Stephennie Mulder @stephenniem.bsky.social Assoc prof of Islamic art at UT Austin, 24-25 NEH Fellow, Syria, archaeology, heritage. Formerly world-renowned author of "The Citizen Kane of Islam-centric cat-themed Twitter threads", now making an Arabic/English digital game set in 8th c. Syria
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social Recovering lawyer | Owned by a Pembroke Corgi | Host of Psycho Politics pod and contributor, @TheBulwark.com | Crappy pol | Trying to figure out Substack
substack.com/@gtconway
Blue Shield Ireland - National Committee @blueshield-ireland.bsky.social Blue Shield Irish National Committee: Protecting Cultural Heritage during armed conflicts and disasters 🏛️ Non-governmental & non-profit
Anna P. Judson @annapjudson.bsky.social Durham Classicist (languages, Linear B, epigraphy, archaeology). Member of WCC UK and WIASN. Blogging (intermittently) at http://itsallgreektoanna.wordpress.com. She/her
Dr Summer Rose Austin @summeraustin.bsky.social Archaeologist researching cultural heritage crime, looting, trafficking, il/licit markets, museum ethics and law | 1st Gen PhD from @uclarchaeology.bsky.social | she/her
No one is illegal on stolen land
Lynley McAlpine @lynleymcalpine.bsky.social Provenance researcher and Romanist in Texas
Angela S Chiu @chiuangelas.bsky.social Independent scholar of the market for Asian antiquities, especially Khmer and Thai. PhD Buddhist art and literature of Thailand. Author of The Buddha in Lanna (U of Hawai'i Press, 2017)
Benoît Fleury @benfle.com "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken."
https://benfle.com
MOLA @museumofloot.bsky.social Museum of Looted Antiquities is a virtual gallery that collects, displays and studies looted antiquities – and the trafficking networks behind them.
MuseumOfLoot.org
Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social @J_E_Barr at the other place. City of Angels.
#Provenance with a dash of Pleistocene. Collector of images of dealer stamps and stickers. Bad photos of good art & all opinions strictly my own. #jhuprovenance
Chasing Aphrodite @chasingaphrodite.bsky.social Researching the illicit antiquities trade for two decades as an investigative reporter, author, blogger, tweeter, investigator, founder @MuseumofLoot and now...skeeter?
https://ChasingAphrodite.com/
https://MuseumofLoot.org/
https://AchillesResearch.org/
Elizabeth Marlowe @lizmarlowe.bsky.social Art History & Museum Studies Prof. Ancient Rome, object biography, epistemology, museums, display, looting, provenance, forgery.
ARCA @arca-artcrime.bsky.social ARCA - Association for Research into Crimes against Art.
A civil society research and training organisation which works to promote the study and analysis of art and antiquities crime.
Lynda Albertson @sauterne.bsky.social Forensic researcher and cybrarian using bibliometric analysis to develop accurate quantitative analysis on subjects of illicit trafficking, organised crime and looted/stolen art and antiquities at ARCA. Friends say I am 'fingerspitzengefühl' with data. :)
CREW @citizensforethics.org CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) fights for the democracy Americans deserve and aims to build a government that is accountable, transparent and ethical.
citizensforethics.org
NellMinow @nellminow.bsky.social Movie critic, shareholder advocate #corpgov #movies she/her/mom www.authory.com/NellMinow I stand for: protecting the environment, reproductive health, dignity and respect for all except bullies, grifters, and haters. I lack decorum, per Congress.
Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com Leading digital news and information platform covering voting rights, elections, and the courts — from an unapologetically pro-democracy standpoint.
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@mokersel @mokersel.bsky.social archaeologist, adventurer, follower of pots and neolithic masks
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