Selected Essays
 

Book Of Earth: An Interview with Heidi Gustafson Athenaeum Review
Techno-Wizardry and the De-extinction of Celia the Ibex Athenaeum Review
The Power of Place & Time: Czesław Miłosz: A California Life by Cynthia L. Haven Athenaeum Review
“Ellsworth Kelly: Postcards” at the Blanton Glasstire
What A New Translation of Beowulf Says About Extinction LitHub
Smashing Statues: An Interview With Erin Thompson Glasstire
X-raying Picasso Glasstire
Pop Goes Politico: Pop Crítico at the Blanton Museum of Art Glasstire
Mining our Digital Past: “Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics” by Jacob Gaboury Glasstire
How To Think Outside, Around, In Between, and Beyond The Box Athenaeum Review
Without Limits: Helen Frankenthaler, Abstraction, and the Language of Print Glasstire
Patented: 1,000 Design Patents Glasstire
A Data Artist’s Guide to Putting People (and Privacy) First Hyperallergic
Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of Spectacle (review) American Historical Review
Analyzing the Biases in Art History With Hard Data Hyperallergic
Charles Darwin’s Descent of Man, 150 Years Later JSTOR Daily
Coins, Trinkets, Bits and Bobs Athenaeum Review
Restitution, Repatriation, & Decolonization: What’s Next for “Brutish Museums”? Glasstire
Bo Joseph’s “Feeding the Beast” at McClain, Houston Glasstire
All Together Now: “Prints and Their Makers” Glasstire
The Fascinating World of Neanderthal Aesthetics Hyperallergic
Diedrick Brackens Explores the Warps & Wefts of Black & Queer Histories Hyperallergic
Pushing Boundaries and Expanding Abstraction at the Blanton Glasstire
A Pocket Guide To Women Artists Overlooked By History Hyperallergic
Talking Back: Portraits Unmasked Glasstire
The Art of Mansplaining Glasstire
Like Flies To Honey: On Eric Cline’s “Digging Up Armageddon” LARB
Not “If” But “When”: An Artist Looks Into Upgrade Culture Glasstire
Stuff and its Discontents Women’s Review of Books
A Mycological Foray: A New Look At John Cage and His Mushroom Obsession Glasstire
Eileen Gray, An Architect Ahead of Her Time, Reclaims The Spotlight Hyperallergic
Maya Clothing: What They Wore Archaeology Magazine
The Avant-Garde Networks of Amauta: Argentina, Mexico, and Peru in the 1920s Glasstire
Conserving the Art & Legacy of Spain’s First Recorded Female Artist Hyperallergic
In Search of Prehistoric Potatoes Archaeology Magazine
How the First Non-Natural Diamond Was Grown in a GE Lab Science Friday
Resetting The Clock: What Does It Mean To Rebuild Notre-Dame? History Today
Tortoise Futures LARB
Interactive Installations Prod Visitors Out of Their Comfort Zones Hyperallergic
Denisovans at Altitude Archaeology Magazine
Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders Glasstire
His Whaleship: The Stories of Real, Authentic, Dead Whales Not Even Past
Belated Acclaim for Dorothy Hood’s Surreal Abstractions Hyperallergic
In Maria Antelman’s Work, Technology Is More Than Just a Tool Hyperallergic
Diamonds In the Rough: Synthetic Gems From Pliny To Lightbox Athenaeum Review
In the 21st Century, Fake Doesn’t Have to Mean Fraud BBC Science Focus
Subverting the Whiteness of Antiquity Hyperallergic
Upper Paleolithic Cave Life Archaeology Magazine
Mapping Non-European Visions of the World Hyperallergic
You Say What You Eat Archaeology Magazine
The Stories in Bones LARB
Copies, Fakes, & Reproductions Hyperallergic
The Diplodocus and the Robber Baron Pacific Standard
Dismantling the Narrative of Soviet Socialist Realism Versus American Abstract Expressionism Hyperallergic
The Art of Reading: A Brief History of Books Depicted in Western Art Hyperallergic
Mild Boars Archaeology Magazine
A Rare Persian Textile Offers Surprising Insight Into Paradise Hyperallergic
Rising Star Found A New Species — Now It Wants To Find A New Way For Paleoanthropology Ars Technica
I Hate To Wait: On Jason Farman’s “Delayed Response” LARB
Early Americans, Top 10 Discoveries in 2018 Archaeology Magazine
Hominin Hybrid, Top 10 Discoveries in 2018 Archaeology Magazine
A Fantastic Recreation of a Renaissance Cabinet of Curiosities Hyperallergic
Another Form of Slavery Archaeology Magazine
Five Centuries of Play Between Word and Image Hyperallergic
History for Sale: On Paige Williams’s “The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth’s Ultimate Trophy” LARB
Hopi Visions: Journey of the Human Spirit Hyperallergic
Ice Age Necropolis     Archaeology Magazine
The Secret Lives of Bookshelves     Kinfolk Magazine (print only)
The Art of Creating Replicas  of Ice Age Cave Paintings     Hyperallergic
A History of Ink In Six Objects     History Today
Neanderthals Made Cave Paintings Before Modern Humans Ever Reached Europe     Hyperallergic
An Artist and Anthropologist Reinterpret Stone Age Tools as Sculpture     Hyperallergic
Invisible Cities: Where Travelers Go Everywhere and Nowhere     Los Angeles Review of Books
Yvette Borup Andrews: Photographing Central Asia     Public Domain Review
The Bookshelves of Ancient Ebla     History Today
The Second Life of Mongolian Fossils     The Atlantic
Your Paintings Are Numbered     Hyperallergic
Rewilding the Steppe: Restoring the Prehistoric Horse     JSTOR Daily
Taking Stock of Biobanking     Undark Magazine
When The Last Shall Be First     LA Review of Books
The Statistics of Coin Tosses For Theater Geeks     JSTOR Daily
Open Sourcing Lucy, the World's Most Famous Fossil     Ars Technica
How 'Lucy' Became Such A Famous Fossil     Time
Why We Still Love Lucy     History Today
How To Sell 100,000 Sci-Fi Books     Electric Literature
Writing About Fossils Found By Men     Lady Science
When Fossils Come to Life     Powells
The Paradox of Doping in Mountain Climbing     Nautilus
World's Best Natural History Museums    Fodor's
The Neanderthal in the Mirror     The Scientist
The Object History of a Persian Rug     JSTOR Daily
The Sticky History of Adhesives     JSTOR Daily
Complexity in Simplicity: 3 Technologies In Ceramics     JSTOR Daily
Inside The Alchemist's Workshop     JSTOR Daily
We Didn't Start the Fire (Neanderthals Did)     JSTOR Daily
Why Do We Imagine The Future Without Bookshelves?     New Orleans Review
Bookshelves At Sea      Bloomsbury Literary Studies
How One Company Designed the Bookshelves that Made America’s Biggest Libraries Possible     Slate Vault
Are There Bookshelves in the Future? Seven Science Fiction Libraries     Electric Literature
Bookshelf  (excerpt)     LitHub
Dear Paleoanthropology, Homo Naledi Just Shifted Your Paradigm     JSTOR Daily
Neanderthals in 3D     Public Domain Review
Isaac the Robot     The Atlantic
To Russia, With Love    The Appendix
Our Neanderthal Complex     Nautilus
Tools of the Trade    Unmaking Things
Quests For Fire: Neanderthals in SciFi    The Appendix
Unemployed     South 85
Impressions of the Pleistocene     Twilight Beasts
Piltdown Man: The Hoax    The Appendix
Ditsong Dioramas: Putting a Face on a Fossil     The Appendix
The Taung Child's Box: A 20th Century Reliquary     Unmaking Things
Saint George & the Pterodactyl      The Appendix
A Fortune Not Fowl      Marco Polo Literary Magazine
When Metaphor Writes History     Somatosophere
Creating the Human Past (review)    Paleoanthropology
Life Histories and Dynamic Objects: Klasies River Mouth     Curator: The Museum Journal
Archives of Identity (review of The genealogical science)     Metascience