📚 I’m thrilled to share that “Researching a Rigged Game: Digital Approaches to Tracing the Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects”, edited by @dremilinesmith.bsky.social and myself, is now published and available as Open Access via @springernature.com.

🔗https://lnkd.in/gBCv2KDH

Excited (and relieved!) to share that I have officially submitted my doctoral thesis: “Tut on Tour: 30 Years of Demand Creation through Blockbuster Exhibition” at @uclarchaeology.bsky.social

I’m grateful to my supervisors, colleagues, friends, and family for their unending support throughout!

"Right-wing collectors were fueling an online market for Nazi-era paraphernalia, and the workers feared that looters might sneak into the site at night looking for trophies"

Very interesting read but caution that there are several images of human remains

In today's issue of how museums' are complicit in the trade of cultural heritage, we have the Young V&A displaying an Egyptian coffin that is for sale 🤬 www.instagram.com/p/DGc3danuUtV/ & www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/...

I also have an edited volume with Dr Emiline Smith in production titled “Researching a Rigged Game: Open Source Data & the Trade in Cultural Heritage” due out in 2025 from Springer Law

Since we all seem to be flocking here, thought it would be good to do an introduction. I’m an archaeologist that focuses on cultural heritage crime. My PhD research investigates the impact of Tutankhamen blockbuster museum exhibitions on the market for Egyptian material & how that influences crime.