National Lecture Program

AIA Lecturer: Chip Colwell

Affiliation: Denver Museum of Nature and Science

Chip Colwell is the Senior Curator of Anthropology with the Denver Musem of Nature and Science, a Lecturer with the University of Colorado at Denver, and Visitng Lecturer at Stanford University.  He holds his degrees from Indiana University (M.A. and Ph.D.) and the University of Arizona, and his expertise is in Native American culture and history.  Dr. Colwell is the founding editor-in-chief of SAPIENS, an online magazine dedicated to anthropology for the public.  His most recent publication is Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture (University of Chicago Press).

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