Chip Colwell’s essays and editorials have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, among other magazines and newspapers, while his research has been covered by such outlets as the BBC, National Geographic, and Forbes. His book Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture received enthusiastic reviews in the Wall Street Journal, Science, New Scientist, and elsewhere. It has received six prizes, including the Society for Historical Archaeology James Deetz Book Award and the National Council on Public History Book Award.
After 12 years at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Dr. Colwell left in 2020 as the Senior Curator of Anthropology. He has received grants and fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, National Endowment for the Humanities, Rockefeller Foundation, Fulbright Program, and National Science Foundation. He has written and edited 12 books. Viewers have watched his TEDx talk more than 1 million times.
Although a serious academic, Dr. Colwell talks and writes like a normal human being. He is the Editor-in-Chief of SAPIENS—an online magazine published by the Wenner-Gren Foundation about anthropological thinking and discoveries—and co-host of the SAPIENS Podcast.
After 12 years at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Dr. Colwell left in 2020 as the Senior Curator of Anthropology. He has received grants and fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, National Endowment for the Humanities, Rockefeller Foundation, Fulbright Program, and National Science Foundation. He has written and edited 12 books. Viewers have watched his TEDx talk more than 1 million times.
Although a serious academic, Dr. Colwell talks and writes like a normal human being. He is the Editor-in-Chief of SAPIENS—an online magazine published by the Wenner-Gren Foundation about anthropological thinking and discoveries—and co-host of the SAPIENS Podcast.
Chip acknowledges his home in Colorado is on the traditional lands of 48 Native American tribes who now live throughout the American Southwest, Great Plains, and Rocky Mountains.