Chip Colwell’s essays and editorials have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and many other popular periodicals, 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 was written for a broad audience and received enthusiastic reviews in the Wall Street Journal, Science, New Scientist, and elsewhere. It received a 2018 Colorado Book Award and the 2019 National Council on Public History Book Award.
For his day job, Dr. Colwell is the Senior Curator of Anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. He has received grants and fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, National Endowment for the Humanities, Rockefeller Foundation, J. William Fulbright Program, and National Science Foundation. He has written and edited 12 books.
Although a serious academic, Dr. Colwell talks and writes like a normal human being. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of SAPIENS—an online magazine about anthropological thinking and discoveries—and co-host of the SAPIENS Podcast. Viewers have watched his TED talk more than 1 million times.
For his day job, Dr. Colwell is the Senior Curator of Anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. He has received grants and fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, National Endowment for the Humanities, Rockefeller Foundation, J. William Fulbright Program, and National Science Foundation. He has written and edited 12 books.
Although a serious academic, Dr. Colwell talks and writes like a normal human being. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of SAPIENS—an online magazine about anthropological thinking and discoveries—and co-host of the SAPIENS Podcast. Viewers have watched his TED talk more than 1 million times.
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.