Chip Colwell is the founding editor-in-chief of SAPIENS, an online magazine about anthropological thinking and discoveries for the general public. He received his PhD from Indiana University and was the Senior Curator of Anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science for 12 years. He has held fellowships with the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Rockefeller Foundation, and J. William Fulbright Program.
He has served on the editorial boards of the American Anthropologist, American Antiquity, International Journal of Cultural Property, and other journals, and was elected to the Society for American Archaeology board of directors. Numerous grants have supported his research, including from the Templeton Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and National Science Foundation.
He has published more than 75 academic articles and book chapters, and 13 books. His work has been highlighted in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, and BBC. He is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Anthropology in Media Award from the American Anthropological Association, Gordon R. Willey Prize of the American Anthropological Association, Mountain-Plains Museums Association Leadership and Innovation Award, Society for Historical Archaeology James Deetz Book Award, Council for Museum Anthropology Book Award, and two National Council on Public History Book Awards.
Chip Colwell is the founding editor-in-chief of SAPIENS, an online magazine about anthropological thinking and discoveries for the general public. He received his PhD from Indiana University and was the Senior Curator of Anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science for 12 years. He has held fellowships with the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Rockefeller Foundation, and J. William Fulbright Program.
He has served on the editorial boards of the American Anthropologist, American Antiquity, International Journal of Cultural Property, and other journals, and was elected to the Society for American Archaeology board of directors. Numerous grants have supported his research, including from the Templeton Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and National Science Foundation.
He has published more than 75 academic articles and book chapters, and 13 books. His work has been highlighted in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, and BBC. He is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Anthropology in Media Award from the American Anthropological Association, Gordon R. Willey Prize of the American Anthropological Association, Mountain-Plains Museums Association Leadership and Innovation Award, Society for Historical Archaeology James Deetz Book Award, Council for Museum Anthropology Book Award, and two National Council on Public History Book Awards.