Chip Colwell now serves as the Program Director for Public Anthropology at the Wenner-Gren Foundation. He co-founded and served as Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Director of SAPIENS Magazine from 2015 to 2025, and was Senior Curator of Anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science from 2007 to 2020. He has taught at Stanford University and the University of Mauritius, and is an Associate Research Professor at the University of Colorado Denver.
His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Atlantic, and he has been widely interviewed for radio, podcasts, and television. His TEDx Talk has been viewed more than 1.5 million times. He has held fellowships and grants from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and J. William Fulbright Program.
Dr. Colwell has published more than 75 academic articles and book chapters, and is the author or editor of 13 books. These include Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture, which received six book awards, and most recently So Much Stuff: How Humans Discovered Tools, Invented Meaning, and Made More of Everything, which was published by the University of Chicago Press, and is being translated into Turkish, German, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean.
Chip Colwell now serves as the Program Director for Public Anthropology at the Wenner-Gren Foundation. He co-founded and served as Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Director of SAPIENS Magazine from 2015 to 2025, and was Senior Curator of Anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science from 2007 to 2020. He has taught at Stanford University and the University of Mauritius, and is an Associate Research Professor at the University of Colorado Denver.
His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Atlantic, and he has been widely interviewed for radio, podcasts, and television. His TEDx Talk has been viewed more than 1.5 million times. He has held fellowships and grants from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and J. William Fulbright Program.
Dr. Colwell has published more than 75 academic articles and book chapters, and is the author or editor of 13 books. These include Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture, which received six book awards, and most recently So Much Stuff: How Humans Discovered Tools, Invented Meaning, and Made More of Everything, which was published by the University of Chicago Press, and is being translated into Turkish, German, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean.