Antiquities Trafficking, Provenance, Repatriation
Adding fellow trafficking researchers as they settle in over here. Shoot me your handle if I missed you.
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@chasingaphrodite.bsky.social
@michaelblanding.bsky.social
Investigative journalist and author of The Map Thief (NYT bestseller) and In Shakespeare’s Shadow. Upcoming book, Divine Right, explores Hobby Lobby, looted antiquities, and the rise of Christian Nationalism (PublicAffairs, 2026). www.michaelblanding.com
@keridouglas.bsky.social
Global, Innovation, Leadership Formerly at The White House, Voice of America, Swiss Embassy #Warsaw #NewDehli #Beirut #Athens #Berlin #Entrepreneur #AncientCultures #ArtCrime #Intelligence Editor www.9musesnews.com
@historyofmack.bsky.social
Provenance, mostly of art but other things too. Kansas City, Missouri Provenance Specialist, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Personal account.
@plunderedart.bsky.social
researching and documenting the history of art objects and the people responsible for their misappropriation, and advocating for their restitution to rightful owners.
@museumofbc.bsky.social
Transnational network confronting British colonialism UK, Kenya, and beyond. http://museumofbritishcolonialism.org/ourblog http://museumofbritishcolonialism.org/support
@mcsts.bsky.social
Heritage scientist. Director Rathgen Research Laboratory. 💚 Fulbright Canada Distinguished Chair in Arts and Social Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa,ON
@jstpwalsh.bsky.social
Space archaeologist, hab consultant, ancient Mediterranean, heritage | Prof at Chapman U | Fellow at USC | Explorers Club 50 | https://issarchaeology.org / http://brickmoonspace.com | He/him | Settler on unceded Tongva land (LA) | avi by Zach Weinersmith
@loganjaffe.bsky.social
Reporter, newsletters @ProPublica.org. Public History grad student @loyolahistdept.bsky.social. Fellow, New America US@250 initiative. Floridian in the Midwest.
@brenthuffman.bsky.social
#Documentary Filmmaker/Professor Director of Documentary #Journalism at #Northwestern Director of "Saving Mes Aynak" New documentary about #Yemen Passionate about #humanrights, #socialjustice #heritage #Afghanistan #China www.germancamera.com
@andybrouwer.bsky.social
Consumed by the history and art of the Khmer of Cambodia l UK born l Phnom Penh resident l football fanatic & music lover (Steel Pulse, Ennio Morricone).
@coloniallegacy.bsky.social
Dieses Projekt ist beendet. Forschungsstelle Hamburgs (post-)koloniales Erbe / Hamburg und die frühe Globalisierung. Gefördert 2014-2025. Impressum: http://kolonialismus.uni-hamburg.de/impressum/
@angelinagiovani.bsky.social
Art Historian & Provenance Researcher Co-founder of Flynn & Giovani Art Provenance Research. Director of the Art Market Academy.
@ppr-smb.bsky.social
Official bluesky account of the postcolonial provenance research team at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin @kulturspk https://www.smb.museum/forschung/provenienzforschung/
@thecolimadog.bsky.social
Art Historian and (self proclaimed) Curator of Colima Dogs | West Mexico | Provenance | Cipactli's #1 Fan BA Tulane, MA CU Boulder 🌊🦬She/Her
@heritageunivie.bsky.social
Account of Cultural Heritage Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. Exploring material & immaterial objects, their preservation, promotion, and political context.
@dr-m-trabucco.bsky.social
Anglo-Sicilian, classical archaeologist, antirepatriationist, defender of the #ElginMarbles. On BBC5live, GBNews, SkyNews, LBC, The Critic Magazine. Proudly #Conservative. DM x media https://linktr.ee/elginmarbles
@lucians.bsky.social
Head of Provenance Research @metmuseum.bsky.social. 18th Century Decorative Arts, whippets, gardening.
@richardbott.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Macquarie University writing about fakes, forgeries, provenance, museums, and the antiquities trade
@ofpprojekt.bsky.social
Das OFP-Projekt im Brandenburgischen Landeshauptarchiv https://t.co/dNTnTwMR5L
@dballestero.bsky.social
Anthropologist/Decolonialism/Provenance research reddecolonial.hypotheses.org http://uni-bonn.academia.edu/DiegoBallestero http://transformationalhps.org
@unesco.org
Building peace where it starts - in the minds of women & men. Official BlueSky account of UNESCO. #Education #Sciences #Culture #Communication #Information
@anaismattez.bsky.social
Researcher in international law, cultural property, PhD @hkulaw, alumni @sciencespo currently @Harvard
@astridcoracini.bsky.social
International law @unisalzburg.bsky.social and @univie.ac.at | into use of force, international humanitarian law, international criminal justice & protection of cultural heritage
@margauxdumas.bsky.social
Docteure en histoire contemporaine et histoire de l’art. Spoliation, restitution, mémoire.
@davidwjgill.bsky.social
Professor of Archaeological Heritage researching the history and ethics of collecting material culture. Heritage and its impact. Museums & Archives. FRSA FSA https://linktr.ee/davidwjgill
@athenasvases.bsky.social
Assistant Research Curator, interested in ancient Mediterranean art, particularly Greek vases, provenance research, and digital humanities
@pankerstin.bsky.social
Historian of science, museums & collecting in Berlin. Provenance research on objects from colonial contexts in East Asia: Zoological specimens (insects!) from Taiwan // Art & ethnographica from China looted in the 'Boxer War'. Kayaks, swimming & mountains
@cypriotartleeds.bsky.social
Material culture historian, exploring the history of Cypriot archaeology and ancient Cypriot collections in UK museums. Ceramics fan. ECR Associate at the Institute of Classical Studies, London and Associate Lecturer in Classics at the Open University.
@heritagelaw.bsky.social
Professor of Law at UNSW Sydney. Specialized in international law, primarily cultural heritage law, human rights, and a bunch of other fun things. Let's chat / hang!
@arca-artcrime.bsky.social
ARCA - Association for Research into Crimes against Art. A civil society research and training organisation which works to promote the study and analysis of art and antiquities crime.
@idanthyrsus.bsky.social
Art/tech/int'l law focused | Late Antiquity and Silk Road art history obsessive
@stephenniem.bsky.social
Assoc prof of Islamic art at UT Austin, 24-25 NEH Fellow, Syria, archaeology, heritage. Formerly world-renowned author of "The Citizen Kane of Islam-centric cat-themed Twitter threads", now making an Arabic/English digital game set in 8th c. Syria
@petercnstewart.bsky.social
Professor of Ancient Art. Director of the Classical Art Research Centre at Oxford University @carcoxford.bsky.social. Chair of Trustees at The Brooking @thebrooking.bsky.social. Antiquity, modernism, arts.
@livnstutz.bsky.social
Professor of Archaeology. Interested in ritual practice, death, the body, the ethics and politics of human remains, hunter-gatherers, pop culture, politics, art, and aesthetics. More of my work on ethics&human remains: https://ethicalentanglements.online/
@fabienbp.bsky.social
Maître de conférences, historien de l'art et archéologue : Grande Grèce, iconographie antique, réception de l'Antiquité dans la culture populaire, open access... Univ-Lorraine, INSPE 🌈🏺 🔶 @antiquipop.bsky.social, Feminicon, @Frontiere-s.bsky.social
@petertarras.bsky.social
Postdoc @jacculturelmu.bsky.social | Blog: http://medisi.hypotheses.org | Book History | Manuscript Studies | Provenance | Oriens Christianus | Intellectual History | SciCom | #FirstGen https://lmu-munich.academia.edu/PeterTarras
@barnabyphillips.bsky.social
Journalist and author. 'Loot- Britain and the Benin Bronzes' & 'Another Man's War'..I was a correspondent based in Athens, Jo'burg Lagos, Luanda & Maputo..Now back in my native N1 #COYG
@helenaarose.bsky.social
Archaeologist | Director of Programs, Antiquities Coalition | Researcher of antiquities trafficking + cultural heritage protection | Personal account
@chiuangelas.bsky.social
Independent scholar of the market for Asian antiquities, especially Khmer and Thai. PhD Buddhist art and literature of Thailand. Author of The Buddha in Lanna (U of Hawai'i Press, 2017)
@rumorahasit.bsky.social
streetwise hercules / assistant curator of ancient art at toledo museum of art
@noahangell.bsky.social
Artist / Author of Ghosts of the British Museum, a narrative non-fiction book about the museum's many ghosts. Wayfaring North Carolinian. Represented by Zoe Ross at United Agents. https://linktr.ee/ghostsofthebritishmuseum
@theuniversalben.bsky.social
Telling stories about art within the bigger picture of soc, econ and pol. Last Leonardo, Art Bust, Art Safari – Books. Podcasts. Documentaries www.benlewisprojects.com #arthistory
@jebarr.bsky.social
@J_E_Barr at the other place. City of Angels. #Provenance with a dash of Pleistocene. Collector of images of dealer stamps and stickers. Bad photos of good art & all opinions strictly my own. #jhuprovenance
@majoraz.bsky.social
Mesoamerican history-archeology enthusiast/consulting; Pokken; Halo, Digimon, Gash/Zatch Bell, DBZ, Sonic Adventure 2, Asura's Wrath, JJBA & G Gundam, Copyright reformist https://x.com/Majora__Z
@marcfennell.bsky.social
Journalist 👑 Stuff The British Stole (ABC/CBC) 🧠 Mastermind (SBS) 🎨 Framed (SBS) 🏫 School That Tried To End Racism (ABC) 🥜 NutJobs 🌶 It Burns (Audible)
@petercampbell.bsky.social
Heritage crime investigations, underwater explorer, unreliable narrator, future ghost
@schuhmacher.bsky.social
Executive Director, Provenance Research, Art Institute of Chicago: https://www.artic.edu/collection-information/provenance-research
@profdanhicks.bsky.social
Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University • Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford • Tutor Art/Anthropology • https://linktr.ee/danhicks
@lizmarlowe.bsky.social
Art History & Museum Studies Prof. Ancient Rome, object biography, epistemology, museums, display, looting, provenance, forgery.
@electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy
prof of DH at carleton u. Archaeologist of things Digital, Roman, and Outer Space. Editor of epoiesen.carleton.ca. Sometimes blog at […] [bridged from https://scholar.social/@electricarchaeo on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@luilog.bsky.social
Antiquities crime researcher, science communicator, journalist, feminist, nerd. This is a private account - expect cats, Star Trek, and half-baked musings about life as a new mum academic in the anti-intellectual capitalist patriarchy.
@elginism.bsky.social
Parthenon Sculptures (AKA Elgin Marbles) plus other cultural property disputes, museums, art law, archaeology, architecture & Greece. Formerly London based, now in Sydney.
@pandosia.bsky.social
Art Historian and museum person. Greek Archaeology, Greek Vases, Cultural Heritage, Digital Humanities, Human rights. LGBTQIA rights. Robin Hood of image rights.
@chancebonar.bsky.social
Researching early Christianity, slavery, authorship, antisemitism, violence, and more Cat dad | 🏳️🌈 http://chancebonar.com Books: https://bit.ly/3R8LXbo & https://bit.ly/4iMBSwy
@sarah-krienen.bsky.social
Classical archaeology M.A. Cultural heritage protection, looting, antiquities crime. Goldsmith, sewist, historical clothing. She/her
@andrewheavens.bsky.social
By Andrew Heavens, author of "The Prince and the Plunder", about how Britain took piles of loot and one small boy from Ethiopia. Interested in all things pillaged, and in Bob, and in skiffle.
@sauterne.bsky.social
Forensic researcher and cybrarian using bibliometric analysis to develop accurate quantitative analysis on subjects of illicit trafficking, organised crime and looted/stolen art and antiquities at ARCA. Friends say I am 'fingerspitzengefühl' with data. :)
@vastarchive.bsky.social
senior lecturer in ancient history at KCL. Working on ancient Iran, Persepolis & history of collecting & scholarship re: both
@dremilinesmith.bsky.social
Lecturer in Criminology at SCCJR @ Uni of Glasgow. https://tinyurl.com/EmilineSmith Research: cultural & natural resources • crime & harms • justice • oceans. ♡ Vegan ♡ tea ♡ scuba diving. www.stolenstatues.com www.oceanculturelife.com
@openartdata.bsky.social
Art provenance research through open, accessible, searchable data bases. #kg #museum #art #networks #textanalysis https://www.openartdata.org
@museumofloot.bsky.social
Museum of Looted Antiquities is a virtual gallery that collects, displays and studies looted antiquities that have been repatriated since 1950 – and the trafficking networks behind them. MuseumOfLoot.org
@summeraustin.bsky.social
Archaeologist researching cultural heritage crime, looting, trafficking, il/licit markets, museum ethics and law | 1st Gen PhD Candidate at @uclarchaeology.bsky.social | she/her
@drdonnayates.bsky.social
I'm an archaeologist, a criminologist, and an unqualified dinosaur lawyer. I study passion and deviance related to fossils & antiquities, art crime, heritage, and culture from the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University. Arty stuff and related curiosities.
@damienhuffer.bsky.social
Working at the nexus of heritage and wildlife crime, w/a hefty dash of human remains trafficking research and advocacy | Res. Fellow U. Adelaide |🔎💵💀🖥️ | Taiko drummer, Home cook, Husband | Co-founder of @counteringcrime 🏳️🌈⚣ he/him
@artcrimeprof.bsky.social
Art crime prof at CUNY. Follow for how-to tips on art forgery. Also: repatriation; monuments; classics; museum shenanigans. She/her; queer. www.artcrimeprof.com
@chasingaphrodite.bsky.social
Researching the illicit antiquities trade for two decades as an investigative reporter, author, blogger, tweeter, investigator, founder @MuseumofLoot and now...skeeter? https://ChasingAphrodite.com/ https://MuseumofLoot.org/ https://AchillesResearch.org/