Chip Colwell
Chip Colwell
Chip Colwellis the founding editor-in-chief of SAPIENS and former senior curator of anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. He has written and edited twelve books, and his essays have appeared widely, including in The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Atlantic. His TED Talk about the return of sacred objects from museums to Native Americans has been viewed more than 1 million times. He is the recipient of two National Council on Public History Book Awards and the Gordon R. Willey Prize of the American Anthropological Association.
Crossroads of Culture
Anthropology Collections at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science
- by Chip Colwell, Stephen E. Nash, and Steven R. Holen
Objects of Survivance
A Material History of the American Indian School Experience
- by Lindsay M. Montgomery and Chip Colwell
The Human Story, in 100 Objects or Less
A puzzle: If you had to represent the human story in just over 100 objects, which would you choose?




