Lviv- I’ve uploaded my latest travel vlog out today about all that crossing from southern Poland to western Ukraine entailed (and on Ukrainian independence day no less). It was a rather long, hot, thrilling journey from one living architectural gem…
Lviv- I’ve just restarted my crossing borders series on my Fabled City channel as part of documenting my time here in Ukraine. We all see plenty of news reports from here of course, but how to non-local journalists actually get…
Berlin- I have a new vlog out today on my Fabled City channel that touches on a bit of the Cold War history of this storied, complicated capital and its current geopolitical predicament as embattled Ukraine’s principal EU lifeline. As…
Berlin- I published my first long form history vlog in a while about the mysterious origins of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Cycladic culture collection back home in NYC. These idols, or figurines, are inherently fascinating because for what seems…
New York-I went down a minor Twitter rabbit hole yesterday (still not calling it X) and discovered that some of my fieldwork in Syria & Turkey in 2014 was cited in Conflict with ISIS: Operation INHERENT RESOLVE, June 2014–January 2020…
New York- My work in Iraq during the war against IS for the Combatting Terrorism Center at West Point is cited (pp. 29, 33) in this new volume Surviving the Islamic State by Austin Knuppe, an academic at Utah State…