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…
New York- I have a new vlog on my Fabled City channel this week where I roam around the gloriously restored Untermyer Park & Gardens in Yonkers, a working class suburb on the city’s northern periphery. At once both grandiose…
New York- I’m pleased to share that my fieldwork in Iraq from the war against IS circa 2016-17 is cited in a new book called Death, Dominance, and State-Building by MIT professor Roger D. Petersen published this month by Oxford…
