My Books

I have authored and edited ten books. My latest, published in June 2027, is World War Zero: how colonial war made our world. My other most recent books are Every Monument Will Fall: a story of remembering and forgetting (named one of Art Forum’s Best Books of 2025) and The Brutish Museums: the Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence, and Cultural Restitution (named one of the New York Times Best Art Books of 2020).

Other books include Lande: the Calais “Jungle” and Beyond (with Sarah Mallet, 2019) and Archaeology and Photography (edited with Lesley McFadyen, 2019). I have also completed a number of major editorial projects: The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology (edited with Mary Beaudry, 2006), The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies (edited with Mary Beaudry, 2010), World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization (edited with Alice Stevenson, 2013) and the six-volume A Cultural History of Objects (with William Whyte, 2021).