Dan Hicks is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford and Curator of World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum. Hicks is the author of The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution, which was listed as one of The New York Times Best Art Books of 2020. In 2017, he was awarded the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Rivers Memorial Medal. His other books include A Cultural History of Objects; Archaeology and Photography: Time, Objectivity and Archive; and Lande: The Calais “Jungle” and Beyond.