articles & chapters

Peer Reviewed Articles & Chapters

2024 “On Redactions: Fragmented Thoughts on FOIA Requests & Appeals” in Redactions: Writing in the Negative Space of the State, pp 167-173, Lisa Min, Franck Bille, & Charlene Makley, eds. Earth, Milky Way: Punctum Press.

2023 “A Hubristic Windmill off Harvard Yard: Historically Situating the Department of Social Relations” Reviews in Anthropology December 25, 2023, 1-18.

2021 “How Others See Us: Anthropologists, WikiLeaks, and the Vertical Slice.” Public Anthropologist. 3(2):253-276.

2021 [Translation into Japanese of “On the Development and Scope of John Embree’s Early Cold War Critiques.”] 歴史と民間伝承 (History and Folklore) Institute for the Study of Japanese Folk Culture Publication Volume 37, March 2021, 187-209.

2020 “Project Man in Space: Applied Anthropology’s Cold War Space Oddity.” Journal of Anthropological Research Fall 2020, 76(3):326-346.

2019 Introduction to “Militarizing Knowledge” section, and section editor, for The Militarism Reader, edited by Robert J. González, Hugh Gusterson, Gustaaf Houtman, 249-273. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.

2019 “Counter-lineages within the history of anthropology: on disciplinary ancestors’ activism.” Anthropology Today 35 (1):12-16.

2018 “Radical memories: an interview with John H. Moore and documents from a communist anthropologist’s past.” Dialectical Anthropology DOI 10.1007/s10624-018-9516-7.

2018 “Questioning our agency Inside Agencies: Rethinking the Possibility of Scholars’ Critical Contributions to Security Agencies.” Contemporary Social Science January 2018, 1-16.

2017 [with Sindre Bagstad and Børn Bertelsen]“’Anthropologists are talking’: About Anthropology, The Cold War, and the ‘War on Terror.’” In Sindre Bangstad, ed. Anthropology of Our Times: An Edited Anthropology of Public Anthropology. 93-108, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

2017 [With Sindre Bangstad, Ifran Ahmad, John R. Bowen, Ilana Feldman, Angelique Haugerud, Richard Ashby Wilson & Mayanthi L. Fernando] “Anthropological Publics, Public Anthropology.” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7(1): 489-508.

2015 ”A Short History of American Anthropological Ethics, Codes, Principles, Responsibilities—Professional and Otherwise.” In Anthropological Ethics in Context, eds. Dena Plemmons and Alex Barker, 23-38. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.

2015 “Be Open and Honest.” In Anthropological Ethics in Context, eds. Dena Plemmons and Alex Barker, 91-106. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.

2014 “Karl August Wittfogel.” In Concise Encyclopedia of Comparative Sociology, eds. Masamichi Sasaki, Jack Goldstone, Ekkart Zimmermann, Stephen K. Sanderson, 667 – 669. Boston and Leiden: Brill.

2014 “Counterinsurgency by Other Names: Complicating Humanitarian Applied Anthropology in Current, Former, and Future Warzones.” Human Organization 73(2):95-105.

2013 “The Role of Culture in Wars Wage by Robots: Connecting Drones, Anthropology, and the Human Terrain System’s Prehistory.” In Neil L. Whitehead and Sverker Finnström, eds., 46-64, Virtual War and Magical Death: Technologies and Imaginaries for Terror and Killing. Durham: Duke University Press.

2013 “Militarization and Anthropology.” Annotated bibliography, Oxford Bibliographies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com

2012 [co-authored with Michael Price & Robert A. Rubinstein] “Material Support: U.S. Anti-Terrorism Law Threatens Human Rights and Academic Freedom.” Anthropology Today 28(1):3-5.

2012 “Counterinsurgency and the M-VICO System: Human Relations Area Files and Anthropology’s Dual-Use Legacy.” Anthropology Today 28(1):16-20.

2011 “George Peter Murdock,” Fifty Key Anthropologists. Eds. Robert Gordon, Andrew P. Lyons and Harriet D. Lyons, 162-167. London: Routledge.

2011 “Pre-Apocalyptic Ethnography of American Nuclear Borderlands.Dialectical Anthropology 35:51-57.

2011 “Uninvited Guests: A Short History of the CIA on Campus.” The CIA on Campus: Essays on Academic Freedom and the National Security State. Pp 33-60. Philip Zwerling ed., Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland Publishing.

2011 “How the CIA and Pentagon Harnessed Anthropological Research during the Second World War and Cold War with Little Critical Notice.” Journal of Anthropological Research Fall 2011, 67(3):333-356.

2011 “Counterinsurgency, Vietnam, Thailand, and the Political Uses of Militarized Anthropology.” In Dangerous Liaisons: Anthropologists and the National Security State. Laura A. McNamara & Robert Rubinstein eds., 51-76, Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press.

2010 “Soft Power, Hard Power and the Antropological ‘Leveraging’ of Cultural ‘Assets’: Distilling the Politics and Ethics of Anthropological Counterinsurgency.” Pp 245-260, in John D. Kelly, Beatrice Jauregui, Sean T. Mitchell & Jeremy Walton eds., Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

2010 “The Army’s Take on Culture.” Anthropology Now 2(1):57-63.

2010 “Governing Fear in the Iron Cage of Rationalism: Terry Gilliam’s Brazil Through the 9/11 Looking Glass.” Pp 167-182, in Reframing 9/11: Film, Popular Culture and the “War on Terror. Eds. Jeff Birkenstein, Anna Froula & Karen Randell. New York: Continuum.

2010 “Counterinsurgency.” In Alan Bernard & Jonathan Spencer eds., The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology, 2nd ed. Pp 162-164. London: Routledge.

2010 “Comments on Setha M. Low & Sally Engle Merry’s “Engaged Anthropology: Diversity And Dilemmas.’” Current Anthropology 51, Supplement 2:S217-S218.

2008 “Materialism’s Free Pass: Karl Wittfogel, McCarthyism and the ‘Bureaucratization of Guilt.’” In ed., Dustin Wax, Anthropology at the Dawn of the Cold War. Pp 37-61. London: Pluto.

2008 “On the Ambivalence of Orthodoxy in American Anthropology.” Reviews in Anthropology 37(2): 101-121.

2008 “McCarthyism.” In International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition, William A. Darity, Jr. ed., Volume 5, pages 43-44. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA.

2007 “Earle Reynolds: Sientist, Citizen and Cold War Dissident.” In ed., Barbara Rose Johnston. Half-Lives and Half-Truths: Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War. Pp. 55-76. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press.

2007 “Buying a Piece o Anthropology, Part One: Human Ecology and Unwitting Anthropological Research for the CIA” Anthropology Today 23(3):8-13.

2007 “Buying a Piece of Anthropology, Part Two: The CIA and our Tortured Past.” Anthropology Today 23(5):17-22.

2007 “Anthropology as Lamppost? A Comment on the Counterinsurgency Field Manual.” Anthropology Today 23(6):20-21.

2005 “America the Ambivalent: Quietly Selling Anthropology to the CIA.” Anthropology Today 21(5):1-2.

2005 [co-authored with William J. Peace] “Bernhard Stern and Leslie A. White on the Church and Religion.” In Regna Darnell & Frederic W. Gleach eds., Histories of Anthropology Annual, Volume 1. pp 114-131. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

2005 “El FBI y las ciencias sociales.” Historia anthropología y Fuentes Orales 34(3):29-46.

2005 [co-authored with Eric B. Ross] “Introduction to Special Issue on ‘Friends and Foes: Anthropologists and the Making of ‘the Enemy.’” Anthropology in Action 12(3):vii-ix.

2005 “Anthropology and Total Warfare: The Office of Strategic Service’s 1943 ‘Preliminary Report on Japanese Anthropology.” Anthropology in Action 12(3):12-20.

2004 “Tribal Communism Under Fire: Archie Phinney and the FBI.” Journal of Northwest Anthropology (Special Issue: Remembering Archie Phinney, A Nes Perce Scholar) 38(1):21-32.

2004 “Standing Up For Academic Freedom: The Case of Irving Goldman.” Anthropology Today 20(4):16-21

2004 “Theoretical Dangers: The FBI Investigations of Science & SocietyScience and Society 68(4):475-482.

2003 “Anthropology Sub Rosa: The AAA, the CIA and the Ethical Problems Inherent in Secret Research." In Ethics and the Profession of Anthropology: Dialogue for Ethically Conscious Practice, Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban ed. 29-49. Second Edition. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.

2003 [co-authored with William J. Peace] "Un-American Anthropological Thought: The Opler-Meggers Exchange." Journal of Anthropological Research 59(2):183-203.

2003 “Outcome-Based Tyranny: Teaching Compliance While Testing Like A State.“ Anthropological Quarterly 76 (4): 715-730.

2003 "Subtle Means and Enticing Carrots: The Impact of Funding on American Cold War Anthropology." Critique of Anthropology 23(4):373-401.

2002 “Present Dangers, Past Wars and Past Anthropologies.” Anthropology Today 18(1):3-5.

2002 “Lessons From Second World War Anthropology: Peripheral, Persuasive and Ignored Contributions.” Anthropology Today 18(3):14-20.

2002 “Interlopers and Invited Guests: On Anthropology’s Witting and Unwitting Links to Intelligence Agencies.” Anthropology Today 18(6): 16-21.

2001 “Spying on Radical Scholars.” Radical History Review 79 (winter 2001):169-172.

2001 [co-authored with William J. Peace] “The Cold War Context of the FBI’s Investigation of Leslie A. White.” American Anthropologist 103(1):164-167.

1998 “Cold War Anthropology: Collaborators and Victims of the National Security State.” Identities 4(3-4): 389-430.

1998 “Gregory Bateson and the OSS.” Human Organization 57(4): 379-384.

1997 “Anthropological Research and the Freedom of Information Act.” Cultural Anthropology Methods 9(1): 12-15.

1995 “The Cultural Effects of Conveyance Loss in Gravity-Fed Irrigation Systems.” Ethnology 34(4): 273-291.

1995 "Water Theft in Egypt’s Fayoum Oasis: Emics, Etics, and the Illegal" in Martin F. Murphy & Maxine L. Margolis eds., pp 96-110, Science, Materialism and the Study of Culture. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida.

1994 “Wittfogel’s Neglected Hydraulic/Hydroagricultural Distinction.” Journal of Anthropological Research 50(2):187-204.

Non-Refereed Chapters, Articles, Essays, and Reports

2025 “The Latest JFK Documents Release: A Quick Guide to the Perplexed.” CounterPunch March 26, 2025.

2025 “What We [Don’t] Talk About When We Talk About USAID.” CounterPunch+ February 16, 2025.

2024 "An Ugly Smudge on an Exceptional Bike Race: When Bosses Attack a Worker in the Vuelta a Espana" CounterPunch September 19,2023.

2023 “Kurt Vonnegut Warned Us About the Dangers of Automation.” The Progressive 6/21/23.

2023 “America’s Surveillance State: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once.” The Progressive 87 (2): 8-9.

2023 [co-authored with Roberto González] “Towards an Anthropology of Surveillance.” CounterPunch January 6, 2023. https://

2022 “The Great COIN Con: Anthropologists’ Lessons Learned After Two Decades of America’s Failed Counterinsurgency Operations in Afghanistan.” CounterPunch November 18, 2022.

2021 “Anthropologist Laura Nader on the Lost Art of the Letter.” CounterPunch May 24, 2021.

2021 “A Great Tree Has Fallen: The Passing of Marshall Sahlins.” CounterPunch April 8, 2021.

2020 “CIA Book Publishing Operations: Fragments of Sol Chaneles’ Lost Manuscript.”CounterPunch September 13, 2020.

2020 with Roberto González. “Ritualizing Dissent: Critical Voices as Normalized Bureaucratic Processes in Military and Intelligence Agencies.” Discover Society April 1, 2020.

2020 “Fifty Two Pick-Up: Trump’s Deranged Threats to Bomb the Past.” CounterPunch January 7, 2020. https://

2019 “Revealing State Secrets through FOIA Research.” Middle East Reports 291: 52-53.

2019 “Militarized Observers: Institutional Daydreams of Ethics End Runs to Weaponize Culture.” CounterPunch August 9, 2019.

2019 “David W. Conde: Lost CIA Critic and Cold War Seer.” CounterPunch 26 (1):21-26.

2019 “Author’s Response, to Roundtable Review.” H-Diplo. Roundtable Review, 20(25), Feb. 18, 2019.

2019 “The Sounds of Anthropological Silence.” Public Anthropologist 1(1):105-112.

2018 “Militarizing Space: Starship Troopers, Same as it Ever Was.” CounterPunch August 10, 2018. https://

2017 “Medium Cool: Decades of the FBI’s Surveillance of Haskell Wexler.” CounterPunch Magazine Volume 24, Number 3, May 2017, p 27-30.

2017 “Rogue Elephant Rising: The CIA as Kingslayer.” CounterPunch February 17, 2017.

2017 “Tyrannic Man’s Dominion: Trump Era Physical Sciences Approaching Social Sciences’ Marginal Status.” CounterPunch February 10, 2017.

2016 “Historical & Structural Reasons for Skepticism of CIA Claims: Remaining Agnostic on Claims of Russian Hackers.” CounterPunch December 12, 2016.

2016 “Dual Use Anthropology and the Politics of History, Book Symposium Comments, on Cold War Anthropology Discussion.” Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 6(2): 467-472.

2016 “The 2016 Tour of California: Notes on a Big Pharma Bike Race.”CounterPunch May 27, 2016.

2016 [co-authored with Roberto González] “Anthropologists Marshalling History: the American Anthropological Association’s Vote on the Academic Boycott of Israeli Institutions.” CounterPunch April 29, 2016.

2016 “Portrait of the Radical as a Young Man: The FBI’s Pursuit of Saul Landau.” CounterPunch January 2016, 22 (10):11-15.

2015 “Agents of Apartheid: Ruth First and the FBI’s Historical Role of Enforcing Inequality.” CounterPunch December 2015, 22(9): 10-14.

2015 [co-authored with Roberto González] “The Use and Abuse of Culture (and Children): The Human Terrain System’s Rationalization of Pedophilia in Afghanistan.” CounterPunch October 9, 2015. http://

2015 [co-authored with Roberto González] “Remaking the Human Terrain: The US Military’s Continuing Quest to Commandeer Culture.” CounterPunch July 31, 2015.

2015 “The Passing of Bix: A Silenced Voice of Resistance, Compassion and Peace.” CounterPunch March 3, 2015.

2015 “Field Notes from Olympia: What if Lawmakers Were More Like the People They Serve?” Crosscut February 27, 2015.

2015 “Field Notes from Olympia: Legislating Virtual Worlds.” Crosscut February 23, 2015.

2015 “Field Notes from Olympia: The Power of Language and the ‘Fear Grimace.’” Crosscut February 13, 2015.

2015 “Field Notes from Olympia: An Anthropologist in the State Capital.” Crosscut February 12, 2015.

2014 “The New Surveillance Normal: NSA and Corporate Surveillance in the Age of Global Capitalism.” Monthly Review July-August 2014, 66(3):43-53.

2014 “Three Pawns in the ‘Great Game’: The Early CIA in the Middle East.” Middle East Report MER 271, Summer 2014, 43-46.

2014 “Remembering Gerald Berreman: One Who Raged Against the Machine.” CounterPunch February 19, 2014.

2014 “The NSA, CIA, and the Promise of Industrial Espionage.” CounterPunch January 28, 2014.

2014 “Contextualizing Laura Nader” Introduction to Laura Nader: A Life of Teaching, Investigation, Scholarship and Scope. pp ix-xi. Bancroft Oral History Office, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, California.

2014 “How the Media Gets it Wrong: On Asking the Wrong Questions and Mapping Media Dead Zones.” CounterPunch September 18, 2014. h

2014 “The Bio-Social Facts of American Capitalism.” CounterPunch 21(8):9-11. September 2014.

2014 “New Leaked WikiLeaks CIA Document: How the CIA Sold Obama on Counterinsurgency by Drone Assassination.” CounterPunch December 23, 2014.

2013 “Inside Cockburn’s FBI File: Snoops, Snitches and Secrets.” CounterPunch 20(1):9-12. January 2013.

2013 “The Destruction of Conscience in the National Academy of Science: An Interview with Marshall Sahlins.” CounterPunch February 26, 2013.

2013 “Memory’s Half-Life: A Social History of Wiretaps.” CounterPunch 20(6):10-14.

2013 “Karl August Wittfogel.” In Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Volume Two, pp 382-385935-937, Jon R. McGee & Richard L. Warms eds., Walnut Creek, CA: Sage.

2013 “Marvin Harris.” In Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Volume One, pp 382-385, Jon R. McGee & Richard L. Warms eds., Walnut Creek, CA: Sage.

2013 “On Claims of a Baby Rogue Elephant: The Revelations of Kidnapped CIA Agent Robert Levinson” CounterPunch December 13-15, 2013.

2012 "Resistance's Half-Life: Militarization and the Growing Academic Silence." CounterPunch Vol. 19, No. 11. June 1-15, 2012, p 1, 5-7.

2012 "The Irreverent Sting of Alexander Cockburn: A Voice of Critical Optimism." CounterPunch July 23, 2012.

2011 “Challenging America’s Pharaoh: A Revolutionary Movement and the Future of Egyptian (In)dependence.” CounterPunch February 2, 2011.

2011 “Patience, Nerve, Strength, and Strategy: 94 Seconds in the Tour de France.” CounterPunch July 23, 2001.

2011 “Mark Zborowski in a World of Pain: Part One, The Spy-Scholar.” CounterPunch 18(12):1, 5-8. June 16-30, 2011.

2011 “Mark Zborowski in a World of Pain: Park Two, Trial by FBI.” CounterPunch 18(13):1, 4-7. July 1-31, 2011.

2011 “Case Western Breakdown: How Critical Engagements with Military Scholars Can Threaten Academic Transparency.” CounterPunch November 14, 2011.

2010 “Silent Coup: How the CIA is Welcoming Itself Back onto American University Campuses.” CounterPunch 17(2):1-5. Jan. 16-31, 2010.

2010 “The Spook School Program.” CounterPunch 17(3):6-7. February 1-15, 2010.

2010 “Human Terrain Systems Dissenter Resigns, Tells Inside Story of Training’s Heart of Darkness.” CounterPunch February 15, 2010,

2010 “Disrespecting Yellow in the Tour de France.CounterPunch July 20, 2010.

2009 “Counterinsurgency, Anthropology and Disciplinary Complicity: An Interview With Roberto González on Human Terrain Systems.” CounterPunch February 3, 2009.

2009 “Counterinsurgency’s Free Ride: The Press and Human Terrain Systems.” CounterPunch April 7, 2009.

2009 “Son of PRISP: Obama’s Classroom Spies” CounterPunch June 23, 2009.

2009 “Seymour Melman and the FBI’s Monitoring of the Demilitarization Movement.” CounterPunch June 1-15, 2009, pp 1-4

2009 [co-authored with Roberto González & Hugh Gusterson] Introduction: War, Culture and Counterinsurgency.” The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual or, Notes on Demilitarizing American Society. Pp 1-20. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press.

2009 “Faking Scholarship.” In the Network of Concerned Anthropologists Steering Committee, eds., The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual or, Notes on Demilitarizing American Society. Pp 59-76. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press.

2009 “Trial by FBI Investigation: Janice Harper, the Nuclear Option, Silence and New Threats to Academic Freedom.” CounterPunch August 10, 2009.

2009 “Anthropology, Human Terrain’s Prehistory, and the Role of Culture in Wars Waged by Robots.” CounterPunch October 1-15; 16(17):1, 4-6.

2009 [Robert Albro (chair), James Peacock, Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Kerry Fosher, Laura McNamara, George Marcus, Laurie Rush, Jean Jackson, Monica Schoch-Spana and Setha Low] “AAA Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities (CEAUSSIC). Final Report on The Army’s Human Terrain System Proof of Concept Program.” Submitted to the American Anthropological Association Executive Board, October 2009.

2009 “Going Native: Hollywood’s Human Terrain Avatars” CounterPunch December 23, 2009.

2008 “The Military ‘Leveraging’ of Cultural Knowledge: The Newly Available 2004 Stryker Report Evaluating Iraqi Failures.” CounterPunch March 18, 2008.

2008 “Blind Whistling Phreaks and the FBI’s Historical Reliance on Phone Company Criminality.” CounterPunch 15(6): 1-3. March 16-31.

2008 [co-authored with Agustin Fuentes] “Minority Commentary on the Turner Resolution of the 2007 AAA Business Meeting.” Report of the American Anthropological Association’s Ad Hoc Committee on Ethics, submitted to the American Anthropological Association’s Executive Board, June 16, 2008.

2008 “Social Science in Harness: Inside the Minerva Consortium.” CounterPunch June 25, 2008.

2008 “Payback Time: The Student Who Decided to Not Be a Spook.” CounterPunch 15(15):6- 8. 9/1-15/08.

2008 "The Leaky Ship of Human Terrain Systems: First Read of a Leaked Handbook." CounterPunch December 12, 2008.

2007 “The Long Lost War: This Occupation Shall Remain Nameless.” CounterPunch April 25, 2007

2007 [co-authored with Hugh Gusterson] “Reconsidering Why Dr. Johnny Won’t Go To War.” Small Wars Vol. 8, May 2007, pp 35-37.

2007 “André Gunder Frank, the FBI, and the Bureaucratic Exile of a Critical Mind.” CounterPunch 14 (12):1-4. June 16-30, 2007.

2007 “Tour de Witch Hunt: Drugs, Diaries and Purges.” CounterPunch July 26, 2007.

2007 [co-authored with Roberto J. González] “When Anthropologists Become Counter-Insurgents: Pledging to Boycott the ‘War on Terror.’” CounterPunch September 28, 2007.

2007 “Pilfered Scholarship Devastates General Petraeus’ Counterinsurgency Manual.” CounterPunch Vol 14, No. 18. Oct. 16-31, pp 1-6.

2007 “Refuting Col. John Nagl: Army’s Prime Salesman of Counterinsurgency Manual Seeks to Defend Stolen Scholarship.” CounterPunch Nov. 3 & 4, 2007.

2007 [co-authored with, James Peacock (Chair), Robert Albro, Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Kerry Fosher, Laura McNamara, Monica Heller, George Marcus, and Alan Goodman] “AAA Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities, Final Report.” Submitted to the American Anthropological Association Executive Board, November 2007.

2006 “Reply to Neil Sebag-Montefiori.” Anthropology Today 22(1):21.

2006 “Shouting Down Nazis in Olympia.” CounterPunch July 5, 2006.

2006 “American Anthropologists Stand Up Against Torture and the Occupation of Iraq.CounterPunch November 20, 2006.

2005 “The CIA’s University Spies.” CounterPunch Volume 12, No. 1. January 1-15. pp 1-6.

2005 “From PRISP to ICSP: Skullduggery among the Acronyms.” CounterPunch Vol. 12, No. 5. March 1-15. pp 3-4.

2005 “The Shallowness of Deep Throat: Selective Leaks from Corruption Central.” CounterPunch June 2, 2005.

2005 “How U.S. Anthropologists Planned ‘Race-Specific’ Weapons against the Japanese.” CounterPunch June 1-15, 2005, 12(11):1-3.

2005 “Workers Get Hit Twice: Hurricane Katrina and Davis-Bacon Profiteering.” CounterPunch September 23, 2005.

2005 “How the FBI Spied on Edward Said.” CounterPunch December 1-15, 12(21):1,4-5.

2004 “On Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.The Chronicle of Higher Education June 4, 2004: B15.

2004 “Put Reagan’s Image on the Black Budget: Spend One for the Gipper.” CounterPunch June 10, 2004.

2004 “Fahrenheit 9-11 through the McCain-Feingold Looking Glass” CounterPunch June 30, 2004.

2004 “Flying in the Face of Current Practices: Anthropologists as Activists” Insights June 2004, 6.

2004 “’Like Slaves’: Anthropological Notes on Occupation.” CounterPunch January 6, 2004.

2004 “In the Shadow of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Cultural Conditions of Unconditional Surrender.” CounterPunch August 6, 2004.

2004 “Relying on Phonies: What if the Problem with Phone Polls is that they are Phone Polls?” CounterPunch September 20, 2004.

2004 “Social Security Pump and Dump: Driving by FDR’s ‘Peaks and Valleys’ of Capitalism.” CounterPunch December 23, 2004.

2003 "Prostrate Before the Patriot Act: Librarians as FBI Extension Agents." CounterPunch March 5, 2003.

2003 “The Spies Who Came in from the Dig,” republished excerpt from “Cloak and Trowel” The Guardian September 4, 2003.

2003 “Cloak and Trowel: Should Archaeologists Double As Spies?“ Archaeology September/October 2003, pp. 30-35.

2003 “Teaching Suspicions: The Unintended Consequences of Police Investigations of Parent Volunteers.” CounterPunch September 26, 2003.

2003 “Reply to Lloyd Pierson.” Archaeology November/December 2003. pp 9.

2002 “Reply to Noam Chomsky and Jeffrey Sluka.” Anthropology Today 18(2):23.

2002 “Reply to Jan van Bremen, Igor Kpytoff and Margaret Hardiman.” Anthropology Today 18(4):22.

2002 "Cops As Robbers." CounterPunch October 1-15, 2002:4.

2001 “Price Replies to Peace, Carrier & Frank.” The Nation 2/12/01: 23.

2001 “Comments on Herbert Lewis’ ”Boas, Darwin, Science and Anthropology.” Current Anthropology 42(3):398-399.

2001 “Academia Under Attack: Sketches For A New Blacklist.” CounterPunch Nov. 21, 2001.

2001 “War Without End: Terror and Indigenous People.CounterPunch Nov. 3 2001:1-3.

2000 “Anthropologists as Spies.” The Nation Vol. 271, Number 16, 24-27, November 20, 2000.

1988 "Reply to Romney, Weller and Batchelder." American Anthropologist 90(1):159-161.

Translations of Publications (Farsi, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish & Turkish)

2022 مردم شناسی در روزگار جنگ سرد؛ سیا، پنتاگون و رشد استفادة دوگانه (نظامی‌مدنی) از مردم‌شناسی . Bootleg translation into Farsi of Cold War Anthropology: The CIA, the Pentagon,and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology. 808 page translation. [Tehran]

2021 Translation into Japanese of “On the Development and Scope of John Embree’s Early Cold War Critiques.” History and Folklore: Institute for the Study of Japanese Folk Culture Publication Volume 37, March 2021, 187-209.

2019 Translation into Turkish of “Counter-lineages within the history of anthropology: on disciplinary ancestors’ activism” (2019). “Antropoloji tarihindeki karşı-soy çizgileri: geçmiş antropologların eylemciliği üzerine.” March 16, 2019, eylemci antropoloji

2016 Translation into French of “Uninvited Guests; A Short History of the CIA on Campus.” (2011). “Des invités indésirables : une brève histoire de la CIA sur les campus.” Triangle June 26, 2016.

2014 Translation into Norwegian of “Going Native: Hollywood’s Human Terrain Avatars,” (Orig. 2009). “Det amerikanske militærets erobring av kulturen.” Radikal Portal May 19, 2014.

2013 Translation into Spanish of “The Destruction of Conscience in the National Academy of Science: An Interview with Marshall Sahlins,” (orig. 2013). “La destrucción de la conciencia en la Academia Nacional de las Ciencias de EE UU. Entrevista.” Sin Permiso (24/3/13).

2013 Translation into French of, “A Social History of Wiretaps,” (orig.2013). “Quand le peuple américain refusait qu’on espionne Al Capone: Avec l’affaire Snoden, les Estats-Unis accentuent leur derive sécuritaire.” Le Monde diplomatique August 2013, pp 10-11.

2013 Translation into German of, “A Social History of Wiretaps,” (orig.2013). “Absolut unamerikanisch: Die schleichende Enteignung der Privatsphäre in den USA von“ Le Monde diplomatique (Deutsche Ausgabe) August 2013, pp 10-11.

2013 “L’anthropologue comme espion.” French translation, and republication of "Anthropologists as Spies," (Orig. 2000). Pp 533-544, in La question morale, une anthologie critique, eds. Didier Fassin & Samuel Lézé. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.

2010 Translation into French of “Gregory Bateson and the OSS” (orig. 1988), “Gregory Bateson et l’OSS: la Seconde Guerre mondiale et le jugement que portait Bateson sur l’anthropologie appliqué.Horizons et débats N 35: 3-5. 13 septembre 2010.

2010 Translation into German of “Gregory Bateson and the OSS,” (orig. 1988), “Gregory Bateson und das OSS: Der Zweite Weltkrieg und Batesons Beurteilung der angewandten Anthropologie” Zeit-Zragen Nr 35 vom 30.8.2010

2009 Translation into Spanish of “Anthropologists as Spies” (orig. 2000), “La denuncia de Franz Boas." Opera Mundi June 10, 2009. Translated by, José Luis Duran King.

2007 Translation into Spanish of “Pilfered Scholarship Devastates General Petraeus’ Counterinsurgency Manual” (orig. 2007), Prostitución de la antropología al servicio de las guerras del Imperio. Rebelión 2007.

2005 Translation into Spanish of “How U.S. Anthropologists Planned ‘Race-Specific” Weapons Against the Japanese.” into Spanish (orig. 2005) Antropólogos de EE.UU. planearon armas ‘específicas a la raza’ contra los japoneses. Rebelión 2005.

2005 Translation into Italian of “How U.S. Anthropologists Planned ‘Race-Specific” Weapons Against the Japanese,” into Italian (orig. 2005), “Armi razziali degli USA contro I giapponesi” Come Don Chisciotte 2005.

2005 Translation into Spanish of “The University Spies” into Spanish (orig. 2005), “Los espías de la CIA en Los campus universitarios,” Rebelión www.rebelion.org

2004 Translation into Italian of “In the Shadow of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” (orig. 2004) “All'ombra di Hiroshima e Nagasaki: le condizioni culturali di una resa senza condizioni” Peacelink

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Threatening Anthropology

Examines McCarthyism's effects.

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Cold War Anthropology

Studies military-intelligence interactions.