His research foci are the archaeology of the Near East and Eurasia, ancient trade, archaeological method and theory, archaeological ethics, and cultural heritage law and policy. He is currently the Associate Director of the Sinop Regional Archaeological Project (SRAP), in Turkey, where he has been working since 1997. His books include Social Archaeologies of Trade and Exchange (Left Coast Press, 2010), co-edited with Anna Agbe-Davies, and New Directions in Museum Ethics (Routledge 2012), co-edited with Janet Marstine and Chelsea Haines. He has also served as the Editor in chief of the interdisciplinary International Journal of Cultural Property since 2005.