Rothfield Talks About New Publication and Iraqi Cultural Heritage

Lawrence Rothfield, an Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago and author of The Punching Bag blog, recently sat down with The New Yorker to discuss his new book, The Rape of Mesopotamia: Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum.

Rothfield is a highly respected scholar on cultural policy, cultural property law, and the ongoing ‘rape’ of antiquities, archaeology, and cultural heritage in Iraq. His research and publications always offer excellent insight on core cases such as the looting of the Iraq Museum in addition to the means and degree of influence issues in the fields of national security, cultural policy, and economics (to name a few) hold over them. I am looking forward to reading his book. In the meantime, the great preview from The New Yorker can be read here.