Donna Yates (professor)

Yates holds a Bachelor's degree in Archaeology from Boston University, and an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Archaeology from the University of Cambridge.{{Cite web|title=Donna Yates « Trafficking Culture|url=https://traffickingculture.org/people/dr-donna-yates/,%20https://traffickingculture.org/people/dr-donna-yates/|access-date=2020-06-07|language=en-US}} Her MPhil thesis documented the sale of looted South American antiquities in auctions in the United States,{{Cite web|title=Yates, D. (2006), 'South America on the Block: The changing face of Pre-Columbian antiquities auctions in response to international law', MPhil Dissertation, University of Cambridge. « Trafficking Culture|url=https://traffickingculture.org/publications/yates-d-2006-south-america-on-the-block-the-changing-face-of-pre-columbian-antiquities-auctions-in-response-to-international-law-mphil-dissertation-university-of-cambridge/,%20https://traffickingculture.org/publications/yates-d-2006-south-america-on-the-block-the-changing-face-of-pre-columbian-antiquities-auctions-in-response-to-international-law-mphil-dissertation-university-of-cambridge/|access-date=2020-06-07|language=en-US}} and her dissertation covered the sociology of archaeology and heritage in Bolivia.

Her interest in illicit antiquities began in 2003, when she saw a Maya civilization archeological site that had been looted. She has been quoted in numerous reports on Cultural heritage issues, including in the New York Times,{{Cite news|last=Qin|first=Amy|date=2017-07-15|title=Tomb Robbing, Perilous but Alluring, Makes Comeback in China|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/15/world/asia/china-tomb-robbing-qin-dynasty.html|access-date=2020-06-07|issn=0362-4331}} Washington Post,{{Cite news|last1=Zauzmer|first1=Julie|last2=Bailey|first2=Sarah Pulliam|title=Hobby Lobby's $3 million smuggling case casts a cloud over the Museum of the Bible|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/07/06/hobby-lobbys-3-million-smuggling-case-casts-a-cloud-over-the-museum-of-the-bible/|access-date=2020-06-07|newspaper=Washington Post|language=en}} and The Economist.{{Cite news|title=Returning the hatchet|newspaper=The Economist|url=https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2016/03/10/returning-the-hatchet|access-date=2020-06-07|issn=0013-0613}} After earning her doctoral degree, Yates joined the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research at the University of Glasgow.

From 2012 to 2015, Yates held a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship and a Core Fulbright Award to study the trafficking of Latin American antiquities. Her grant project used fieldwork in Bolivia, Belize, and Mexico to analyze relationships between communities, governments, the law, and transnational criminal organizations to study the effectiveness of regulatory mechanisms for controlling the illicit antiquities trade.

In 2018, Yates was awarded a 5 year, €1.5 million European Research Council grant to study “criminogenic collectables”: objects that seem inspire criminal behavior by those collecting them, specifically, cultural objects, fossils, and collectable rare wildlife.{{Cite web|title=Donna Yates receives major ERC grant|url=https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/news/peopleprojects/headline_604867_en.html|access-date=2020-06-07|website=www.gla.ac.uk|language=en}} She moved to Maastricht University where she was made Associate Professor of Archaeology.

Her more recent book, with Cara Tremain, is an edited collection of essays:The Market for Mesoamerica: Reflections on the Sale of Pre-Columbian Antiquities. Gainesville: University Press of Florida (2019).{{Cite web|title=The Market for Mesoamerica|url=http://upf.com/book.asp?id=9780813056449|access-date=2020-06-07|website=University Press of Florida: The Market for Mesoamerica|language=en-US}}

Yates has created a number of digital projects related to the illicit traffic in cultural goods:

• Trafficking Culture: "a research consortium that produces evidence-based research into the contemporary global trade in looted cultural objects."{{Cite web|title=Trafficking Culture|url=https://traffickingculture.org/,%20https://traffickingculture.org/|access-date=2020-06-07|language=en-US}}
• Property of an Anonymous Swiss Collector: a blog about "antiquities theft, art crime, and the complexities of cultural objects."{{Cite web|title=Anonymous Swiss Collector|url=https://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/|access-date=2020-06-07|language=en-US}}
• Culture Crime News: "a growing database of antiquities and art crime articles from the popular press."{{Cite web|title=News — Culture Crime News|url=https://news.culturecrime.org/|access-date=2020-06-07|website=news.culturecrime.org}}
• Stolen Gods: a blog reporting on "the theft and destruction of sacred art from around the world."{{Cite web|title=Stolen, sold, and destroyed — Stolen Gods|url=https://stolengods.org/|access-date=2020-06-07|website=stolengods.org}}

• {{Cite web|last=Yates|first=Donna|author-mask=0|title=The Market for Mesoamerica|url=http://upf.com/book.asp?id=9780813056449|access-date=2020-07-10|website=University Press of Florida: The Market for Mesoamerica|language=en-US}}
• {{Cite journal|author-mask=0|last=Yates|first=Donna|date=2017-06-19|title="Community Justice," Ancestral Rights, and Lynching in Rural Bolivia|url=https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/140741/1/140741.pdf|journal=Race and Justice|volume=10|pages=3–19|language=en|doi=10.1177/2153368717713824|s2cid=148869781}}
• {{Cite web|author-mask=0|last=Yates|first=Donna|date=2016-12-22|title=The Global Traffic in Looted Cultural Objects|url=https://oxfordre.com/criminology/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264079.001.0001/acrefore-9780190264079-e-124|access-date=2020-07-10|website=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice|language=en|doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780190264079.013.124|isbn=9780190264079}}
• {{Cite book|last=Yates|first=Donna|title=Countering illicit traffic in cultural goods : the global challenge of protecting the world's heritage|editor=Desmarais, France |year=2015|isbn=978-92-9012-415-3|location=Paris|oclc=953582173 |publisher=ICOM}}
• {{Cite journal|author-mask=0|last=Yates|first=Donna|date=2015-01-01|title=Museums, collectors, and value manipulation: tax fraud through donation of antiquities|journal=Journal of Financial Crime|volume=23|issue=1|pages=173–186|doi=10.1108/JFC-11-2014-0051|issn=1359-0790|url=http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/108812/7/108812.pdf}}

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