Donna Yates

Donna Yates is a Lecturer in Social Sciences and Arts at the University of Glasgow. An archaeologist by training, Yates is based in a criminology department and is one of the founding members of the Trafficking Culture Project at the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research. Her research broadly focuses on social aspects of antiquities trafficking, art crime, and related cultural property issues. Yates has recently held a Leverhulme Fellowship and a Core Fulbright Award to study the on-the-ground effects of high-level cultural policy in Latin America and her current work involves security for, and protection of, sacred art in Latin America and South Asia. Her research and other open research materials can be found on her ever-growing collection of websites, including traffickingculture.org, anonymousswisscollector.com, and stolengods.org