‘Thanks to the award from CLACLS, I’ll be able to travel to Colombia in June 2018 to complete my field research. I am studying the return of cultural heritage objects to their “country of origin”, and more specifically the reasons why Latin American countries such as Mexico, Peru and Colombia engage in legal and ethical battles with museums in Europe and North America to recover these objects. During my stay in Colombia, I will interview stakeholders in some of the most salient cases recently involving Colombia. I will also look for newspaper articles and archival materials in public libraries and the available archives. I will split my time between Bogota and the city of Armenia, in the Quindío province.”