Ie specializes in modern European intellectual and cultural history, cultural property, imperialism, colonialism and post co !011 i a! ism, his tory of anthropology, race and racism, and primiti\ i Sill and modernism. Professor Barkan has recently coedited a volume for the Getty Research institute: Claiming the Stones, Naming the Bones: Cultural Property and the Negotiation of National and Ethnic Identity, with Ronald Bush. He is also the author of The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and

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... ng F Iistorical Injustices, which addresses a topic on which he also organized a 1998 conference at Oxford University, and a recent international conference in Claremont. He is the author of Retreat of Scientific Racism and the coeditor, with Marie-Denise Shelton (Claremont McKenna College), of Borders, Exiles, and Diaspora, and with Ronald Bush, Prehistories o( the Future: Primitivism, Modernism and Politics. J . D. B 1 N DEN AcE L was appointed Special Envov for I Iolocaust Issues \\ i th the rank of ambassador. Ambassador Bindenagel negotiated a $5 bill ion settlement with Germany for former '-"'orld \Var II slaves and forced laborers as part of the United States Government negotiating team. In a vear and a half of intensive negotiations, he won the tn 1st of all parties and skillfullv positioned himself to identify the compromises and tactics needed to keep the discourse civil and productive in reaching agreement. In addition, he crisscrossed Europe and the United States tirelessly, promoting the International Commission on Holocaust F.ra Insurance Claims, which resulted in a $3oo million dollar settlement to pay insurance claims of the heirs of Holocaust victims. He was awarded the State Department Distinguished Honor Award, and the Commanders Cross of the Order of J\1crit of the Federal Republic of Germanv.