He specializes in First Nations art, material culture, media, and performance on the Northwest Coast, as well as the history of anthropology and museums. Glass recently worked with the U’mista Cultural Centre to document the large Kwakwaka’wakw collection at the Ethnological Museum Berlin in an innovative digital database, and to restore and present Edward Curtis’s 1914 silent feature film, “In the Land of the Head Hunters.” His books include The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History (with Aldona Jonaitis, 2010); Objects of Exchange: Social and Material Transformation on the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast (the catalogue for an exhibition he curated at the Bard Graduate Center in 2011); and Return to the Land of the Head Hunters: Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka’wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema (with Brad Evans, 2014).