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Jason Nez
Jason Nez is a Diné (Navajo) archaeologist who works in the U.S. southwest, particularly in the Grand Canyon. He works for the national park service as both a firefighter and an archaeologist. His work ensures that culture sites are not destroyed in the process of containing wildfires. His work also results in the documentation of new Diné archaeological sites. This work is crucial to educating the public about the Diné connection to the Grand Canyon and showing that Native peoples never left. -
Shannon Lee Dawdy
Dawdy’s examines the history of the Atlantic world since 1450. She has written on New Orleans, covering its peculiar French colonial past and the city's relationship to old things, before and after Katrina. Her research focuses on death, disaster, sensuality, and histories of colonialism and capitalism. She integrates the intellectual life of communities with the stories of people who resisted governance, providing a more inclusive narrative of the colonial dynamics and structure of the region. -
Heather Law Pezzarossi
She collaborates with Indigenous communities in the US, focusing on community-led heritage and archaeological projects that address the colonial past through methods and theories that serve Indigenous communities in the present and future. She works with the Nipmuc community, critiquing the colonial heritage landscape in southern New England and unpacking the cumulative impacts the messaging on roadside signage, monuments and historical places have on settler understandings of Nipmuc people. -
Justin Dunnavant
His current research in the US Virgin Islands investigates the relationship between ecology and enslavement in the former Danish West Indies. He directs ongoing excavations at the Estate Little Princess which focus on the lives of enslaved Africans who lived and labored on the eighteenth-century sugar plantation. This project provides field training for students from the Caribbean Center for Boys and Girls and from Historically Black Colleges and Universities. -
Guillermo Ramón Celis
He collaborates with communal landowners of the Guiengola archaeological site to develop research method to protect cultural heritage. They are creating a map of the site using remote sensing to understand its extension and accurately identify archaeological contexts while respecting local culture. As a member of UNESCO's International Council of Monuments and Sites, he develops strategies to promote Mexican archaeological heritage research, protection, and conservation among the public.