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Joe Edward Watkins
Joe Edward Watkins is one of the few Native Americans who hold a Ph.D. in archaeology. He is known for connecting indigenous communities with academic communities as well as dabbling in experimental archaeology which is the practice of using replicated tools to discover how people in the past went about in their lives. He is also concerned with the ethics of anthropology as well as maintaining a steady relationship between Native Americans and their culture. -
Shannon Lee Dawdy
Dr. Dawdy is using research to study how landscapes and material objects mediate human relationships and how cultural experiences can affect how we view time. She uses stories of people who resisted governance, providing a more inclusive narrative of the colonial dynamics and structure of the region (US Southeast). -
Jason Nez
Jason Nez is a Diné (Navajo) archaeologist and wildland firefighter who works in the U.S. southwest, particularly in the Grand Canyon. His work as a “fire archaeologist” involves going ahead of firefighters to make sure culture sites are not destroyed in the process of containing wildfires. This work is crucial to educating the public about the Diné connection to the Grand Canyon and showing others that Native peoples never left. -
Jason De Leon
Jason de Leon studies the clandestine migrational movement of peoples across the Mexican borders into both the US and Guatemala. He is also an author, known for “The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail”. De Leon advocates for human rights and is the Director of the Undocumented Migration Project. He is also a professor of Anthropology and Chicano studies at UCLA. -
Dr. Devina Ruth Two Bears
Dr. Two Bears worked for the Navajo Nation Archaeology Department for 14 years before earning her PhD in Anthropology with a concentration in Archaeology and a PhD minor in Indigenous Studies. Her dissertation was on the Old Leupp Boarding School (1909-1942) and the Navajo's response to federal colonization of indigenous land. -
Blair Rose Zaid
Dr.Zaid has conducted archaeological research throughout the U.S., African, and the Caribbean working on studying the way free African descendants' lives worked and sought leisure throughout the 19th and 20th centuries in the Midwest. Furthermore, Dr.Zaid focuses on how multi-generational frontiers play a role in diasporal formation.
