Jon Daehnke

Jon Daehnke is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the Faculty Director of the Monterey Bay Archaeology Archive. His research and teaching interests focus on critical heritage studies, collaborative research, cultural resource policy and law, NAGPRA and repatriation, and the archaeology and history of the Pacific Northwest Coast. He is the author of Chinook Resilience: Heritage and Cultural Revitalization on the Lower Columbia River (University of Washington Press, 2017), and co-editor (with Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels) of Heritage and Democracy: Crisis, Critique, and Collaboration (University Press of Florida, 2023).