Nate Acebo is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology  and Indigenous and Native American Studies (NAIS) at the University of Connecticut. He practices community based participatory research through Indigenous Archaeology and his work explores how past and present Indigenous knowledges and practices enable resistance, communal autonomy and affective potentiality in the pre- and post-colonial contexts of  North America (Alta California and New England) and the Pacific (Hawaiʻi). Dr. Acebo explores these subjects through field and museum-based collection analysis using different methodologies in the material sciences and digital humanities through a critical Indigenous studies lenses. Dr. Acebo’s research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Mellon Foundation, the National Science Foundation, Society for California Archaeology, and various research institutes at University of Connecticut, Tufts University, the University of California system, and Stanford University. ​

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