Jon Daehnke joins UCSC as a Visiting Assistant Professor in American Studies. Jon is a graduate of the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Stanford University before coming to UCSC. His research interests focus on cultural heritage and the law, Native American studies, public representations of heritage and memory, the relationship between anthropologists and Indigenous communities, critical approaches to nature, culture and the environment, and the archaeology of landscapes. He has conducted research throughout the western United States with a primary emphasis on the heritage landscape of the Pacific northwest of North America. He has published an article on heritage stewardship and the complexities of federal recognition of American Indian nations in the Journal of Social Archaeology, and has a forthcoming article in Wicazo Sa Reviewthat explores the tensions surrounding the use, identity, and value of a site of public history that has connections to both Indigenous communities and Lewis and Clark. Jon also has publications on NAGPRA compliance, and human response to catastrophic changes in landscape. He is currently working on a manuscript that documents and explores the dynamic and contested nature of Indigenous identity, federal recognition, and tangible and intangible heritage on the Columbia River.