Daniel Schniedewind is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on the politics of race, indigeneity, and nature in North America. Prior to arriving at Wesleyan, Daniel was a postdoctoral fellow in Native American and Indigenous studies at the Center for the Futures of Native Peoples at Dickinson College. Drawing on environmental anthropology, Black studies, and Indigenous studies, Daniel is currently completing a book project tentatively titled Complicit Ecologies: Landscape as Violence in Hudson's Valley. The book explores how contemporary landscape practices in the Hudson Valley of New York state both sustain and interrupt deep regional currents of settler colonialism and antiblackness. This year, Daniel will teach courses including "Indigenous Environmental Justice," "Multispecies Ethnography," and "Race, Colonialism, and the Nonhuman."