Caleb Kestle
Visiting Research Assistant Professor
Anthropology
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Caleb N. Kestle is a Visiting Research Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).
He received his PhD in Anthropology with a focus in Archaeology in 2021. In his current
position, Kestle serves as a researcher for UIC-DPAA projects and has served as a Scientific
Recovery Expert (SRE) on numerous UIC-DPAA recovery projects since 2018. His academic work
focuses on communal resistance to authoritarian projects such as state formation or
colonization. For his dissertation, Kestle worked as a Zooarchaeologist for a National Institute
for the Humanities (NIH) funded multidisciplinary research project in the Selva Lacandona
National Park, Chiapas, Mexico. Kestle’s more recent research
interests focus on tensions between the military's hierarchical command structures and
the ideologically professed autonomy of individuals in classic liberal democratic thought.