Co-founder & graduate student
nathantilton82@berkeley.edu

Nate Tilton is an Austronesian American with roots across the Pacific, a first-generation scholar, and transfer student. He is a 3rd-year PhD student in Cultural Anthropology at UC Berkeley. Drawing from his experiences as a disabled veteran, his research focuses on how institutions disable people, with fieldwork on Guam and the Philippines. He examines military colonialism through his concept of ‘military ecologies,’ framing colonialism as an invasive species that disrupts indigenous systems and ecologies. As a co-founder of the Critical Pacific Islands Studies Collective, he advocates for disability justice and works to bridge disability advocacy in trans-Pacific spaces.