He received his B.A. from the University of New Mexico and his doctorate from the University of Arizona. He was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell College from 2010 to 2012. Dr. Daughters teaches courses on economic anthropology, globalization, history of anthropological theory, and indigenous North and South America. He carries out field research on the Archipelago of Chiloé in southern Chile, where he runs a study abroad program for Truman students. His research articles have appeared in Anthropology Now, Journal of the Southwest, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, and Kiva. He is a co-editor of Moquis and Kastiilam: Hopis, Spaniards, and the Trauma of History, 1540-1679 (University of Arizona Press, 2015).