Jacob Holland-Lulewicz is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Transdisciplinary Research on Environment and Society at Penn State University. He holds a PhD from the University of Georgia and an undergraduate degree from Arizona State University. His research explores deep-time histories of governance, especially across Indigenous North America and Inner Asia. In particular, his work aims to understand the contexts and conditions for the emergence of different forms of governance, from democratic to autocratic, and the impacts and outcomes of these differing strategies. From the earliest villages in North America through the arrival of European colonizers, to Emancipation and the collapse of the plantation system in the American South or the emergence of early nomadic empires across Mongolia, Jacob seeks to illuminate key processes in sociopolitical evolution globally.