Daniel Nugent (1954-1997) was an American anthropologist and professor at the University of Arizona. His most notable works include Everyday Forms of State Formation, a co-edited collection of essays about state formation in modern Mexico and Rural Revolt in Mexico: U.S. Intervention and the Domain of Subaltern Politics, an edited collection of essays about subaltern politics in Mexico. Nugent was also a playwright, and he co-wrote the play 13 Days/Los Trece Dias: The Zapista Uprising in Chiapas which toured nationally from 1996 to 1997. He died in Tucson at the age of 43.