Jace Weaver
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Jace Weaver (Cherokee) is Director of the Institute of Native American Studies, Professor of Religion, and Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Georgia. He holds two doctorates, a J.D. from Columbia Law School of Columbia University [1982] and a Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary [1996] in New York.
Dr. Weaver's work in Native American Studies is highly interdisciplinary, though focusing primarily on three areas: religious traditions, literature, and law. He is the author or editor of eight books. A practicing lawyer, he has worked as a consultant for the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department on culturally appropriate displays and depictions of Native American culture in public institutions.
[edit] Awards
In 2003, Dr. Weaver won the Wordcraft Circle Award for Best Creative Non-Fiction from the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers for Other Words: American Indian Literature, Law, and Culture. In 1999, he won the Portfolio Award for excellence in teaching resources from the journal Media and Methods for his book on CD-ROM, American Journey: The Native American Experience. He has also been nominated for the Oklahoma and Connecticut Book Awards.
[edit] Books
- Then to the Rock Let Me Fly: Luther Bohanon and Judicial Activism, University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.
- Defending Mother Earth: Native American Perspectives on Environmental Justice, Orbis Books, 1996.
- That the People Might Live: Native American Literatures and Native American Community , Oxford University Press, 1997.
- Native American Religious Identity: Unforgotten Gods, Orbis Books, 1998.
- American Journey: The Native American Experience, Research Publications, 1998.
- Other Words: American Indian Essays on Literature. Law and Culture Forthcoming, University of Oklahoma Press, 2001.
- Turtle goes to war: Of military commissions, the constitution and American Indian memory, Trylon and Perisphere Press, 2002.
- American Indian Literary Nationalism, with Craig S. Womack & Robert Warrior, University of New Mexico Press, 2006.
