Jace Weaver
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Jace Weaver (Cherokee) is Director of the Institute of Native American Studies, Franklin Professor of Religion and Native American Studies, 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 nine 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. Most recently, he has worked as a consultant for the Cherokee Nation and the Cherokee National Historical Society regarding historical reconstruction and the preservation and interpretation of the sites of the original Cherokee National Female and Male Seminaries, opened in 1851.
Awards
In 2009, Dr. Weaver received a Special Recognition award from the Centers for Disease Control for his work in promoting Native public health. Dr. Weaver and his wife, Laura Weaver, were members of the team that "translated" the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2. The book that resulted won the 2008 PubWest Gold Design Award (Academic) from the Publishers Association of the West. In 2007, Dr. Weaver shared the first annual Bea Medicine Award for Scholarship in American Indian Studies from the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and the Native American Literature Symposium with Craig Womack and Robert Warrior for their book, American Indian Literary Nationalism. In 2003, he 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.
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, University of Oklahoma Press, 2001.
- Turtle Goes to War: Of Military Commissions, the Constitution and American Indian Memory, Trylon and Perisphere Press, 2002.
- The Cherokee Night and Other Plays by Lynn Riggs, University of Oklahoma Press, 2003.
- American Indian Literary Nationalism, with Craig S. Womack & Robert Warrior, University of New Mexico Press, 2006.
- Notes from a Miner's Canary: Essays on the State of Native America, University of New Mexico Press, Forthcoming, 2010.
- Red Clay, 1835: Cherokee Removal and the Meaning of Sovereignty, Longman, Forthcoming, 2010.
