Dr. Jay T. Johnson

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Geography

Affiliate, Native American Studies

Co-chair, Human Rights and Human Diversity Initiative

Adjunct Senior Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ

Ph.D. University of Hawai'i-Manoa, 2003

Office: 934 Oldfather Hall
Email: jjohnson18@unl.edu
Phone: 402.472.1944
Fax: 402.472.9642

Research Interests

Indigenous peoples' self-determination and resource management, Indigenous identity production, Indigenous peoples' rights, the 'politics of place'

Education

Ph.D. - University of Hawai'i-Manoa
GCert International Cultural Studies - University of Hawai'i-Manoa
M.S.W. - University of Kansas
B.A. - University of Kansas

Selected Publications

Johnson, Jay T, Garth Cant, Richard Howitt, and Evelyn Peters. 2007. Creating anti-colonial geographies: Embracing Indigenous Peoples' Knowledges and Rights. Geographical Research 45 (2).

Johnson, Jay T, and Brian Murton. 2007. Re/placing Native Science: Indigenous voices in contemporary constructions of nature. Geographical Research 45 (2).

Johnson, Jay T., Renee Pualani Louis, and Albertus Hadi Pramono. 2005 "Facing Future: Encouraging Cartographic Literacies in Indigenous Communities" in ACME: An International E-Journal of Critical Geography 4(1): 80-98.

Johnson, Jay T. 2005. Review of "Indigenous Peoples: Resource Management and Global Rights" by Jentoft, Svein, H. Minde and R. Nilsen. New Zealand Geographer 61 (2):176-77.

Johnson Jay T., 2003, "Indigenous Resource Management and Treaty partnership: Aotearoa/New Zealand and Nunavut Territory, Canada" in Gao J., Le Heron R. and Logie J. (2003) Windows on a Changing World: NZGS Conference 2003, New Zealand Geographical Society, Auckland, pp 101-106.

Johnson Jay T., Biculturalism, Resource Management and Indigenous Self-determination, PhD thesis, Department of Geography, University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

Teaching Experience

2004 - 2005 University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Courses Taught

University of Nebraska - Lincoln

GEOG 140 Introduction to Human Geography
GEOG 431/831 Cultural Geography
GEOG 435/835 Cultural Survival: Indigenous Peoples' Rights
GEOG 931 Comparative Indigenous Nations Studies
ANTH/GEOG 994 Postcolonial geographies

University of Canterbury

GEOG 206 Resource and Environmental Management
GEOG 454 Comparative Indigenous Nations Studies
SCIM 101 Maori and Indigenous Science

Professional Memberships

International Geographical Union, 2005 - present
Chair, Commission on Indigenous Peoples' Knowledges and Rights, 2006 - 2010
Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science, 2001 - present
Association of American Geographers, 1999 - present
Co-Chair, Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group, 2004 - 2008