Jay Truman Johnson28 October 2018
Jay Truman Johnson
Department of Geography & Atmospheric Science
University of Kansas
1475 Jayhawk Blvd.
Lawrence, KS 66045-7613
Office Phone: +1.785.864.5547
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EDUCATION
PhD, Geography, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, December, 2003
Comprehensive Examination Areas, May, 2001
Cultural Geography
Social Geography
DISSERTATION: “Biculturalism, Resource Management and Indigenous Self-determination”
Graduate Certificate, International Cultural Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa,
May, 2000 (December, 1998-May, 2000)
Research Topic: “Biculturalism: A Thirdspace of Resistance”
MSW, University of Kansas, May, 1991 (August 1988-May, 1991)
Major: Medical Social Work
BA, University of Kansas, January, 1987 (August 1983-January 1987)
Major: Russian and Eastern European History
Minor: American History
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
July, 2013 – presentAssociate Professor of Geography; Adjunct Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies; Associate Chair of Geography & Atmospheric Science (August, 2015-present); Director -Center for Indigenous Research, Science, and Technology at the Institute for Policy & Social Research, University of Kansas (August, 2012-present)
August, 2008 – June, 2013Assistant Professor of Geography; Adjunct Assistant Professor ofIndigenous Studies
May, 2006 – May, 2012Adjunct Senior Fellow – Department of Geography, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Jan., 2006 – Aug., 2008Assistant Professor and Co-Coordinator of the Indigenous Studies PhD Track, Department of Anthropology and Geography; Affiliated Faculty, Native American Studies; Co-Director, Human Rights And Human Diversity Initiative, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Sept., 2004 – Nov., 2005Lecturer in Human Geography (Equivalent to Assistant Professor in the North American System) Department of Geography, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Aug., 1998 – May, 2003Graduate Teaching Assistant and Instructor – Department of Geography, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
BOOKS & REPORTS
Larsen, Soren C. and Jay T. Johnson.2017. Being together in place: Indigenous coexistence in a more-than-human world. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Johnson, Jay T., Renee Pualani Louis, and Andrew Kliskey. 2014. Weaving Indigenous and Sustainability Sciences: Diversifying our Methods. Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation. pp. 116.
Johnson, Jay T. and Soren C. Larsen, eds. 2013. A Deeper Sense of Place: Stories and Journeys of Indigenous-Academic Collaboration. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press.pp. 243.
PUBLICATIONS – REFEREED (21)
Larsen, Soren C. and Jay T. Johnson.2016.The agency of place: toward a more-than-human geographical self. Geohumanities Journal. doi:10.1080/2373566X.2016.1157003.
Johnson, Jay T. and Clare Madge. 2016. Empowering Methodologies: Feminist and Indigenous Approaches. In Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography, edited by I. Hay. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 76-94.
Johnson, Jay T., Richard Howitt, Gregory Cajete, FikretBerkes, Renee Pualani Louis, and Andrew Kliskey. 2016. Weaving Indigenous and Sustainability Sciences to Diversify our Methods. Sustainability Science 11 (1): 1-11doi:10.1007/s11625-015-0349-x
Whyte, Kyle Powys, Brewer, Joseph P., Johnson, Jay T. 2016.Weaving Indigenous Science, Protocols and Sustainability Science. Sustainability Science11 (1): 25-32. doi: 10.1007/s11625-015-0296-6.
Coombes, Brad, Jay T. Johnson, Richard Howitt. 2014. Indigenous Geographies III: Methodological innovation and the unsettling of participatory research. Progress in Human Geography38 (6): 845-854, first published on February 10, 2014 doi:10.1177/0309132513514723
Johnson, Jay T. and Soren C. Larsen. 2013. Introduction: A deeper sense of place. In A Deeper Sense of Place: Stories and Journeys of Indigenous-Academic Collaboration, edited by J. Johnson and S. Larsen. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press p. 7-18.
Johnson, Jay T.2013.Kaitiakitanga: telling the stories of Māori self-determination in resource management.In A Deeper Sense of Place: Stories and Journeys of Indigenous-Academic Collaboration, edited by J. Johnson and S. Larsen. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press p. 127-138.
Since Tenure______
Johnson, Jay T.2013. Dancing into place: the role of the powwow within urban Indigenous communities. In Indigenous in the city: contemporary identities and cultural innovation, edited by E. Peters and C. Anderson. Vancouver: UBC Press p. 316-323.
Coombes, Brad, Jay T. Johnson, Richard Howitt. 2013. Indigenous geographies II: the aspirational spaces in postcolonial politics – reconciliation, belonging and social provision. Progress in Human Geography37 (5): 691-700.
Johnson, Jay T. 2012. Place-based learning and knowing: A critical pedagogy grounded in Indigeneity. GeoJournal 77 (6): 829-836.
Larsen, Soren C. and Jay T. Johnson.2012. In between worlds: place, experience, and research in Indigenous geography. Journal of Cultural Geography 29 (1): 1-15.
Larsen, Soren C. and Jay T. Johnson. 2012. Towards an "open" sense of place: Geography and the question of being. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 102 (3): 632-646.
Coombes, Brad, Jay T. Johnson and Richard Howitt. 2012. Indigenous Geographies I: Mere resource conflicts? The complexity in Indigenous land and environmental claims.Progress in Human Geography 36 (6): 810-821.
Johnson, Jay T. and Michael Yellow Bird. 2011. Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Survival. In Handbook on International Social Work: Human Rights, Development, and the Global Profession, edited by L. Healy and R. Link. Oxford: Oxford University Press p. 208-213.
Coombes,Brad, Nicole Gombay,Jay T. Johnson and Wendy S. Shaw. 2011. The challenges of and from Indigenous Geographies: Implications for openly transcultural research. In The Companion to Social Geography, edited by R. Panelli. Oxford: Blackwell p. 472-489.
Johnson, Jay T.2010.Indigeneity’s challenges to the settler-state: decentering the ‘imperial binary’. In Making Space: Settler-colonial perspectives on land, place and identity, edited by T. B. Mar and P. Edmonds. Oxford: Palgrave Macmillan UK. P. 273-294.
Johnson, Jay T. 2008. Kitchen Table Discourse: negotiating the ‘Tricky Ground’ of Indigenous research. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 32 (3): 127-137.
Johnson, Jay T. 2008.Indigeneity’s challenges to the white settler-state: creating a thirdspace for dynamic citizenship. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 33 (1): 29-52.
Johnson, Jay T., and Brian Murton. 2007. Re/placing Native Science: Indigenous voices in contemporary constructions of nature. Geographical Research 45 (2):121-129.
Johnson, Jay T., Renee Pualani Louis, and AlbertusHadiPramono. 2006. Facing the Future: Encouraging Cartographic Literacies in Indigenous Communities. ACME: An International E-Journal of Critical Geography 4 (1): 80-98.
Johnson, Jay T. 2003. Indigenous Resource Management and Treaty Partnership: Aotearoa/New Zealand and Nunavut Territory, Canada. In Windows on a Changing World: NZGS Conference 2003, edited by J. Gao, R. Le Heron and J. Logie. Auckland: New Zealand Geographical Society, 101-106.
PUBLICATIONS – NON-REFEREED (8)
Nagel, Joane, Jay T. Johnson and Thomas D. Hall. 2015. Indigenous Peoples. In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism, edited by J. Stone, D. Rutledge, P. Rizova, and A. D. Smith. New York: Wiley-Blackwell
Since tenure______
Johnson, Jay T. 2012. Review 4 – spaces between us: queer settler colonialism and indigenous decolonization by Scott LauriaMorgensen. Gender, Place & Culture 19 (5): 693-695.
Louis, Renee Pualani, Jay T. Johnson and AlbertusHadiPramono. 2012. Editorial Introduction: Indigenous Cartographies and Counter-mapping. Cartographica47 (2): 77-79.
The Hi‘iaka Working Group. 2011. Indigenous Knowledges Driving Technological Innovation, aapi nexus 9 (1): 1-9.
Johnson, Jay T.2010.Indigeneity. In Encyclopedia of Geography, edited by B. Warf. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications p. 1554-1556.
Johnson, Jay T.2009. Review of Indigenous Peoples: Self-determination, Knowledge, Indigeneityby Henry Minde,HaraldGaski, SveinJentoft, Georges Midré. The Geographical Journal 175 (3): 238-9.
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):117-120 (editorial introduction for a special edition).
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.
EDITOR – JOURNAL SPECIAL EDITIONS
Johnson, Jay T., Renee Pualani Louis and Andrew Kliskey. 2016. Weaving Indigenous and Sustainability Sciences to Diversify our Methods. Sustainability Science.
Louis, Renee Pualani, Jay T. Johnson and AlbertusHadiPramono. 2012 Indigenous Cartographies and Counter-mapping. Cartographica47 (2).
Larsen, Soren C. and Jay T. Johnson. 2012. In between worlds: place, experience, and research in Indigenous geography. Journal of Cultural Geography 29(1).
Johnson, Jay T., Garth Cant, Richard Howitt, and Evelyn Peters. 2007. Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledges and Rights. Geographical Research 45 (2).
PUBLICATIONS – UNDER REVIEW
MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS
Johnson, Jay T., Joseph P. Brewer and Kyle Powys Whyte. Reciprocal Guardianship.
Louis, Renee Pualani, Elizabeth Medicine Crow, Kyle Wark, and Jay T. Johnson. Collectively harnessing Indigenous research principles, protocols, and practices (CHIRP3). ACME: An International E-Journal of Critical Geography
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS (33)
“Learning from place: Lessons of hospitality and reciprocity at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds, Aotearoa/New Zealand,” American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, CA, 2016
“Facilitating Indigenous Research, Science, and Technology: the story of an emerging network,” Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Conference, Tucson, AZ, 2014
“Negotiating the Indigenous and Sustainability Sciences Divide,” Association of American Geographers Conference, Tampa, FL, 2014
“Negotiating the Indigenous and Sustainability Sciences Divide,” International Geographical Union Regional Conference, Kyoto, Japan, and Hokusei-Gakuen University, Sapporo, Japan, 2013
“Learning from Indigenous science: I-Kiribati awareness, knowledge, and adaptation to environmental change” with Gene Rankey, Lara O’Brien, KambatiUriam, and Johannes Feddema, Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Los Angeles, CA, 2013
“Thirdspace: the lived spaces of Indigenous self-determination,” Association of American Geographers annual meeting, New York, NY, 2012
“Storied Landscapes: Knowing the world through place,” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association annual meeting, Sacramento, CA, 2011
“Being-in-place together: Is there room for the settler in anarcho-indigenism?” Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Seattle, WA, 2011
“Defining Traditional Ecological Knowledges,” Bridging Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Interdisciplinary Research in the Arctic, NSF funded IGERT conference, Juneau, AK, 2011
“Dancing into place: the role of the pow-wow within urban Indigenous communities,” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association annual meeting, Tucson, AZ, 2010
“Kitchen Table Discourse: developing research relationships by identifying ‘common ground’,” Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Washington, DC, 2010
“Dancing into place: the role of the pow-wow within urban Indigenous communities,” Indigenous Urbanization in International Perspective Conference, Saskatoon, Canada, 2009
“Indigenous Resource Management and Treaty Partnership: Aotearoa/New Zealand and Nunavut Territory, Canada,” Canadian Association of Geographers, Ottawa, Canada, 2009
“Is Saying Sorry Enough? The Search for Truth and Reconciliation” Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, 2009
“Storied Landscapes: Place-based learning and knowing,” Language in Landscape Conference, Navajo Reservation, 2008
“Autochthony, Indigeneity and Place,” Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, 2008
“Place-based learning and knowing: Critical pedagogies grounded in Indigeneity,” International Geographical Union Commission on Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledges and Rights Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, 2007
“Place-based learning and knowing: Critical pedagogies anchored in Indigeneity,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; San Francisco, CA, 2007
“Facing Future: Encouraging Cartographic Literacy in Indigenous Communities,” Association of American Geographers Joint Annual Meeting of the Great-Plains, Rocky Mountains and West Lakes Divisions; Lincoln, NE, 2006
“Waitangi’s Contested Landscape,” International Geographical Union Conference; Brisbane, Australia, 2006
“‘A map of tribal areas’: Mapping Pākehā authority onto Māori communities,” Indigenous Cartography and Representational Politics Conference; Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 2006
“Re/placing Native science: Indigenous voices in contemporary constructions of nature,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Chicago, IL, 2006
“Waitangi: A contested landscape,” Canterbury Branch of the New Zealand Geographical Society; Christchurch, New Zealand, 2005
“Facing Future: Encouraging Cartographic Literacies in Indigenous Communities,” The Indigenous Knowledges Conference - Reconciling Academic Priorities with Indigenous Realities; Wellington, New Zealand, 2005
“Waitangi: A contested landscape,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Denver, CO, 2005
“Indigeneity’s challenges to the white settler-state: creating a space for ‘dynamic citizenship’,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Philadelphia, PA, 2004
“Indigenous Resource Management and Treaty Partnership: Aotearoa and Nunavut, Canada” New Zealand Geographical Society 22nd Conference; Auckland, New Zealand, 2003
“Colonialism and Place in Settler Colonies: Indigenous Agency and the Construction of Nature in the Contact Zone,” Joint paper with Brian Murton, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; New Orleans, LA, 2003
“Biculturalism, Resource Management and Māori Self-determination,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Los Angles, CA, 2002
“The Makah, the Environmentalist and the Whale: A Media Trial by Space,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; New York, NY, 2001
“The Nunavut Act: A Geography of Indigenous Self-Determination,” American Indian Studies Conference; Boise, ID, 2000
PAPER SESSIONS (3)
Discussant: “The Agency of Place,” American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, CA, 2016
Discussant: “Critical Issues in Indigenous Geography,” Association of American Geographers, Washington, DC, 2010
Discussant: “Places Postcolonialism Forgot: New Examinations of Center & Periphery,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Las Vegas, NV, 2009
Discussant: “Indigenous Peoples: Place and Methodology,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Philadelphia, PA, 2004
SCHOLARLY PANELS (15)
“Arctic Horizons 2025: NSF forum on the Future of Arctic Social Research,” American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, CA, 2016
“Teaching Vine Deloria, Jr.” 8th Annual Vine Deloria, Jr. Indigenous Studies Symposium; Northwest Indian College, Lummi, WA, 2013
“Geographies of Hope Symposium” Association of American Geographers annual meeting; Los Angeles, CA, 2013
“Creative Placemaking” a panel discussion with the Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, Rocco Landesman, at the Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, 2012
“Author meets interlocutors: spaces between us: queer settler colonialism and indigenous decolonization by Scott LauriaMorgensen” Association of American Geographers annual meeting; New York, NY, 2012
“A Deeper Sense of Place: New Geographies of Indigenous-Academic Collaboration,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Washington, DC, 2010
“Indigenous Methodologies: Teaching Indigenous Perspectives in the Academy,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Las Vegas, NV, 2009
“Indigenous Geography and Education: Negotiating pedagogy in the classroom and the discipline,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Boston, MA, 2008
“The Colonial Present V: Post-Coloniality and Indigenous Geography,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Boston, MA, 2008
“New Stories for Old Places,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Boston, MA, 2008
“Geography and Indigenous Peoples: New Directions,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; San Francisco, CA, 2007
“Strengthening Collaborations: the role of academics and theory in indigenous mapping projects” Indigenous Cartography and Representational Politics Conference; Cornell University, New York, 2006
“Indigenous Identity Politics and Technoscience,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Philadelphia, PA, 2004
“Doing Indigenous Geography: Approaches to Indigenous Methods and Research,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Philadelphia, PA, 2004
“Posting Up: Positioning Research Methodology in Postcolonial Contexts,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Los Angeles, CA, 2002
“The State of Indigenous Peoples’ Geography,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; New York, NY, 2001
INVITED SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS (11)
“The ethical and epistemological challenges to sharing qualitative data,” Qualitative Data Sharing and Use to Accelerate Synthesis for Conservation and SustainabilityScience, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, Annapolis, MD 2017
“The Haskell/KU collaboration in STEM education,” with co-presenter Joe Brewer, The Tribal College STEM Summit, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 2016
“How can we Work Together on Climate Change,” Haskell Indian Nations University in collaboration with the US Department of Arts & Culture, Lawrence, KS 2016
“Place-based learning and knowing: a critical pedagogy grounded in indigeneity,” The Hall Center for the Humanities: Nature and Culture Seminar series, 2012
“Dancing into place: the role of the pow-wow within urban Indigenous communities,” Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 2010
“Indigenous Self-determination and Resource Management: Aotearoa/New Zealand and Nunavut Territory, Canada,” Lincoln University, Lincoln, New Zealand, 2010
“Storied Landscapes: place-based learning and knowing,” National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC, 2009
“Place-based learning and knowing: Critical pedagogies grounded in Indigeneity,” University of Missouri – Columbia, Department of Geography, 2007
“Re/placing Native Science: Indigenous Voices in Contemporary Constructions of Nature” seminar presentation for the Departments of Human Geography and Aboriginal Studies at Macquarie University; Sydney, Australia, 2006 and the Department of Geography at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2006.
“Bridging the Cultural Studies – Indigenous Studies divide: Can we find a place for critical theory in country?” International Cultural Studies Seminar Series, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, 2005
“Facing Future: Encouraging Cartographic Literacy,” Joint Plenary Presentation with Renee Pualani Louis at the International Forum on Indigenous Mapping; Vancouver, BC, 2004
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
A SHARED Future: Achieving Strength, Health, and Autonomy through Renewable Energy Developments for the Future. Canadian Institutes of Health Research. 2016-2021, CAN$2,000,000 Collaborator, PI, Heather Castleden, Queens University, awarded
WISE, Weaving Indigenous Science into Education, KS NSF EPSCoR, 2017-2022, $3,250,000 PI, co-PI: Melinda Crow, Haskell Indian Nations University, under review
MOONSTEMS: Mentoring Our Own Native STEM Scientists, NSF INCLUDES #1641353, pre-proposal, PI, co-PIs, Renee Pualani Louis and Joseph Brewer, KU; Melinda Crow, Haskell Indian Nations University, not invited
Integrating Native and Geoscience Education for a Sustainable Future, NSF Tribal College and University Program/Partnership to Advance Geoscience Education #1641311, 2016-2021, $1,650,000, co-PI, PI, VenidaChenault, Haskell Indian Nations University, co-PI: Joseph Brewer, KU; Melinda Crow, Haskell, declined
Doctoral Dissertation Research: Bridging Knowledge Systems to Improve Ecosystem Management along the Yukon River, Alaska, NSF #1504203, 2015-2016, $36,507, PI, co-PI: Victoria Walsey, University of Kansas, awarded
WISE, Weaving Indigenous Science into Education, KS NSF EPSCoR, 2016-2021, $3,812,142 PI, co-PI: Melinda Crow, Haskell Indian Nations University, declined
FEW: Workshop on the Integration of Indigenous Science into Food, Energy and Water Systems (InFEWSion), 2015-2016, $49,807 co-PI: PI: Andrew Kliskey, University of Idaho; co-PIsLilianAlessa, University of Idaho; William Michener, University of New Mexico,declined
WIS2E, Weaving Indigenous and Sustainability Sciences in Education, KS NSF EPSCoR, 2015-2020, $3,300,000 PI, co-PI: Cody Marshall, Haskell Indian Nations University, declined
FIRST, Facilitating Indigenous Research, Science, and Technology, Office of Polar Programs, NSF #1417767, 2015-2020, $499,956, PI, co-PIs: Renee Pualani Louis, University of Kansas; Liz Medicine Crow, First Alaskans Institute; Mark Palmer, University of Missouri, awarded