Justin Richland, Ph.D., J.D.
2361 Social Ecology
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-7080
, / (949) 824-5756
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA at LOS ANGELES, DEPT. of ANTHROPOLOGY
Doctor of Philosophy, 2004
BOALT HALL SCHOOL of LAW, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
Juris Doctor, 1996
American Jurisprudence Award, Law and Modern Social Thought.
KENYON COLLEGE, Gambier OH.
Bachelor of Arts, Magna Cum Laude, Anthropology 1992
Margaret C. Mead Award for Excellence in Anthropology
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2009- Associate Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Criminology, Law & Society
Present University of California, Irvine.
2005- Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology, Law and Society
2009 University of California, Irvine.
2005 Interim Director and Clinical Lecturer, Native Nations Law and Policy Center
UCLA School of Law.
JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS
2006 Evidentiary Hearing Officer,
Morongo Tribe of Mission Indians, Banning, CA.
2005- Justice Pro Tempore, Hopi Appellate Court
2009 The Hopi Tribe, Kykotsmovi Arizona.
PROFESSIONAL AFFLIATIONS
American Anthropological Association (Member since 1997)
Law and Society Association (Member since 2000)
Association for Legal and Political Anthropology (Member since 2003)
Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities (Member since 2003)
Society for Linguistic Anthropology (Member since 1999)
Society for North American Anthropology (Member since 2006)
Center for Ethnography, UC Irvine (Board Member since 2005)
The Nakwatsvewat Institute, A Non-Profit Corporation (Founder and Chair of Board since 2007)
American Studies Association (Member since 2009)
National Science Foundation, Advisory Panel Member (2009-present)
JOURNAL BOARDS/EDITORSHIPS
American Anthropologist (Member, Editorial Board since 2008)
American Anthropologist (Book Reviews Co-Editor since 2007)
Journal for Political and Legal Anthropological Review (Member, Editorial Board since 2005)
HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS
2009 Social and Economic Development Strategies for Native Americans Grant, Administration
for Native Americans, US Dept. of Health and Human Services. CFDA # 93.612, (Co- Authored with Ethan Elkind & Patricia Sekaquaptewa). $900,000 awarded to The
Nakwatsvewat Institute, Inc, for “Hopi Dispute Resolution Services.”
2009 Center for Law, Culture and Society: Research Seed Grant. $1,300
2008 UCI School of Social Ecology: Travel and Research Grant. $1,024
2008 UCI Faculty Career Development Award for “Practices of Persuasion: The Language of
Tribal Lobbying.” $5,500
2008 UCI Center for Law, Society and Culture, for Native Claims Colloquium Series (co-
organized with Bill Maurer): $3,500
2008 UCI Office of Research, for Native Claims Colloquium Series (co-organized with Bill
Maurer): $3,600
2008 UCI American Indian Resource Program for Native Claims Colloquium Series (co-
organized with Bill Maurer): $1,000
2007 UCI Academic Senate Council on Research, Computing and Library Resources Grant, for
“(De)Colonizing Hopi Law: The History of the Hopi Tribal Court, 1972-present.” $3,500
2006- Social and Economic Development Strategies for Native Americans Grant, Administration
2009 for Native Americans, US Dept. of Health and Human Services. CFDA # 93.612, (Co-
Authored with Ethan Elkind & Patricia Sekaquaptewa). $900,000 awarded to The
Nakwatsvewat Institute, Inc, for “Hopi Dispute Resolution Services.”
2003- UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship
2003 Institute for American Cultures, Grant for Research in American Indian Studies
2002 Law and Society Association Graduate Student Workshop Participant
2002 UCLA Department of Anthropology, Travel and Research Grant
2002 Tribal Court Enhancement Grant, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance, Award # 2000-IC-VX-0004 (Co-authored with Pat Sekaquaptewa): $219,975 paid to the Hopi Tribe.
2000 UCLA Department of Anthropology, Travel and Research Grant
1999- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship; Linguistic
2003 Anthropology
1998 Institute for American Cultures, Predoctoral Grant for Research in American Indian Studies.
1998 University Fellowship, UCLA College of Arts & Letters, Graduate Division
1997 Louis & Thelma Lippman Fellowship, UCLA Department of Anthropology
1996 Highest Honors, Writing Requirement, Boalt Hall School of Law
1995 American Jurisprudence Award in Law and Modern Social Thought, Boalt Hall
School of Law
1992 Margaret C. Mead Award for Excellence in Anthropology, Kenyon College,
1992 Magna Cum Laude, Kenyon College
PUBLICATIONS
Books
B2. 2008 Arguing with Tradition. The Language of Law in Hopi Tribal Court.
Chicago Series in Law and Society. University of Chicago Press: Chicago
B1. 2004 Introduction To Tribal Legal Studies. [80% Co-authorship with Sarah Deer] Tribal Legal Studies Series, Vol. 1. Alta Mira Press: Walnut Creek, CA
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
J11. (Under Review) Lex Llewellyn and the Tribal Tax Status Act: “Fallible Gropings” in the
Relationships Between Law and Society. [50% Co-authorship with Bill
Maurer]
J10. (Under Review) History Hiding Law: The Founding of the Hopi Tribal Court. [50% Co-
authorship with Glenn Trager], Law and Society Review.
J9. (Under Review) Storied Moments: The Narrative Time of Interaction and Experience.
[50% Co-authorship with C. Jason Throop], Current Anthropology.
J8. (Forthcoming) Hopi Tradition as Jurisdiction. Law and Social Inquiry. Special Issue
on Law and Indigeneity, Eve Darian-Smith and Nick Buchanan, eds.
J7. 2009 Nuvatukya’ovi, San Francisco Peaks: Balancing Western Economies With Native
American Spiritualities. A Report. [ 20% Co-authorship with Maria Glowacka
and Dorothy Washburn], Current Anthropology, Vol. 50 (4), 547-562
J6. 2009 Hopi Sovereignty as Epistemological Limit. Wicazo Sa Review Vol. 24 (1),
89-112
J5. 2008 The State of Hopi Exception: When inheritance is what you have. Cardozo Review of Law and Literature. Vol. 20 (2) 161-178
J4. 2008 Sovereign Time, Storied Moments: Time, Law, and Ethnography.
Political and Anthropological Review. Vol. 31 (1) 56-75
J3. 2007 Pragmatic Paradoxes and Ironies of Indigeneity, American Ethnologist
34 (3), 540-558
J2. 2006 “The Multiple Calculi of Meaning.” Discourse & Society, Vol. 17 (1), 65-97
J1. 2005 “What are you going to do with the village’s knowledge?” Talking Tradition,
Talking Law in Hopi Tribal Court. Law and Society Review, Vol. 39, 235-271.
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
BC3. (In Press) “‘They Did It Like A Song’: Aesthetics, Ethics and Tradition in Hopi
Tribal Court.’ In M. Lambek, ed. Ordinary Ethics. (Fordham University
Press)
BC2. (In Press) “The Nakwatsvewat Institute, Inc.: Helping Hopi Justice Work for Hopi
People.” [60% co-authorship with Patricia Sekaquaptewa, J.D.] In L.
Davis, ed. Re-envisioning Relationships, Aboriginal- Non-aboriginal
Alliances.(University of Toronto Press).
BC1. 2009 "'Language, Court, Constitution. It's All Tied Up Into One': The (Meta)pragmatics
of Tradition in a Hopi Tribal Court Hearing." In Paul Kroskrity and Margaret
Field, eds. Native American Language Ideologies: Beliefs, Feelings, and
Struggles in Indian Country University of Arizona Press: Tucson, AZ.
Book Reviews.
BR5. (In Press) Review of Bradin Cormack’s A Power to Do Justice: English Literature,
and the Rise of Common Law 1509-1625 (University of Chicago Press,
2008). In Law, Culture & Humanities
BR4. 2008 Review of Felix Cohen’s, On the Drafting of Tribal Constitutions. Edited by
David E. Wilkins (University of Oklahoma Press, 2007). In American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 32(2).
BR3. 2006 “Cultural ‘Shock’” Review of Alison Dundes Renteln, The Cultural Defense.
(Oxford University Press, 2004). In Current Anthropology, 47(6).
BR2. 2002 Review of John M. Conley and William M. O’Barr’s Just Words: Law, Language
and Power, (1998) in Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 12:1 (34-35)
BR1. 2000 Review of Melissa Pflüg’s Ritual & Myth in Odawa Revitalization: Reclaiming a
Sovereign Place. (1998) In American Indian Culture and Research Journal 24:1, 56-58.
Other Publications
OP4. 2009 On Neoliberalism And Other Social Diseases: The 2008 Sociocultural
Anthropology Year in Review. American Anthropologist Vol. 110 (2), 170-176.
OP3. 2008 Analyzing The Trial: Interdisciplinary Methods. [25% co-authorship with Robert
Burns, Marianne Constable, and Winnifred Sullivan] Directions PoLAR: Political & Legal Anthropology Review Vol. 31 (2). 303-329.
OP2. 2007 Commentary on Nesper. Current Anthropology 48(5), 675-700
OP1. 2007 “Mitchel v. United States, 34 U.S. 711; 9 L.Ed. 283 (1835)”. In Donald L.
Fixico, Ed. Treaties with American Indians: An Encyclopedia of Rights,
Conflicts, and Sovereignty (ABC-CLIO: Santa Barbara, CA)
Reprints
R2. 2009 Introduction To Tribal Legal Studies. 2nd Edition. [80% Co-authorship
with Sarah Deer] Tribal Legal Studies Series, Vol. 1. Alta Mira Press:
Walnut Creek, CA
R1. 2007 “Interpretazione significato e intenzionalità nelle dispute legali tra gli
hopi.” In Aurora Donzelli, Alessandra Fasulo, Eds. Linguaggio e Agency:
Etnoteorie della Soggettività e della Responsabilità nell’Azione Sociale. (Meltemi Editore Roma) (Reprint of J2.).
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS/ INVITED LECTURES
2009 Participant, “The Politics of Spectacle/Spectacular Politics”. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, December 2009.
2009 Participant, Covering the Law: Documenting Justice in Picture, Performance, and Press.
UC Irvine, Irvine CA, November 9, 2009.
2009 Roundtable Participant, Productive Paths – Linking Native and Academic Communities
Gathering Native/American Scholars and Artists: A Celebration of 40 years of the UCLA American Indian Studies Center. Los Angeles, CA, October 22-23, 2009.
2009 Workshop Participant, Sovereign Bodies, Subject Bodie. 6th meeting of the German American Frontiers of Humanities Program, of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the American Philosophical Society. Potsdam, Germany, October 15-18, 2009
2009 Roundtable Participant, Marginal Returns: Immigration, Indigeneity and the Offshore. Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Denver, CO May 2009
2009 Roundtable Participant, Indigeneity in Sociolegal Pedagogy. Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Denver, CO May 2009
2009 Invited Lecture in the American Indian Studies Program, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, April 2009
2009 Invited Lecture for the Conference on Law and Humanities in Honor of J. Allen Smith, Rutgers University School of Law, Newark, NJ, April 2009
2009 Invited Lecture at the Center for Law and Society, U.C. Berkeley School of Law, March 2009
2009 “Taxing Native Claims: Challenges to Economic Developmnt in Indian Country” Conference Organizer, Indian Country.” UC Irvine, March 2009
2009 Invited Lecture, Indigenous Law Center, Michigan State University School of Law, Feb 2009.
2009 Conference Organizer, “Native Claims on the International Scene: A Conversation with Elsa Stamatopoulou and Bruce Robbins. UC Irvine, Feb 2009.
2009 Invited Lecture in the Dept. of Anthropology University of Chicago, January 2009
2008 “Corrupting Conversations: Ethics and Metadiscourse in Federal Lobbying Reform Legislation.” Invited lecture at the Center for Law and Society, New York University, October 16, 2008
2008 “The Ethics and Aesthetics of Interaction in U.S. Lobbying Reform Legislation.” Invited lecture at the Workshop on Ethics in Ordinary Life, University of Toronto. October 3-6, 2008.
2008 “From the Cheyenne Way to the Year of Tribal Banking: The Currency of Custom at the Edge of Anthropology and Law.” [50% Co-authored with Bill Maurer]. Invited presentation at the Conference on Law and Anthropology, University College, London. July7-8, 2008
2008 “The Exception of Hopi Sovereignty.” Meeting of the Law and Society Association. Montreal, Canada. May 28, 2008.
2008 “The Case as Unit of Analysis – Roundtable on Qualitative Methodologies,” Meeting of the Law and Society Association. Montreal, Canada. May 27, 2008
2008 “Comment on Thoughtless Acts” Invited presentation at the Workshop on The Workaround As Social Relation. UC Humanities Research Institute, UC Irvine Anthropology Department, & Intel Corporation. April 28, 2008
2008 “Recognizing Student Needs: Responding with an Holistic Approach to American Indian Studies Curricula.” Roundtable Participant. Institute of American Indian Studies, University of Georgia. Athens, GA, April 8, 2008.
2008- “Native Claims: Indigeneity and Indigenous Studies Today.” Colloquium Series
2010 Co-organizer with Bill Maurer
2008 “From Law-Applying to Law-Making: From Law to Policy in Tribal Lobbying.” A Dialogue between the Anthropology of Law and Policy. Center for Ethnography, UC Irvine, March 18, 2008.
2008 “Native Claims in the (Post) Colonial Americas”. Discussant and Co-organizer with
Rachel O’Toole. Critical Legalities Symposium, Center for Law, Society and Culture.
UC Irvine, March 13, 2008.
2007 “Law-Time / Life Time : The multiple temporalities of Hopi sovereignty.” Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C. November 28, 2007
2007 “Sovereign Time, Storied Moments: The temporalities of Hopi tribal law.” Meeting of
the Law and Society Association. Berlin, Germany, July 25, 2007
2007 “What’s so hard about soft law? De-texturing law’s structures of feeling.” Discussant. Center for Ethnography, UC Irvine. May 4-5, 2007
2006 “Hamlet among Friends and Enemies.” By Dr. Julia Lupton. Discussant. Center for Law, Society and Culture. UC Irvine, November 29, 2006
2006 “The Power of Language.” Invited Lecture on Intentionality and Agency, UCLA Dept. of Anthropology, Los Angeles, CA. November 22, 2006.
2006 Time, Space, Ethnography. Chair and Co-Organizer, with Susan Coutin and Barbara
Yngvesson. Meeting of the American Anthropological Association November 16-20, 2006, San Jose, CA.
2006 Making Aboriginal Justice Work for Aboriginal Peoples, The Nakwatsvewat Institute. Plenary Session of the Rethinking Relationships, Aboriginal Alliances Conference. Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, CA, November 2-5, 2006
2005 From Language to Law and Back Again. Update of the Five Fields of Anthropology.
Society for Anthropology in the Community Colleges. Meeting of the American
Anthropological Association, November 17-21, 2005. Washington, D.C.
2004 Enacting Self-Determinations. Co-Organizer with David Kamper and Presenter. Annual
Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 17-21, 2004, San
Francisco, CA.
2004 Narrative, Interaction and Experience, Chair, and Co-Organizer, Co-presenter with C.
Jason Throop. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November
17-21, 2004, San Francisco, CA.
2004 Talking Law in the Tsikwànki: Interaction and Jurisprudence in the Hopi Tribal Court.
Presentation at the Conference of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and
Humanities, March 12-13, 2004. Hartford, CT.
2003 Making Peace and Making Sense: Narrative Interaction and Tradition in Hopi Dispute
Resolution. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 19-23, 2003. Chicago, IL.
2002 “What are you going to do with the Village’s knowledge?”Accomodating and
Resisting the Reach of Federal Law in a Hopi Tribal Court Hearing. Presentation at
The Joint Annual Conference of the Law & Society Association, and the Canadian
Law and Society Association, June 4-6, 2002. Vancouver, B.C.
2001 “It doesn’t have as much effect because I can’t use my language.” Metadiscursive
Practices as Rhetorics in a Hopi Tribal Court Hearing. Presentation at the Annual
Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 18-20, 2001.