PUBLICATIONS

In progress        Legisprudence: Theorizing Legislation for the Anthropological Imaginary. Book manuscript.
Forthcoming      Discretion, Deprivation, Discrimination: Decision-Making, Prejudice, and the Legal Maintenance of Racism.
Under review    Public Health, Public Law, and Problem-Solving Courts: Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Discretion as Agency in Medicalization
                           and Racialization Processes.
Under review    Theories of Legal Knowledge from the Margins: Re-appropriating Legal Scholarship from Hobbes to Maitland to Foucault.
N.d.                   Deliberative Escamotage: Procedural Sleights of Hand and the Exclusion of Key Interests in the Reform of the National Health
                           Service in Wales.
2011                 The Constitution of Subjects in the Long Revolution: Race, the Police Power, and the Everyday Shaping of the Ensemble State.
                           Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida.
2009                 Review of Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis, by William Haltom and Michael McCann. In Political and
                           Legal Anthropology Review, 32(1):124-127.
2008                 Review Essay: Property and Equality: Vol. I: Ritualisation, Sharing, Egalitarianism, and Vol. II: Encapsulation, Commercialisation,
                           Discrimination, Thomas Widlok and Wolde Gossa Tadessa, eds. In Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 31(2):351-356.
2007                Reservation System.” In Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, John Moore, ed. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, pp. 499-503.
2007                Review of Expert Knowledge: First World Peoples, Consultancy, and Anthropology, by Barry Morris and Rohan Bastin. In Political
                         and Legal Anthropology Review, 30(2):346-351.
2005                Economic Growth and the Citizenship Debate in Ireland.” In Anthropology News 46(5):53.
2001                Review of Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends, by Lonnie R. Johnson, In Bulletin of the Society for the Anthropology of
                          Europe 1(1):42-44.

2000               An Independent Test of the Technique of Aging Skeletal Material from the Sternal End of the Right Fourth Rib.” Unpublished
                        Master’s Thesis. Department of Anthropology, University of Montana.

TECHNICAL WRITING: POLICY BRIEFS, REPORTS, & LITIGATION SUPPORT

2011       Mental Health and Minoritized Populations in Wales: A Report on Evidence Gathered during Field Research 2008-2009. Report delivered to the Wales Equality Research Collaboration.

2010       Public Health in the Distance: Changing Rural Economies, Cultural Landscapes, and the Experiences and Outcomes of Rural Mental Disorder in Wales. Brief submitted to Rural Development Network (Wales) in support of European Rural Development Policy grant administration report.

2010       Race and the Geographic Margins: Rural Settlement Patterns among Black and Minority Ethnic Populations in North and West Wales. Report submitted to the Black Voluntary Sector Network Wales.

2009       Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality in Health Care Service Delivery. Report delivered to James Thomason, Director of Primary Care, Bro Morgannwg Health Board.

2009       Farmers in Crisis: Loss of Production and Changes in Land Tenure as Vectors of Mental Disorder. Policy brief delivered to B. Williams, Assembly Member, National Assembly for Wales.

2009       Mind the Gap: Rural Health in Historical Context. Report delivered to the Rural Development Fund, Cardiff, Wales.

2008       Summary of Evidence: Teen Pregnancy and Public Health Initiatives in Wales. Report delivered to National Assembly for Wales and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. (Embargoed)

2008       Analysis of Internal Revenue Code (Public Law 110-245) Section 7871 vis-à-vis the Federal Recognition Application of (Tribe A). Report submitted to Dr. John Moore and the Tribal Council of (Tribe A) in support of the Tribe’s Federal recognition application.

2008       Analysis of the Council Minutes of (Tribe A), 1945-1980. Report submitted to Dr. John Moore and the Tribal Council of (Tribe A) in support of the Tribe’s Federal recognition application.

2008       Summary and Analysis of Evidence: Bureau of American Ethnology Materials held by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Research report delivered to Dr. John Moore.

2007       Felony Forensic Division V: Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Alternative Courts: A Preliminary Research Assessment. Report delivered to the Court Administrator, Eighth Circuit.

2007       Matrix Analysis of the Annual Reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs regarding (Tribe C). Report submitted to Native American Rights Fund.

2007       (Tribe B) Data from the Annual Reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs: Supplemental. Report submitted to Native American Rights Fund.

2007       (Tribe B) Data from the Annual Reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1890-1970. Report submitted to Native American Rights Fund.

2005       Legal and Political Analysis of (Tribe A’s) Application to the Governor of Virginia and the Tribe’s subsequent Counter-petition Against the Governor’s Dismissal.  Report submitted to Dr. John Moore and the Tribal Council of (Tribe A) in support of the Tribe’s Federal recognition application.

2005       Analysis of the Historical Record: Laws of the (Tribe A) Indians since European Contact. Report submitted to Dr. John Moore in support of the (Tribe A’s) Federal Recognition application.

2005       Report: Law and Analogous Forms of Social Order and Control: Evidence of Law-like Behavior in the Absence of a Positive Authority. Report submitted to Dr. John Moore in support of expert testimony.

2005       Report: Analysis of the Testimony and Evidence Submitted by the Crown’s Expert Witness (Y) in the case __ v. Her Majesty the Queen. Report submitted to Dr. John Moore and Plaintiffs’ Attorneys.

2005       Comparative Analysis of Health Care Infrastructures among Native American Tribal Polities. Report delivered to the Rural Assistance Center.

2005       Report: National Citizenship Histories and Laws Regarding Native Americans and First Nations. Litigation support report submitted to Dr. John Moore, Plaintiffs’ Attorneys, and Plaintiffs/Appellants in ongoing litigation.

2005       Report: Notes on the Rebuttal Testimony of the Crown’s Expert Witness (X). Report submitted to Dr. John Moore and Plaintiff’s attorneys.

2004       Corrupted Icons, Captured Tradition, and the Siege Mentality: A Report on an Ethnographic Inquiry into the Nature of Relations on the Seminary Campus. Report delivered to Reverend Nicholas Triantafilou, President of Hellenic College and Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology.

2002       Summary and Analysis of the Proceedings of the International Conference on Orthodoxy, Religious Pluralism, and Globalization. Report delivered to Rev. Dr. Emmanuel Clapsis, Dean of Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, and the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches.

2000       Osteometric and Individuating Analysis of the Sternal End of R4 Specimens (n=64): Results of a Multiyear Investigation. Report delivered to Dr. Gary E. Dale, Montana State Medical Examiner.

2000       A Cohort Analysis of Native Health in Montana: Institutional Failures of the Indian Health Service and its Effects. Report delivered to Dr. Gregory Campbell.

1998       Shoshone-Bannock Health Care Experiences: Summary of Qualitative Research Project. Report delivered to the Shoshone-Bannock Tribal Council.

1992       Language Revitalization and the Ethnopolitics of Language Use among the Nez Perce of . Report submitted to Dr. Jan Thomas and the Nez Perce Tribal Executive.

1990       Report: Analysis of an Extreme Case of Osteopetrosis in Historical Remains. Missoula, MT: University of Montana; and Missoula, MT: Montana State Medical Examiner’s Office.

1990       Skeletal Analysis of Remains from the Old Missoula County Poorhouse. Missoula, MT: City of Missoula.

1988-2001            I have also authored or co-authored over 250 forensic, archaeological, and historical reports for the Montana State Medical Examiner; local, state, and federal law enforcements agencies; and local historical societies.

PRESENTATIONS AND RELATED ACTIVITIES

2012      Chair and Session Co-Organizer: SOVEREIGNTY, AUTONOMY, MOBILITY: STRATEGIES FOR NAVIGATING NEOLIBERALIZING LEGAL AND POLITICAL WORLDS. Panel proposal submitted for inclusion in the annual conference of the Southeastern Conference of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS), to be held at the University of Florida, March 2012.

2012    "Democratization, Legalization, and Human Rights in the Atlantic Hemisphere: A Semiotic Analysis of Constitutional and Neoliberal Practices." Paper submitted for presentation at the annual SECOLAS conference, March 2012. 

2011    Chair and Session Co-Organizer: TRACES OF DEVELOPMENT: CONCEPTUAL LEGACIES AND THE MAINTENANCE OF INEQUALITIES IN SOCIAL INTERVENTION. Invited session of the annual conference of the American Anthropological Association, Montreal, Canada, November 16-20, 2011.

2011    “Communities of Deprivation in Europe’s Regions: Social Justice and Regeneration in Glasgow, Belfast, and Cardiff.” Paper to be presented at the annual conference of the American Anthropological Association, Montreal, Canada, November 16-20, 2011.

2011    “Historical Epistemology, Parliamentary Sovereignty, and Constitutional Change in the United Kingdom.” Paper accepted for presentation at the annual conference of the Law and Society Association, San Francisco, CA., June 2-5, 2011. [withdrawn]

2010    “From Mind to Brain: The Implications of a Neuro-Ontology for Policy and Law.” Paper accepted for presentation at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society and the European Neuroscience and Society Network Joint International Conference, Neurosociety…What is it with the Brain These Days?, December 7-8, 2010, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

2010     “Complexity, Uncertainty, and Modeling: Examining and Reconfiguring Conceptual Problematics.” Paper presented at the Mellon Sawyer Seminar 2009-2010, Modeling Futures: Understanding Risk and Uncertainty Final Conference: Challenging Models in the Face of Uncertainty, September 28-30, 2010, University of Cambridge.

2009       Invited lecture: “Ethnicity, Mental Illness and Qualitative Research in Britain.” Center for Social Justice. Paper delivered at the Center’s Headquarters in London as part of the Social Justice in Britain Lecture Series.  

2009       “Deliberative Escamotage: Procedural Sleights of Hand and the Exclusion of Key Interests in the Reform of the National Health Service in Wales.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 17-21, 2009.

2008       “Devolution and Health Care Reform in Wales: Adding a European Dimension of Non-Binding Normative Principles and Related Forms of Legality.” Paper accepted for presentation at the biennial conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 26-30, 2008. [withdrawn]

2007       Chair and Session Co-Organizer: DIFFERENTIATED JUSTICE. Invited session of the annual conference of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., Nov 28- Dec. 02, 2007.

2006       “The Materialization of Fiscal Theory: Practice and Effects in the National Health Service in Wales.” Paper presented at the biennial conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, Bristol, U.K. September 18-21, 2006.

2005       “European State Responses to Immigration Flows: Citizenship Law and the Maintenance of Global Hierarchy.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the Law and Society Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2-5, 2005.

2004       “Cobell v. Norton: A Critique of Federal Indian Law and Policy.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the Law and Society Association, Chicago, Illinois, May 27-30, 2004.

2003       “Notes from the Seminary: Observations on ‘Official’ Religion in the Greek Orthodox Church in America.” Paper presented at the biannual conference of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion, Providence, Rhode Island, April 21-23, 2003.

1997       “Methodological Problems in Forensic Anthropology and Case Writing.” Paper presented at the Northwest Association of Forensic Scientists Workshop on Forensic Anthropology, Missoula, Montana, April 30, 1997.

1993       “Methodological Problems Associated with Forensic Analysis: A Peculiar Case Study.” Paper presented at the 74th annual meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Missoula, Montana.

1993       “A Case of Osteopetrosis in a Cranium and Right Tibia from the Missoula County Poorhouse Cemetery in Montana.” Paper presented at the 74th annual meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Missoula, Montana.