John J. Dougherty

Postdoctoral Scholar, 2014-16
Ph.D., Ethnic Studies, University of California-Berkeley, 2014
M.A., Ethnic Studies, University of California-Berkeley, 2009
B.A., Anthropology, Portland State University, 2007

John J. Dougherty is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies at University of California-Berkeley in May 2014. His primary academic interests include federal Indian law and policy, environmental history, natural resource management, and the American West in the 20th century, with a particular geographic focus on the Columbia River Basin.

His book project, Flooded by Progress: Law, Natural Resources, and Native Rights in the Postwar Pacific Northwest, examines the shifting legal status of Native American lands, natural resources, and treaty rights in the Pacific Northwest from the 1940s to the present. In particular, his works seeks to use environmental history and natural resource management policies as a way to narrate dramatic changes in federal Indian law and policy, and the emerging role of Native communities in regional environmental politics.

John was born and raised in Portland, Oregon.  

Awards

  • University of California Dissertation Fellow, University of California-Berkeley, 2013-2014
  • Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of California-Berkeley, 2013
  • Graduate Research Award, Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues, University of California-Berkeley, 2012
  • Graduate Research Award, Center for Race & Gender, University of California-Berkeley, 2012
  • Doctoral Completion Fellowship, University of California-Berkeley, 2011-2012

Courses

Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Change in the North American West

Publications

  1. Dougherty, John J. “’Talk the Language of the Larger World’: Fishing Wars, Natural Resources, and the Birth of the Sovereignty Movement in the Postwar Pacific Northwest.” Western Legal History, Volume 27:1 (2015).
  2. Article: ‘Talk the Language of the Larger World’: Fishing Wars, Natural Resources, and the Birth of the Sovereignty Movement in the Postwar Pacific Northwest.”