Faculty and Staff

Dr. Jace Weaver
Professor, UGA Department of Religion
JACE WEAVER has been part of Studies Abroad Europe since Summer 2004, teaching courses that have traveled to Switzerland, Italy and Spain. He is Professor of Religion, Director of the Institute of Native American Studies, and Adjunct Professor of Law. He holds two doctorates, a JD from Columbia Law School of Columbia University and a Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary in New York. Dr. Weaver’s work in Native American Studies is highly interdisciplinary, though focusing primarily on three areas: religious traditions, literature, and law. He is the author or editor of eight books, including That the People Might Live: Native American Literatures and Native American Community, Other Words: American Indian Literature, Law, and Culture, and Turtle Goes to War: Of Military Commissions, the Constitution and American Indian Memory. His most recent publication is American Indian Literary Nationalism, written with Robert Warrior, Craig Womack, and Simon Ortiz.

In 2003, Dr. Weaver won the Wordcraft Award for Best Creative Non-Fiction from the Wordcraft Circle of Native American Writers for Other Words. In 1999, he won the Portfolio Award for excellence in teaching resources from the journal Media and Methods for his book on CD-ROM, American Journey: The Native American Experience. He has also been nominated for the Oklahoma and Connecticut Book Awards.

Laura Adams Weaver
Instructor, UGA Department of English
LAURA ADAMS WEAVER has been involved with Studies Abroad Europe since Summer 2004, participating in courses taught in Switzerland, Italy and Spain. She is an instructor in the English Department and the Institute for Native American Studies. Completing a Ph.D. in English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, she specializes in Native American and African American literatures and Narrative Theory. She is currently at work on a dissertation entitled, "Keeping Time: Temporality in American Indian Storytelling," which focuses on the narrative strategies through which American Indian writers resist the myth of the "vanishing" Indian and reassert a contemporaneous indigenous presence in the story of American identity. Ms. Weaver received her B.A. and M.A. in English from California State University, Stanislaus. Her most recent publication is “Indigenous Migrations, Pilgrimage Trails, and Sacred Geography" co-authored with Jace Weaver, in Cave, City and Eagle's Nest (University of New Mexico Press, 2007). She is also the author of several articles about Native American culture, including "Native American Creation Stories," in Encyclopedia of Women and Religion, edited by Rosemary Skinner Keller and Rosemary Radford Reuther (Indiana University Press, 2006), which won the 2006 Waldo G. Leland Prize for best reference tool in the field of history.

Timothy Anderson
Local Program Coordinator, Granada
TIMOTHY ANDERSON has served as the Local Program Coordinator for the Spain Component of Studies Abroad Europe since its inception in Summer 2006.  A graduate of Baylor University (Waco, Texas), he is an archaeologist based in Granada, Spain. He worked for many years in Switzerland with the Archaeological Service of the Canton of Fribourg. He is the author of two books about sites he dug: Artisans à la Campagne (Craftsmen in the Countryside) in 2003, a Roman site with a quern quarry, a smithy and a road, and Une Ferme Gauloise à Courgevaux (A Celtic farm at Courgevaux) in 2007, a rural settlement dating to the end of the Iron Age. He currently coordinates a millstone quarry research group (“Molares”) in Spain and is enrolled in the doctoral program of the University Pierre Mendès France II (Grenoble, France) studying millstone quarries in the South of Spain.

José Javier León
Visiting Professor, Granada
JOSÉ JAVIER LEÓN has been a guest lecturer for the Studies Abroad Europe program in Spain since its inception in Summer 2006.

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