John J. Dougherty is a Senior Fellow in Comparative Ethnic Studies at the University of California-Berkeley. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University and a faculty member in History and Environmental Studies at Reed College. He received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 2014.
At UC Berkeley, he was a University of California Dissertation Fellow and an affiliated scholar with the Institute for the Study of Social Issues, the Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues, and the Center for Race & Gender. He was also awarded the campus-wide Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award for teaching a yearlong seminar on indigenous histories of the North American West.
His current book project, Flooded by Progress: Law, Natural Resources and Native Rights in the Postwar Pacific Northwest, is forthcoming from University of Washington Press. The book examines the shifting legal status of Native American lands, natural resources, and treaty rights in the Pacific Northwest from the 1940s to the present. An article from the book project was published in the academic journal, Western Legal History, in 2014.
