William Garriott is currently Professor and Chair of Drake University’s Law, Politics, and Society Program. He holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Princeton University and an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School. His research and teaching cut across disciplines, and focus on policing, drug policy, law and society, and criminal justice. Notable publications include Policing Methamphetamine: Narcopolitics in Rural America and edited collections like Addiction Trajectories and The Anthropology of Police. His articles have appeared in journals such as Medical Anthropology, Anthropological Theory and Law & Social Inquiry.
He is the former coeditor-in-chief of PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. He currently coedits the book series Police/Worlds: Studies in Security, Crime, and Governance with Cornell University Press. He is also on the editorial board of the journal Law & Social Inquiry.
He is in the process of completing a book on marijuana (cannabis) legalization and criminal justice reform. He is also involved in collaborative research on deflection programs for people with substance use disorders in Iowa.
His work has been supported by Grants from the National Science Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation.
At Drake he teaches core courses within the LPS curriculum along with elective courses such Law and Order, Crime and Film, Drugs, Law, and Society, and Justice Reform.
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