Biographical Note on Professor Jack Weatherford
Jack Weatherford is a New York Times bestselling author with books published in more than
twenty languages. He held the DeWitt Wallace Chair of Anthropology at Macalester College in
St. Paul, Minnesota and is on the editorial board of Lapham’s Quarterly. His most recent book is
Genghis Khan and God the Quest for God: How the Word’s Greatest Conqueror Gave us
Religious Freedom, which was preceded by The Secret History of the Mongol Queens, and by
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.
In May 2000 Jack Weatherford received an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from Chinggis
Khaan College in Mongolia, and later he was the commencement speaker and received honorary
degrees from Augsburg College in Minneapolis and from Macalester College in Saint Paul,
Minnesota. In 2006 he spoke at the United Nations at the request of Mongolia to honor the 800th
anniversary of the founding of the nation by Genghis Khan. In 2007 President Enkhbayar
Mongolia awarded him the Order of the Polar Star (Altan Gadas). And in 2010 President
Elbegdorj awarded him the National Friendship Medal.
In 2014 his book El Legado Indigena was published by the Cultural Foundation of the National
Bank of Bolivia for which he received the Order of the Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho, Antonio
José Sucre and was named Honorary Cultural Ambassador of Bolivia.
His writing has been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today,
Lapham’s Quarterly, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Utne Reader, Atlanta Journal &
Constitution, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Mongol Messenger and the
Mongol Daily News. He has lectured at more than one hundred universities, museums, and
corporations around the world including Harvard, Smithsonian, National Geographic Society,
American Indian Chamber of Commerce, American Renaissance Society, World History
Association, Federation of State Humanities Councils, World Press Institute, and the United
States Archives.
He holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, San Diego, with additional
graduate research at Frankfurt University in Germany and post-doctoral work at Duke
University, the American University of Cairo, and the Catholic University of Ecuador. He has
been a Kellogg Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow (Egypt), a Marshall Fellow (Germany), an American
Association for the Advancement of Science Congressional Fellow, and a National Endowment
for the Humanities Fellow.
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CURRICULUM VITAE for Jack McIver Weatherford
(Retired) DeWitt Wallace Professor of Anthropology, Macalester College
St. Paul, Minnesota 55105
1983 - 2012
Macalester College
1981 – 1982
American University
1978 - 1980
Assistant to Senator John Glenn
EDUCATION
1978
Post-doctoral
Policy Studies
Duke University
1977
Ph.D. & M.A
Anthropology
University of California, San Diego
1967
B.A.
Political Science
University of South Carolina
AWARDS AND HONORS
2014
Orden de Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho, Antonio José Sucre,
Casa de Independencia, Sucre, Bolivia
2008
Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Augsburg College (Minneapolis).
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2007
Altan Gadas, Order of the Polar Star for Service to the Mongol Nation, the highest
national award of Mongolia, awarded by the President.
2006
Delivered United Nations Lecture, “Chinggis Khaan and International Law”
in honor of the 800th anniversary of the founding of Mongolia. June 20.
2006
Shinjlekh Ukhaani Terguunii Ajiltan
Primary Scholar of Mongolia Award
Mongolian Minister of Education and Culture & Mongolian Academy of Sciences
2005
Minnesota Book Award
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Notable Book Award 2005
from Kiriyama Prize
2000
Honorary Doctorate of Humanities Chinggis Khaan College of Mongolia
1998
Ethnographer in Residence
Saint Mary’s College of Maryland
1994
Media Award
National Conference of Christians and Jews
1992
Anthropology in Media Award
American Anthropological Association
Minnesota Book Award
Native Roots
1990
Excellence in Anthropology and Journalism Award: Center for Anthro-Journalism
1989
Minnesota Book Award
Indian Givers
1986
Nu Sigma Phi
National Honor Society for Greek and Latin
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GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
1998
Bush Summer Travel and Research Grant
1991-1992 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
1989-1990 Wallace Faculty Development Grant
1989
Fulbright-Hays Fellowship in Egypt
1989-1993 Advisor to Leadership Fellowship program of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation
1987
Junior Sabbatical Grant, Joyce Foundation
1984-1987 W. K. Kellogg National Leadership Fellowship
1984
Bush Summer Research Grant
1978-1979 American Association for the Advancement of Science Congressional Fellowship
1977-1979 National Institutes of Mental Health Postdoctoral Fellowship
1976-1977 National Science Foundation Grant
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1975-1976 Fulbright-Marshall Doctoral Fellowship
1974
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Fellowship
1974
Council for European Studies Travel Grant
1973-1974 Sara Armstrong Graduate Fellowship
1972-1973 NIMH Traineeship in Social Conflict
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS & OFFICES
Editorial Board, Lapham’s Quarterly
American Anthropological Association
Authors Guild and Authors League
The Mongolia Society
World History Association
BOOKS
2016 Genghis Khan and God the Quest for God: How the Word’s Greatest Conqueror Gave
us Religious Freedom, New York: Viking. Translations scheduled for 2017 in Chinese
(simplified characters), Chinese (Taiwan, complex characters), Mongolia, and Korean.
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2010 The Secret History of the Mongol Queens. New York: Crown Publishers.
2004 Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. New York: Crown Publishers.
Paperback Edition: Three Rivers Press, New York, 2005.
Chinese Edition, Complex Characters: China Times, Taipei, Taiwan (2005).
Simplified Characters: Chongqing Publishers, Beijing (2006).
Greek Edition: Archetypo
Japanese Edition: NHK Broadcasting, Tokyo.
Korean Edition: Sakyejul Publishing, Seoul (2005).
Polish Edition: Bertlesmann Media
Russian Edition: AST Publishers, Moscow (2005).
Swedish Edition: Prisma, Stockholm (2005).
Turkish Edition: Inkilap Yayinlari, Istanbul (2005).
Spanish Edition: Ediciones Critica (2006)
Czech Edition: Jiri Buchal - BB/Art (2006)
Portuguese Edition: Editora Bertrand Brasil, Brazil
Serbian Edition: I.P. NNK International, Serbia
Romanian: Editura Corint
2003 Өнөөгийн Ертөнцийг Үндэслэгч Эзэн Чингэс Хаан
(Genghis Khan: Founder of the
Modern World). Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia: Chinggis Khaan College.
Second Edition, 2005
Classical Mongolian Edition, 2005
1997 The History of Money.
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New York: Crown Publishers. Paperback edition: New York: Three Rivers Press (1998).
German Edition: Zurich, Switzerland: Conzett Verlag
Spanish edition: Santiago, Chile: Andrés Bello Editorial (1999)
Swedish edition: Stockholm, Sweden: Leander & Malmsten (1998).
Chinese edition: Hong Kong: Business Weekly Press. (1998)
Russian edition: Moscow, Russia: Terra Publishers (2001).
Bulgarian edition: Sofia, Bulgaria (2001)
Portuguese edition: Sao Paulo, Brazil: Publico-alvo (1999).
Bahasa, Indonesian edition: PT Bentang Pustaka (2005)
Mongolian: Chinggis Khaan University (2006)
1994 Savages and Civilization: Who Will Survive?
New York: Crown Publishers. Paperback edition: New York: Ballantine (1995).
Slovakian Edition: Bratislava, Slovakia: Kalligram Press. (Pending).
1991 Native Roots: How the Indians Enriched America.
New York: Crown Publishers. Paperback edition: New York: Ballantine, 1992.
1988 Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas transformed the World.
New York: Crown Books. Paperback edition: New York: Ballantine, 1989.
Gli Indiani Ci Hanno Dato Italian edition: Milan: Ugo Mursia Editore SpA., 1993.
Ce Que Nous Devons Aux Indiens D'Amerique
French edition: Paris: Albin Michel Publishers, 1993.
Das Erbe der Indiander: Wie die neue Welt Europa verändert hat.
German edition: Munich: Eugen Diederichs Verlag, 1995.
Second German Edition: Komet
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Japanese edition: Tokyo: Papyrus Publishers, 1996.
El Legado Indígena: De cómo los indios americanos transformaron el mundo
Spanish edition: Barcelona, Spain: Andrés Bello Editorial (2000). Reissued by the
Central Bank of Bolivia in 2014.
Indiajanski Darovatelji - Kako su Indijanci obiju Amerika preobrazili svijet
Croatian Edition: Zagreb, MISL (2003)
1987 Narcoticos en Bolivia y los Estados Unidos. La Paz, Bolivia: Los Amigos del Libro.
1986 Porn Row. New York: Arbor House.
Japanese edition: Tokyo: Kousaido Shuppan, 1989.
1981 Tribes on the Hill. New York: Rawson-Wade (Scribners).
Revised editions: South Hadley, Massachusetts: Bergin & Garvey, 1985.
Hungarian edition: Törzsek a "Dombon" Az Egyesült Államok Kongresszusa:
rítus és valóság (trans. Bódis Krisztina) Budapest: Százádveg, 2005.
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
2006 “The Active Participant-Observer: Applying Social Role Analysis to Participant
Observation.” Co-authored with Jeffrey C. Johnson & Christine Avenarius. Field
Methods, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 111-134.
2002 “Chingis Khaan Tenger bolson khiigeed kherkhen ongolson tukhai,” (Chingis Khan’s
Ascension to Heaven), with Kh. Lkhagvasuren. Chinggis Khaan Sudlal. (Journal of
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Genghis Khan Studies) Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 4, pages 45-54.
2001 Chinggis khaan and Nehru, Chinggis Khaan Sudlal. (Journal of Genghis Khan Studies)
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 3, pages 1-16.
2001 “The Culinary Fantasy of the Andes,” Spirit of the Earth: Native Cooking from Latin
America, Beverly Cox & Martin Jacobs. N. Y.: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, p. 142-148.
2001
First European Descriptions of Chinggis Khaan and the Mongols, Chinggis Khaan
Sudlal. (Journal of Genghis Khan Studies) Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. 1, 2.
2000 The Influence of Chinggis Khaan on World History, Chinggis Khaan Sudlal. (Journal of
Genghis Khan Studies) Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. 1, 1.
2000 Peniaze a pád Rímskej ríše, OS: Fórum Občianskej Spoločnosti, Slovakia, June.
2000 Blood on the Steppes: Ethnicity, Power, and Conflict in Central Asia, Conformity and
Conflict, James P. Spradley & David W. McCurdy (ed.), Boston: Little, Brown.
1998 Our Money, Our Selves, Anthropology Newsletter, April.
1998 Review of Struggle of the Poor: Neighborhood Organization and Clientelist Practice in a
Quito Squatter Settlement by Gerrit Burgwal, American Anthropologist, 100, 2,
pp. 542-543.
1997 Money and Change in World Perspective, General Anthropology, III-2, Spring.
1996
Review of O Brave new Words! Native American Loanwords in Current English,
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by Charles L. Cutler. Plains Anthropologist, May.
1996 Impact of American Indian Civilizations on Europe and the World, The Encyclopedia of
the American Indian, Frederick E. Hoxie (ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
1994 Cultural Chaos and the Crisis of Civilization, Anthropology Newsletter, October.
1994 Kinship and Power on Capitol Hill, Conformity and Conflict,
James P. Spradley & David W. McCurdy (editors), Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
1994 "Producing a Trade Book, Media Anthropology: Informing Global Citizens,
Susan L. Allen (editor). Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey.
1993 Cultural Castaways, Icarus, Summer, 11.
1993 Tribal Politics in Washington, Political and Legal Anthropology Review. Vol 16, No. 1.
1992 Wie die Indianer die Welt veränderten, Entwicklung, Nr. 37, July.
1991
Review of Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis,
by Renato Rosaldo. Native American Quarterly.
1991
Review of District Leaders by Rachel Sady. American Anthropologist, Vol 93, No. 3.
1991
Indian Season in American Schools, The Social Studies.
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1998
Review of New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America
By Colin G. Calloway. The William and Mary Quarterly.
1987-1990 Associate Editor of Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.
1989 Review of The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community
by Catherine Allen. Anthropological Quarterly.
1989 Review of Cocaine: White Gold Rush in Peru by E. Morales, Anthropologica 31:1.
1987 Cocaine and the economic deterioration of Bolivia, Conformity and Conflict,
James P. Spradley & David W. McCurdy (editors), Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
1987 Big Men on Capitol Hill, Conformity and Conflict, James P. Spradley
& David W. McCurdy (editors), Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
1987 Language in Political Anthropology, Power and Discourse, Leah Kedar (editor),
Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex Publishers.
1987 Tribes on the Hill: Kinship and Politics in the United States Congress,
Cultural Anthropology, Serena Nanda, Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing.
1986 Die Zerrüttung Boliviens durch Kokain, Freibeuter 28.
1986 The Clans on Capitol Hill, Contemporary Cultural Anthropology,
Michael D. Howard, Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
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1982 Kongresskultur, Freibeuter, 12. Berlin, Germany.
1981 Labor and domestic life cycles in a German community, Dimensions of an
Anthropology of Aging, Christine L. Fry (editor), South Hadley, Mass: Bergin & Garvey.
1980 Life Cycle and the American Family, Public Policy and the American Family,
Z.I. Giraldo. Massachusetts: Lexington Books (D.C. Heath & Co.).
1980 Millennium of Modernization, Village Viability in Contemporary Society, P.C. Reining
& Barbara Lenkerd (editors). AAAS Volume 31, Boulder, Colorado: Westview.
1978 Deutsche Kultur, amerikanish betrachtet, Deutschland: Das Kind mit zwei Köpfen,
Hans C. Buch (editor), Berlin: Klaus Wagenbach Verlag.
1975 Anthropology and Nannies, Man: Royal Anthropological Society. Vol 10. No. 2, June.
NEWSPAPER, MAGAZINE, AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
2006 Newspaper series of articles on Genghis Khan published in Mongolian in the UB Times
and in English in the UB Post, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
2006 “Genghis Khan: Law and Order,” Los Angeles Times. Dec 29.
2000 A Scholarly Quest to Understand Genghis Khan, The Chronicle of Higher Education.
April 14, page B10. Also serialized in The Mongol Messenger April - 26 May 3, 2000.
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1999 Mongolerna söker sin plats i världsekonomin,
(Mongolia seeks its place in the world economy) Dolly, April.
1999 The Mongols from the Silk Route to Cyberspace, Udriin Sonin. Mongolia, May 4.
1998 Cash in a Cul-De-Sac, Discover. October, 19, 10.
1998 Euron redan gammalmodig när pengarna blir digitala, (The Euro will already be out
dated when cash goes digital.) Stockholm, Sweden: Dolly. August I, 1.
1998 Let Common Cents Prevail on Wall Street, The Wall Street Journal, March 26.
1998 Money Talks. Here’s What It Says About Us, Washington Post. January 4.
1997 Review of Hamilton’s Blessing: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Our National Debt
by John Steele Gordon. Civilization, February, 1997.
1997 How Rome built a new ballpark, Star Tribune. Feb 9.
The Plastic curtain, Washington Post, Feb 18.
Dump Bronze Age bucks for electronic money, USA Today, April 24.
1994 Tribal people could teach us civilization, St. Paul Pioneer Press. Mar 17.
1994 US policy on rights hypocritical, Boston Herald, Feb 15.
1994 Captain Cook's Legacy, Los Angeles Times, January 18.
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1994 What a year for the Natives, Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 21.
1992 The Grand Exchange Map, (Senior Consultant), National Geographic, February.
1992 Review of In the Spirit of the Earth: Rethinking History and Time by
Calvin Martin Luther. Hungry Mind Review, Winter.
1992 Among the Gifts of Native America, Native Peoples, Fall.
1992 A Veterans Day salute to dreams deferred, San Francisco Examiner, November 9.
1992 Religious Freedom still eludes Native Americans,
Star Tribune, Feb 20.
1991 Preserving our nation's past to protect its future, The Miami Herald, Sunday April 14.
1990 Image and Idea in Nonfiction, A View from the Loft, Vol 13, #2, September.
1989 Thanksgiving Menu Subject to Change, Detroit News, November 23, 1989.
1989 Honoring Columbus honors legacy of slave-trading, genocide,
St. Paul Pioneer Press, Oct. 10; Baltimore Sun, Oct. 6, Toronto Sun, Oct 12.
1989 The real drug war is in the U.S., Atlanta Constitution, Sept. 27.
1989 Indians and the 4th. The Evening Sun, Baltimore, July 4.
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1986 Political birds of Guatemala, Hungry Mind Review, I.
1988 The World Owes a Debt to the Indian Givers, Detroit News
and Cleveland Plain Dealer Nov. 24.
1981 Capitol Hill Clans, The New York Times, Sunday, December 13.
1981 Playing tribal politics in Congress, Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colorado. Dec 6.
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