Jessica R. Cattelino

(PhD, New York University 2004) Assistant Professor of Anthropology and of the Social Sciences in the College, conducts research on indigenous sovereignty and citizenship, American public culture, and economy and value. She is completing a book based on research with Florida Seminoles about tribal casinos, High Stakes: Florida Seminole Gaming, Sovereignty, and the Social Meanings of Casino Wealth. She also sustains interests in gender, space and place, law, and cultural production. Her next ethnographic research project will investigate territoriality, citizenship, and the cultural politics of environment in the Florida Everglades.
email: jesscatt@uchicago.edu

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Publications:

2008 Termination Redux? Seminole Citizenship and Economy from Truman to Gaming. In B. Hosmer, ed., Harry Truman and Native Americans. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press (forthcoming).

2008 High Stakes: Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty. Duke University Press (in press).

2008 Indian Gaming in the United States. In Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 2, Contemporary Issues, Garrick Bailey, vol. ed., W.C. Sturtevant, general editor. Washington: Smithsocial Institution (in press).

2007 Florida Seminole Gaming and Local Sovereign Interdependency. In D. Cobb and L. Fowler, eds., Beyond Red Power: Rethinking Twentieth-Century American Indian Politics. Santa Fe , NM : School of American Research Press (in press).

2006 Florida Seminole Housing and the Social Meanings of Sovereignty. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 48(3):699-726. PDF © 2006 Society for Comparative Study of Society and History. Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press.

2005 Tribal Gaming and Indigenous Sovereignty, with Notes from Seminole Country. American Studies (Special isue on Indigenous People of the United States) 46(3/4):187-204; co-published in Indigenous Studies Today 1 (Fall 2005/Spring 2006).

2004 The Difference that Citizenship Makes: Civilian Crime Prevention on the Lower East Side. PoLAR (Political and Legal Anthropology Review) 27(1):114-137. PDF © 2004 PoLAR, UC Press, and AAA.

2004 Casino Roots: The Cultural Production of Twentieth-Century Seminole Economic Development. In B.C. Hosmer and C. O’Neill, eds., Native Pathways: Economic Development and American Indian Culture in the Twentieth Century. Boulder : University of Colorado Press, pp. 66-90. PDF / Entire edited volume

2004 (w/William Sturtevant) Florida Seminole and Miccosukee. In Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 14, Southeast. R.D. Fogelson, vol. ed., W.C. Sturtevant, general editor, Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 429-447.