Rate My Professor William Garriott

William Garriott is Professor and Chair of the Law, Politics, and Society Program at Drake University, where he also serves as Director of the Center for the Humanities. He holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Princeton University and an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School. His research and teaching focus on the relationship between law, crime, and criminal justice, with specific interests in drugs, addiction, and policing. Professor Garriott teaches courses in the core Law, Politics, and Society (LPS) curriculum as well as elective courses such as Crime and Film, Drugs, Law, and Society, and Justice Reform.

Garriott is the author of Policing Methamphetamine: Narcopolitics in Rural America (New York University Press, 2011) and editor of The Anthropology of Police (Routledge, 2016). He co-edited Addiction Trajectories (Duke University Press, 2013) and has published articles in journals such as Medical Anthropology, Anthropological Theory, and Law & Social Inquiry. His scholarship has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. He formerly served as coeditor-in-chief of PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review and on the editorial board of Law and Social Inquiry, and currently co-edits the book series Police/Worlds: Studies in Security, Crime, and Governance with Cornell University Press. Garriott testified before the Pennsylvania state legislature during committee hearings on cannabis legalization and social equity programs. His public scholarship includes articles on cannabis legalization for The Conversation and a feature in the podcast Home Cooked: A Fifty Year History of Meth in America. He is completing a book on marijuana legalization and criminal justice reform for University of California Press as part of the California Series in Public Anthropology and leads collaborative research on deflection programs for individuals with substance use disorders in Iowa.