Professor, Religious Studies, and Director, Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life
University of California Santa Barbara
Greg Johnson is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has studied and participated in repatriation processes for more than twenty years. Johnson has published a monograph, Sacred Claims: Repatriation and Living Tradition (UVA 2007), and numerous articles and chapters on the topic, generally focusing on the sacred objects and cultural patrimony provisions of NAGPRA. His most recent repatriation-related publications include "Indigenous Sacred Objects After NAGPRA" (2020) and "Domestic Bones, Foreign Lands, and the Kingdom Come: Jurisdictions of Religion in Contemporary Hawai`i" (2021).