Russell Thornton
Russell Thornton is a Cherokee-American anthropologist and professor of anthropology at the University of California at Los Angeles, who is known for his studies of the population history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
Publications
- 1986 We Shall Live Again: The 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance Movements as Demographic Revitalization.
- 1987 American Indian Holocaust and Survival.
- 1990 The Cherokees: A Population History.
- 1998 Editor. Studying Native America: Problems and Prospects.
- 2007 Co-editor with Candace S. Greene. The Year the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian.
Awards & grants
- College of Social Sciences Sesquicentennial Lecture, The Florida State University, 2001
- Distinguished Professorship, UCLA, 2004-present
- The Hail Lecture, Brown University, 2007
Education
- Ph.D., Sociology, Florida State University
- Postdoctoral, Harvard University
- Postdoctoral, University of Southern California