Russell Thornton (born 20 February 1942) is a

Cherokee The Cherokee (; chr, ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯᎢ, translit=Aniyvwiyaʔi or Anigiduwagi, or chr, ᏣᎳᎩ, links=no, translit=Tsalagi) are one of the indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States. Prior to the 18th century, t ...

- American anthropologist and professor of

anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of be ...

at the

University of California at Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California ...

, who is known for his studies of the population history of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. His publications include: * 1986 We Shall Live Again: The 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance Movements as Demographic Revitalization (Cambridge University Press). * 1987 American Indian Holocaust and Survival (University of Oklahoma Press). * 1990 The Cherokees: A Population History (University of Nebraska Press). * 1998 Editor. Studying Native America: Problems and Prospects (University of Wisconsin Press). * 2007 Co-editor with Candace S. Greene. The Year the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian (University of Nebraska Press and the Smithsonian Institution).

Awards & Grants

* College of Social Sciences Sesquicentennial Lecture, The Florida State University, 2001 * Distinguished Professorship, UCLA, 2004-present * The Hail Lecture (with Candace Greene), Brown University, 2007

Education

* Ph.D., Sociology, Florida State University (1968) * Postdoctoral (Social Relations),

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

(1968–69) * Postdoctoral (Demography),

University of Southern California , mottoeng = "Let whoever earns the palm bear it" , religious_affiliation = Nonsectarian—historically Methodist , established = , accreditation = WSCUC , type = Private research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $8.1 ...

(1980)

References

1942 births Living people University of California, Los Angeles faculty Native American anthropologists Florida State University alumni {{US-anthropologist-stub