Russell Thornton

Russell Thornton
Born	20 February 1942

Academic background
Alma mater	Florida State University Harvard University University of Southern California
Academic work
Discipline	anthropology
Institutions	University of California at Los Angeles
Main interests	population history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

Russell Thornton (born 20 February 1942) 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.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Publications

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).

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^[4]

^ "A New Ward Churchill Controversy". Inside Higher Ed. 9 February 2005. Archived from the original on 20 October 2005.
^ "Faculty". University of California, Los Angeles.
^ Mann, Charles C. (March 2002). "1491". The Atlantic.
^ "Russell Thornton". UCLA Department of Anthropology. 5 August 2020. Retrieved 2022-11-30.

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