Russell Thornton (born 20 February 1942) is a

Cherokee The Cherokee (; , or ) people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States. Prior to the 18th century, they were concentrated in their homelands, in towns along river valleys of what is now southwestern ...

- American anthropologist and professor of

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

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, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school then known as the southern branch of the Ca ...

, who is known for his studies of the

population history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas Population figures for the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before European European colonization of the Americas, colonization have been difficult to establish. Estimates have varied widely from as low as 8 million to as many as 100 million, ...

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).

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 Florida State University (FSU or Florida State) is a Public university, public research university in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida and a preeminent university in the s ...

(1968) * Postdoctoral (Social Relations),

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

(1968–1969) * Postdoctoral (Demography),

University of Southern California The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in ...

(1980)

References

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