Russell Thornton

PROFESSOR

Ph.D., Florida State University 1968 (Sociology); Postdoctoral, Harvard University 1968-69 (Social Relations); Postdoctoral, University of Southern California 1980 (Demography)

Class Websites

Office: 306 Haines Hall
Phone: 310-825-7080
Fax: 310-206-7833
E-mail: rthornto@ucla.edu

Mailing Address:

Subfield

Socio-Cultural Anthropology

Research Interests

American Indian historical demography, American Indian revitalization movements, American Indian winter counts, contemporary American Indian issues.

Selected 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

College of Social Sciences Sesquicentennial Lecture, The Florida State University, 2001

Distinguished Professorship, UCLA, 2004-

The Hail Lecture (with Candace Greene), Brown University, 2007

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