Russell Thornton facts for kids

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.

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 (1968–1969)
• Postdoctoral (Demography), University of Southern California (1980)