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Tom Thornton joined the Department of Global Studies at SLU in January 2001
after a decade in Juneau, Alaska, where he taught at the University of Alaska,
worked as a resource specialist for the Alaska Department of Fish &
Game, and conducted a wide range of field research. His Ph.D. is in
sociocultural anthropology and his research interests are primarily in
Native North America, especially among the Native peoples of Alaska and
Canada; he has also lived and worked in mainland China and Taiwan.
Currently, he has two broad areas of interest: one is subsistence
economies (particularly among indigenous peoples) and their relationship
capitalist economies at the local, national, and global levels; the
other is in the human sense of place and its many cultural dimensions
and reconfigurations in a rapidly changing and increasingly
interconnected “global village.” In addition, he does collaborative work
with tribes and other Native entities on cultural and natural resource
management issues affecting their sacred places and subsistence
lifeways. These interests inform his teaching in very direct ways,
especially GS 280 (Culture and Ecology) and GS 331 (Sense of Place).
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