Dir., Alaska Coastal Rainforest Ctr. - Tom Thornton

Tom Thornton
Director of the Alaska Coastal Rainforest Center
School of Arts and Sciences
11066 Auke Lake Way Juneau, AK 99801
Website: uas.alaska.edu/arts_sciences/index.html
Dr. Thornton earned a bachelor’s degree in Sociology/Anthropology from Swarthmore
College and both a master’s degree and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of
Washington. He previously lived in Juneau and taught at UAS. He currently is an associate
professor and senior research fellow at University of Oxford in the United Kingdom
where he has worked in the Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and
the Environment. He is also a fellow of the Global Diversity Foundation’s Global Environmental
Summer Academy in Bern, Switzerland.