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DUANE CHAMPAGNE , Ph.D.

Professor, Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

eMail: champagn@ucla.edu
Office: 264 HAINES
Phone: 310-825-1313

Ph.D., 1982. Harvard University, Sociology

M.A., 1975, North Dakota State University, Sociology

B.A., 1973, North Dakota State University, Mathematics

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Positions Held

  • Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, 1997-present
  • Associate Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, 1991-1997
  • Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, 1984-1991
  • Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1983-1984
  • Research Fellow, Harvard University, 1982-1983
  • Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, 1981-1982

Research

My interests focus on processes of social change and institutionalization. Empirically, I have looked at institutional change and variation among native American societies and their social, economic and political responses to Western influences (i.e. incorporation into the world system, geopolitical competition and trans-societal cultural interactions). Other related interests include theory, historical and comparative analysis, and fieldwork.

Selected Publications

American Indian Societies: Strategies and Conditions of Political and Cultural Survival, Cambridge, MA: Cultural Survival Inc. 1989.

Social Order and Political Change: Constitutional Governments among the Cherokee, The Choctaw, and Chickasaw and the Creek, Stanford University, 1992.

The Native North American Almanac, Second Edition. Detroit, Gale Research Inc., 2001.

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