Rani-Henrik Andersson

Dr. Rani-Henrik Andersson served as the interim McDonnell Douglas Chair, Professor of American Studies at the University of Helsinki Finland during 2014-2016. In 2017 he was appointed a CORE Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and a University Lecturer of North American Studies at the University of Helsinki. He author or editor of ten books including the Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890 (University of Nebraska Press, 2008), and Whirlwind Passed Through Our Country: Lakota Voices of the Ghost Dance that focuses on Lakota accounts of the Ghost Dance and the Wounded Knee Massacre (University of Oklahoma Press 2018). His most recently published book edited with Boyd Cothran and Saara Kekki is entitled Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature: Indigenous People and Protected Spaces of Nature (Helsinki University Press 2021). His newest book with david C. Posthumus is Lakȟóta: an Indigenous History is published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 2022.