Thomas Skidmore

Thomas Elliott Skidmore (July 22, 1932, in Troy, Ohio – June 11, 2016) was an American historian and scholar who specialized in Brazilian history.

[1] Skidmore graduated in political science and philosophy in 1954 from Denison University.

He received a Fulbright Fellowship to study philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford where he met his wife Felicity.

He obtained his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1960 with a thesis on the German Chancellor Leo von Caprivi.

[2] He began his teaching career at Harvard as an instructor (1960-61), research fellow in Latin American studies (1961-64), and then assistant professor (1964-66).