Thomas E. Sheridan (born 5 September 1951) is an anthropologist of Sonora, Mexico and the history and culture of Arizona and the Southwest.
He was selected a Distinguished Outreach Professor at the University of Arizona, and has been affiliated with the Department of Anthropology and the Southwest Center since 2003.
[1] He became interested in Northern Mexico and travelled there frequently for study, spending months in Bahía Kino in 1971.
For the first time, Spanish archival material is supplemented with oral traditions recounted by Hopi elders.
He describes this as merging the interests of scientists, environmentalists and land users, and as an effort to avoid "chewing up the West" through fragmentation and real estate development.