Thomas Christopher Garvin MRIA (7 July 1943[1] – 17 October 2024) was an Irish political scientist and historian.
Garvin was an alumnus of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC.
His Doctor of Philosophy degree was awarded by the University of Georgia in 1974 for his thesis Political Parties in a Dublin Constituency: A Behavioural Analysis.
His academic career was marked by sabbaticals in the USA (where he spent extended periods at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC; Colgate University; Mount Holyoke College; the University of Georgia; and, as Burns Professor, Boston College).
Garvin retired on 1 September 2008 after working for 41 years in what became the UCD School of Politics and International Relations.