Thomas Skidmore
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Thomas Elliott Skidmore (July 22, 1932, in Troy, Ohio – June 11, 2016) was an American historian and scholar who specialized in Brazilian history.[http://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/thomas-skidmore-1932-2016-tribute Thomas Skidmore (1932-2016): A Tribute]. Latin America Centre. University of Oxford.
Biography
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 received a second B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1956 and a master's degree in 1959. He obtained his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1960 with a thesis on the German Chancellor Leo von Caprivi.{{cite web |url=http://dl.lib.brown.edu/libweb/collections/skidmore/bio.html |title=Thomas E. Skidmore Collection |accessdate=2009-07-08}}
His attention shifted to South America after the Cuban Revolution. His Harvard post-doctorate focused on Brazil. In 1967 he published Politics in Brazil: 1930-64, An Experiment in Democracy.
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)."Skidmore, Thomas Elliott," in Historians of Latin America in the United States, 1965: Biobibliographies of 680 Specialists. Ed. Howard F. Cline. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1966, 83. In 1966, Skidmore joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He became a full professor in 1968. In 1986, Skidmore moved to Brown University.
Selected bibliography
- Politics in Brazil 1930–1964: An Experiment in Democracy (Oxford University Press, 1967)
- Black Into White: Race and Nationality in Brazilian Thought (Oxford University Press, 1974)
- Modern Latin America, with Peter H. Smith and James N. Green (Oxford University Press, multiple editions, 1984–2014)
- The Politics of Military Rule in Brazil: 1964–1985 (1988)
- Television, Politics, and the Transition to Democracy in Latin America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, ed.)
- “Bi-Racial U.S.A. vs Multi-Racial Brazil: Is the Contrast Still Valid?,” Journal of Latin American Studies 25, no. 2 (1993): 373-385
- Brazil: Five Centuries of Change (Oxford University Press, 1999)
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