Thomas Skidmore

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

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.

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.

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, 1984–2005)
 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)

References

Category:1932 births
Category:2016 deaths
Category:Brazilianists
Category:American historians
Category:Harvard University alumni
Category:Denison University alumni
Category:Fulbright Scholars
Category:Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford
Category:Brown University faculty
Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Category:People from Troy, Ohio
Category:Guggenheim Fellows