Thomas A. Stidham
Human Evolution Research Center
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
USA
Current address:
Department of Biology
Texas A&M University
3258 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843
USA

Thomas Stidham received his B.S. in geology at the University of Texas. His senior thesis was on Ordovician graptolite biostratigraphy in west Texas. For his graduate research at the University of California at Berkeley, he studied the systematics and paleobiology of the extinct wading ducks (Presbyornithidae) and their relationship to the ecology and evolution of crown clade birds. After completing his dissertation, he was a postdoc in the Laboratory for Human Evolutionary Studies in Berkeley and began research on the evolution of birds in Africa. In 2004, Thomas joined the faculty in the Department of Biology at Texas A&M University. Currently, he is an assistant professor, director of lower division instruction in biology, a member of the faculty of ecology and evolutionary biology, and a research associate at the Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection. He continues work on Paleogene birds, but also is researching birds from fossil hominid-bearing sites and deposits across the Old World. His other interests extend into fossil and extant orthopteroid insects, and he currently is describing several new species.