Tom Cheetham

Tom graduated from Connecticut College in 1974 with a B.A. in philosophy, magna cum laude, with coursework in history and the history of art, and received the Susanne Langer Award for Achievement in Philosophy. Among the most long-lasting influences were his reading of Hegel, Heidegger, Ernst Cassirer and Erwin Panofsky, as well as the ideas and the teaching of historian F. Edward Cranz.

After several years as a carpenter and woodworker and two abortive attempts at a graduate degree in philosophy he returned to school in natural science. His initial intention to pursue a degree in physics was abandoned when his wife opened his eyes to the diversity of the biological world. Tom received a PhD in systematic entomology and a Graduate Research Excellence Award from Iowa State University in 1987. Tom published a number of minor papers and his dissertation on the evolution and morphology of the Siphonaptera appeared as a book that won plaudits from the two leading researchers in the field: the Hon. Miriam Rothschild, and Dr. Robert Traub of the Smithsonian Institution.

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