A member of UW faculty since 1997, Lynn Thomas is an experienced administrator and campus leader, having previously served as Chair of the Department of History from 2012 - 2015. She has also served on the faculty board for the Simpson Center for the Humanities, on the Royalty Research Fund selection committee, and on several departmental review and chair search committees. Nationally, Thomas has served as a co-editor of the Journal of African History, and on fellowship selection committees for the National Endowment for the Humanities, Social Science Research Council, and National Center for the Humanities. \

Research/Teaching Areas: Africa, Comparative Colonialisms, Comparative Gender, Empire and Colonialism, Gender, Historiography, Medicine, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology, Women