In Remembrance: Robert F. Thompson ’55, ’65PhD Died on November 29 2021

Robert Farris Thompson, professor emeritus of African American studies and the former Colonel John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art, passed away on November 29, 2021, at the age of 88. Known as “Master T,” he was the head of Timothy Dwight College for 32 years and a member of the Yale faculty for over half a century. 

A full tribute appeared in YaleNews on December 1, 2021.

For a Yale Alumni Magazine report on Thompson's death, see Milestones; and to read the magazine's 2010 feature on the professor, see "Professor of Mambo."