Gordon Thomas

Last Updated March 29, 2005.

I was born in Marquette, Michigan and grew up in Iron Mountain, Michigan (in the Upper Peninsula). My family later moved to Alabama, where I graduated from high school in 1970. I then attended Emory University, graduating in 1974. I then spent almost four years in the Peace Corps in Cameroon, Africa, where I taught English to French-speaking high school students. I started grad school in 1978 at the University of Minnesota, earning my M.A. degree in 1982 and my Ph.D. in 1985. I met my wife, Dene Thomas, in grad school, and we both got jobs at the Univ. of Idaho in 1984. Since then, she has moved on to become president of Lewis-Clark State College. We now live in Lewiston, and I commute up to Moscow.

When I'm not working at the UI, I'm often occupied with my duties as the president's spouse at LCSC and as president of the Idaho-Washington Concert Chorale.