Tom Holm

Tom Holm (born 1946) is a professor in the Native American Studies program at the University of Arizona.

Holm is a registered citizen of the Cherokee Nation. He is also of Muskogee descent. Holm served in the United States Marines during the Vietnam War. He holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Oklahoma. Besides being part of the University of Arizona's Native American Studies program he was previously a professor of political science at that institution.

Among works by Holm are Strong Hearts, Wounded Souls: The Native American Veterans of the Vietnam War and The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs: Native Americans and Whites in the Progressive Era (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005). In 2008 a novel by him entitled Osage Rose was published.

Awards and nominations

In 1997 received the Outstanding Native American Faculty Award.

Selected for an Excellence in Teaching Award during the U of A’s “Year of the Undergraduate” in 1988.

In 2004 was honored with the Graduate College’s Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring Award.

Finalist for the Victor Turner Prize in ethnographic writing in Canada.

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