Elected 1998, Professorial Fellow; Emeritus Fellow 2003
Director, the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, 1998-2003; Present position: Senior Research Fellow, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia
After retirement, Keith Thomson became Senior Research Fellow of the American Philosophical Society and he now devotes full-time to writing. His recent books include: The Watch on the Heath (HarperCollins, published in the USA as Before Darwin by Yale University Press) and Fossils: a Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press), both in 2005. The Legacy of the Mastodon is currently in press with Yale University Press and he is at work on two new projects, a book on Charles Darwin and one on Thomas Jefferson and Natural History.
Keith Thomson has a regular column Marginalia in the magazine American Scientist. He reviews for scientific journals and the Times Higher Educational Supplement. He and his wife, the artist Linda Price Thomson, moved back to the United States in 2005.