Tom Roberts

Tom Roberts is Senior Lecturer in History at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he received the 2017 Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching. Among his eight books is Anthony Quinn’s Eye: A Lifetime of Creating & Collecting Art, published in 2004. He was executive producer of the documentary, Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date, nominated for the Academy Award in 1986. His play A State of Hope, based on letters of 19th-century Irish immigrants, toured widely in the 1990’s. Prior to RISD, he was founding director of Rhode Island Council for the Humanities. He earned an A.B. at Holy Cross College and an M.S, at Boston University.