Rate My Professor Thomas Holtz

Thomas R. Holtz Jr. serves as Principal Lecturer in Vertebrate Paleontology in the Department of Geological, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at the University of Maryland. He earned a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University in 1987 and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1992. Holtz directs the Science & Global Change Program within the College Park Scholars living-learning community and holds adjunct faculty status in the Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics Program. He is also a Research Associate in the Department of Paleobiology at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History and a member of the Scientific Council of the Maryland Science Center. In 2019, he received the Provost’s Excellence Award for Professional Track Faculty in Teaching.