Robert Farris Thompson (born 1932) is the Colonel John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art at Yale University. Having served as Master of Timothy Dwight College since 1978, he is currently the longest serving master of a residential college at Yale.Thompson is America's most prominent scholar of African art, and has presided over exhibitions of African art at the National Gallery in Washington D. C.
In 2007, Thompson was given the "Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research" award, by the Congress on Research in Dance.http://www.cordance.org/Awards.html