Harvard University Professor
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At Harvard University
, the title of University Professor is an honor bestowed upon a very small number of its tenured faculty members whose scholarship and other professional work have attained particular distinction and influence. This honor was created in 1935 by Harvard's President and Fellows
for "individuals of distinction ... working on the frontiers of knowledge, and in such a way as to cross the conventional boundaries of the specialties."
The University Professorship is Harvard's most distinguished professorial post.
The number of University Professors has increased with new endowed gifts to the university. In 2006, there were 21 University Professors at Harvard. Presently, there are 25.
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, the title of University Professor is an honor bestowed upon a very small number of its tenured faculty members whose scholarship and other professional work have attained particular distinction and influence. This honor was created in 1935 by Harvard's President and Fellows
President and Fellows of Harvard College
The President and Fellows of Harvard College is the more fundamental of Harvard University's two governing boards...
for "individuals of distinction ... working on the frontiers of knowledge, and in such a way as to cross the conventional boundaries of the specialties."
The University Professorship is Harvard's most distinguished professorial post.
The number of University Professors has increased with new endowed gifts to the university. In 2006, there were 21 University Professors at Harvard. Presently, there are 25.
Present Harvard University Professors
- Adams University Professor - Christoph WolffChristoph WolffChristoph Wolff is a German-born musicologist, presently on the faculty of Harvard University. Born and educated in Germany, Wolff studied organ and historical keyboard instruments, musicology and art history at the Universities of Berlin, Erlangen, and the Music Academy of Freiburg, receiving a...
- Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor - Stanley HoffmannStanley HoffmannStanley Hoffmann is the Paul and Catherine Buttenweiser University Professor at Harvard University.-Biography:A French citizen since 1947, Hoffmann spent his childhood between Paris and Nice before studying at the Institut d'études politiques...
- John Cogan University Professor - Stephen GreenblattStephen GreenblattStephen Jay Greenblatt is a literary critic, theorist and scholar.Greenblatt is regarded by many as one of the founders of New Historicism, a set of critical practices that he often refers to as "cultural poetics"; his works have been influential since the early 1980s when he introduced the term...
- James Bryant Conant University Professor - Stephen Owen
- Charles W. Eliot University Professor - Lawrence H. Summers
- Alphonse Fletcher University Professor - Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., is an American literary critic, educator, scholar, writer, editor, and public intellectual. He was the first African American to receive the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship. He has received numerous honorary degrees and awards for his teaching, research, and...
- Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor - George M. WhitesidesGeorge M. WhitesidesGeorge M. Whitesides is an American chemist and professor of chemistry at Harvard University. He is best known for his work in the areas of NMR spectroscopy, organometallic chemistry, molecular self-assembly, soft lithography, microfabrication, microfluidics, and nanotechnology...
- Gerhard Gade University Professor - Barry C. MazurBarry Mazur-Life:Born in New York City, Mazur attended the Bronx High School of Science and MIT, although he did not graduate from the latter on account of failing a then-present ROTC requirement. Regardless, he was accepted for graduate school and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1959,...
- Thomas W. Lamont University Professor - Amartya SenAmartya SenAmartya Sen, CH is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory, and for his interest in the problems of society's poorest members...
- Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor - William Julius WilsonWilliam Julius WilsonWilliam Julius Wilson is an American sociologist. He worked at the University of Chicago 1972-1996 before moving to Harvard....
- Bishop William Lawrence University Professor - Michael PorterMichael PorterMichael Eugene Porter is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School. He is a leading authority on company strategy and the competitiveness of nations and regions. Michael Porter’s work is recognized in many governments, corporations and academic circles globally...
- Carl M. Loeb University Professor - Laurence H. Tribe
- John and Natty McArthur University Professor - Robert C. MertonRobert C. MertonRobert Carhart Merton is an American economist, Nobel laureate in Economics, and professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management.-Biography:...
- Samuel W. Morris University Professor - Dale W. JorgensonDale W. JorgensonDale Weldeau Jorgenson is the Samuel W. Morris University Professor at Harvard University, teaching in the Department of Economics and John F. Kennedy School of Government...
- Joseph Pellegrino University ProfessorJoseph Pellegrino University ProfessorThe position of Joseph Pellegrino University Professor is one of 23 University Professorships at Harvard University. As of 2009, the post is held by Peter L. Galison, a historian of science and physicist. Previous holders of the chair were Robert Nozick, a philosopher, and Edward O...
- Peter L. Galison - Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor - Robert DarntonRobert DarntonRobert Darnton is an American cultural historian, recognized as a leading expert on 18th-century France.-Life:He graduated from Harvard University in 1960, attended Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship, and earned a Ph.D. in history from Oxford in 1964, where he studied with Richard Cobb,...
- A. Kingsley Porter University Professor - Helen VendlerHelen VendlerHelen Hennessy Vendler is a leading American critic of poetry.-Life and career:Vendler has written books on Emily Dickinson, W. B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, John Keats, and Seamus Heaney. She has been a professor of English at Harvard University since 1984; between 1981 and 1984 she taught...
- Three Hundredth Anniversary University Professor - Laurel Thatcher UlrichLaurel Thatcher UlrichLaurel Thatcher Ulrich , is a historian of early America and the history of women and a university professor at Harvard University...
- Timken University Professorship - Irwin Shapiro
- Robert Walmsley University Professor - Frank MichelmanFrank MichelmanFrank Isaac Michelman is an American legal scholar and Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School.Michelman wrote the influential law review article, Property, Utility and Fairness, on the economic reasons for just compensation in the 5th Amendment Takings Clause in the United...
- Carl W. Walter University Professor - Marc KirschnerMarc KirschnerProfessor Marc W. Kirschner is an American cell biologist.- Biography :Kirschner graduated from Northwestern University in 1966 and in 1971 received his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. He held post-doc positions at Berkeley and at the University of Oxford in England. He...
- Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor - Gary KingGary King (political scientist)Gary King is a political scientist and quantitative methodologist. He is currently the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor and Director for the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University.-Biography:...
- Kolokotrones University Professor - Paul FarmerPaul FarmerDr. Paul Edward Farmer is an American anthropologist and physician. He is currently the Kolokotrones University Professor at Harvard University, formerly the Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, an attending physician and Chief...
- Xander University Professor - Douglas A. Melton
- John and Natty McArthur University Professor - Rebecca Henderson