Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions
Encyclopedia
The Pitt Professorship of American History and Institutions was established on 5 February 1944 from a sum of £44,000 received from the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press
in 1943 and augmented by a further £5,000 in 1946. The title of the chair was changed to the Pitt Professorship of American History and Institutions in 1951.
The professorship is unusual in that tenure is for a period of one year only.
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII in 1534, it is the world's oldest publishing house, and the second largest university press in the world...
in 1943 and augmented by a further £5,000 in 1946. The title of the chair was changed to the Pitt Professorship of American History and Institutions in 1951.
The professorship is unusual in that tenure is for a period of one year only.
List of Pitt Professors of American History and Institutions
- 1945 Dexter PerkinsDexter PerkinsDexter Perkins was one of the most prominent authorities on United States History and served as Professor and Chairman of the Department of American History at the University of Rochester.-Biography:...
- 1946 No election
- 1947 Henry Steele CommagerHenry Steele CommagerHenry Steele Commager was an American historian who helped define Modern liberalism in the United States for two generations through his forty books and 700 essays and reviews...
- 1948 Roy Franklin NicholsRoy Franklin NicholsRoy Franklin Nichols was an American historian and a Pulitzer Prize winner. He won the Pulitzer Prize for History for The Disruption of American Democracy.-Biography:...
- 1949 Walt Whitman RostowWalt Whitman RostowWalt Whitman Rostow was a United States economist and political theorist who served as Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to U.S. President Lyndon B...
- 1950 John Donald Hicks
- 1951 Ralph Henry Gabriel
- 1952 Avery Odelle Craven
- 1953 Corwin D. Edwards
- 1954 John Bartlet Brebner
- 1955 William Thomas Easterbrook
- 1956 Edward Chase Kirkland
- 1957 Paul Abraham Freund
- 1958 Richard HofstadterRichard HofstadterRichard Hofstadter was an American public intellectual of the 1950s, a historian and DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University...
- 1959 Eugene Victor Rostow
- 1960 Clinton Lawrence Rossiter
- 1961 Richard Palmer Blackmur
- 1962 John Hope FranklinJohn Hope FranklinJohn Hope Franklin was a United States historian and past president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association. Franklin is best known for his work From Slavery to Freedom, first published in 1947, and...
- 1963 John Morton BlumJohn Morton BlumJohn Morton Blum was an American political historian, active from the 1950 to 1991. He lived in New Haven, Connecticut and died at the age of 90.-Life:...
- 1964 Daniel Joseph Boorstin
- 1965 Thomas Childs Cochran
- 1966 Peter Michael Blau
- 1967 James Willard HurstJames Willard HurstJames Willard Hurst is widely credited as the founder of the modern field of American legal history. Educated at the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1935, Hurst was a research assistant to Professor Felix Frankfurter, and later a law clerk to Justice Louis D. Brandeis...
- 1968 William Clement Eaton
- 1969 Henry David
- 1970 Walter GalensonWalter GalensonWalter Galenson was a professor of economics at Cornell University and a noted economist and labor historian.-Education and early career:He received his bachelor's degree in 1934, his master of science in 1935 and his Ph.D...
- 1971 Henry Farnham May
- 1972 Morris JanowitzMorris JanowitzMorris Janowitz, was an American sociologist and professor who made major contributions to sociological theory, the study of prejudice, urban issues, and patriotism. He was one of the founders of military sociology and made major contributions, along with Samuel Huntington, to the establishment of...
- 1973 Eric Louis McKitrick
- 1974 Archibald CoxArchibald CoxArchibald Cox, Jr., was an American lawyer and law professor who served as U.S. Solicitor General under President John F. Kennedy. He became known as the first special prosecutor for the Watergate scandal. During his career, he was a pioneering expert on labor law and also an authority on...
- 1975 Robert William Fogel
- 1976 Eugene Dominick Genovese
- 1977 Paul Allan David
- 1978 Stephen Albert Thernstrom
- 1979 Eliot Freidson
- 1980 Eric FonerEric FonerEric Foner is an American historian. On the faculty of the Department of History at Columbia University since 1982, he writes extensively on political history, the history of freedom, the early history of the Republican Party, African American biography, Reconstruction, and historiography...
- 1981 Douglass Cecil North
- 1982 Gordon Stewart WoodGordon S. WoodGordon S. Wood is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University and the recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Radicalism of the American Revolution. His book The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 won a 1970 Bancroft Prize...
- 1983 Judith N. ShklarJudith N. ShklarJudith Nisse Shklar was a political theorist, and the John Cowles Professor of Government at Harvard University.-Biography:...
- 1984 Robert Huddleston Wiebe
- 1985 Peter TeminPeter TeminDr. Peter Temin is a widely cited economist and economic historian, currently Gray Professor Emeritus of Economics, MIT and former head of the Economics Department....
- 1986 Bernard BailynBernard BailynBernard Bailyn is an American historian, author, and professor specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He has been a professor at Harvard University since 1953. Bailyn has won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice . In 1998 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected...
- 1987 Daniel BellDaniel BellDaniel Bell was an American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor emeritus at Harvard University, best known for his seminal contributions to the study of post-industrialism...
- 1988 Warren Forbes Kimball
- 1989 Nathan RosenbergNathan RosenbergNathan Rosenberg is an American economist specializing in the history of technology. He earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1955, and has taught at Indiana University , the University of Pennsylvania , Purdue University , Harvard University , the University of...
- 1990 Timothy Hall Breen
- 1991 Vacant
- 1992 Carol GilliganCarol GilliganCarol Gilligan is an American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist best known for her work with and against Lawrence Kohlberg on ethical community and ethical relationships, and certain subject-object problems in ethics. She is currently a Professor at New York University and a Visiting Professor...
- 1993 Michael Fitzgibbon Holt
- 1994 Peter Gavin Wright
- 1995 Dan Thomas Carter
- 1996 John Reed
- 1997 Sylvia R. Frey
- 1998 Stanley Lewis Engerman
- 1999 James Tyler Petterson