Harvard University Professor
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."[1] The University Professorship is Harvard's most distinguished professorial post.[2]
The number of University Professors has increased with new endowed gifts to the university. In 2006, there were 21 University Professors at Harvard.[3] Presently, there are 25.
Present Harvard University Professors
- Adams University Professor - Christoph Wolff
- Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor - Stanley Hoffmann
- John Cogan University Professor - Stephen Greenblatt
- James Bryant Conant University Professor - Stephen Owen
- Charles W. Eliot University Professor - Lawrence H. Summers
- Alphonse Fletcher University Professor - Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor - George M. Whitesides
- Gerhard Gade University Professor - Barry C. Mazur
- Thomas W. Lamont University Professor - Amartya Sen
- Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor - William Julius Wilson
- Bishop William Lawrence University Professor - Michael Porter
- Carl M. Loeb University Professor - Laurence H. Tribe
- John and Natty McArthur University Professor - Robert C. Merton
- Samuel W. Morris University Professor - Dale W. Jorgenson
- Joseph Pellegrino University Professor - Peter L. Galison
- Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor - Robert Darnton
- A. Kingsley Porter University Professor - Helen Vendler
- Three Hundredth Anniversary University Professor - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
- Timken University Professorship - Irwin Shapiro
- Robert Walmsley University Professor - Frank Michelman
- Carl W. Walter University Professor - Marc Kirschner
- Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor - Gary King
- Kolokotrones University Professor - Paul Farmer
- Xander University Professor - Douglas A. Melton
- John and Natty McArthur University Professor - Rebecca Henderson
References
- ^ "Harvard University Professors". Harvard University Office of News and Public Affairs. 2009. http://harvard.edu/about/university_professors.php. Retrieved 2010-02-24.
- ^ "Three Named University Professors". Harvard University Gazette. 1998-05-28. http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1998/05.28/ThreeNamedUnive.html. Retrieved 2009-07-17.
- ^ "Gates named Fletcher University Professor". Harvard University Gazette. 2006-10-26. http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/10.26/99-gates.html. Retrieved 2009-07-17.
- Robert Darnton named Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and director of the University Library
- Two University Professors appointed
- New Title To Honor Tribe, Whitesides
- Harvard names two University Professors
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- Note, this does not include all Professors at the campus.
