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.^[1] The University Professorship is Harvard's most distinguished professorial post.^[2]

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 number of University Professors has increased with new endowed gifts to the university. In 2006, there were 21 University Professors at Harvard.^[3] As of 2014, there are 24 Harvard University Professors.^[1]

Present Harvard University Professors

• Adams University Professor - Eric Maskin^[4]
• Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor - Carolyn Abbate^[5]
• John Cogan University Professor - Stephen Greenblatt^[6]
• James Bryant Conant University Professor - Stephen Owen
• Charles W. Eliot University Professor - Lawrence H. Summers^[7]
• John Franklin Enders University Professor - Marc Kirschner^[8]
• Alphonse Fletcher University Professor - Henry Louis Gates, Jr.^[3]
• Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor - George M. Whitesides^[9]
• Gerhard Gade University Professor - Barry C. Mazur^[10]
• Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor - William Julius Wilson^[2]
• Kolokotrones University Professor - Paul Farmer^[11]
• Thomas W. Lamont University Professor - Amartya Sen
• Bishop William Lawrence University Professor - Michael Porter^[12]
• Carl M. Loeb University Professor - Laurence H. Tribe^[9]
• John and Natty McArthur University Professor - Rebecca M. Henderson^[13]
• Samuel W. Morris University Professor - Dale W. Jorgenson
• Joseph Pellegrino University Professor - Peter L. Galison^[14]
• Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor - Ann M. Blair^[15]
• A. Kingsley Porter University Professor - Helen Vendler^[16]
• Three Hundredth Anniversary University Professor - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich^[14]
• Timken University Professor - Irwin Shapiro^[17]
• Robert Walmsley University Professor - Cass Sunstein^[18]
• Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor - Gary King^[8]
• Xander University Professor - Douglas A. Melton^[13]

References

1. "Harvard University Professors". Harvard University Office of News and Public Affairs. 2014. Retrieved 2015-01-21. Note, this does not include all Professors at the campus.
2. "Three Named University Professors". Harvard University Gazette. 1998-05-28. Retrieved 2009-07-17.
3. "Gates named Fletcher University Professor". Harvard University Gazette. 2006-10-26. Retrieved 2009-07-17.
4. "Maskin named University Professor". Harvard Gazette. September 6, 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
5. "Abbate named University Professor". Harvard Gazette. November 20, 2013. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
6. "Greenblatt named University Professor of the Humanities". Harvard University Gazette. September 21, 2000. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
7. "Summers named Charles W. Eliot University Professor". Harvard Gazette. June 30, 2006. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
8. Kavoussi, Bonnie J. (August 3, 2009). "King, Kirschner Named University Professors". Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
9. Vittor, Evan M. (June 8, 2004). "New Title To Honor Tribe, Whitesides". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
10. Kamath, Vasant M. (November 3, 1998). "Mazur Named University Professor". Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
11. "Paul Farmer appointed University Professor". Harvard Gazette. December 16, 2010. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
12. Gavel, Doug (December 7, 2000). "Michael Porter named University Professor". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
13. "Faculty Two named University Professors". Harvard Gazette. September 27, 2011. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
14. Gewertz, Ken (February 2, 2006). "Two University Professors appointed Laurel Ulrich and Peter Galison recognized as 'individuals of distinction'". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
15. "Ann Blair named University Professor". Harvard Gazette. November 23, 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
16. Donadio, Rachel (December 10, 2006). "The Closest Reader". New York Times. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
17. "Shapiro Named First Timken University Professor". Harvard University Gazette. October 16, 1997. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
18. "Sunstein a University Professor". Harvard Gazette. February 19, 2013. Retrieved 22 January 2015.