Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions
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.[1]
The professorship is unusual in that tenure is for a period of one year only.[1]
List of Pitt Professors of American History and Institutions
- 1945 Dexter Perkins
- 1946 No election
- 1947 Henry Steele Commager
- 1948 Roy Franklin Nichols
- 1949 Walt Whitman Rostow
- 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 Hofstadter
- 1959 Eugene Victor Rostow
- 1960 Clinton Lawrence Rossiter
- 1961 Richard Palmer Blackmur
- 1962 John Hope Franklin
- 1963 John Morton Blum
- 1964 Daniel Joseph Boorstin
- 1965 Thomas Childs Cochran
- 1966 Peter Michael Blau
- 1967 James Willard Hurst
- 1968 William Clement Eaton
- 1969 Henry David
- 1970 Walter Galenson
- 1971 Henry Farnham May
- 1972 Morris Janowitz
- 1973 Eric Louis McKitrick
- 1974 Archibald Cox
- 1975 Robert William Fogel
- 1976 Eugene Dominick Genovese
- 1977 Paul Allan David
- 1978 Stephan Thernstrom
- 1979 Eliot Freidson
- 1980 Eric Foner
- 1981 Douglass Cecil North
- 1982 Gordon Stewart Wood
- 1983 Judith N. Shklar
- 1984 Robert Huddleston Wiebe
- 1985 Peter Temin
- 1986 Bernard Bailyn
- 1987 Daniel Bell
- 1988 Warren Forbes Kimball
- 1989 Nathan Rosenberg
- 1990 Timothy Hall Breen
- 1991 Vacant
- 1992 Carol Gilligan
- 1993 Michael Fitzgibbon Holt
- 1994 Peter Gavin Wright
- 1995 Dan Thomas Carter
- 1996 John Shelton Reed
- 1997 Sylvia R. Frey
- 1998 Stanley Engerman
- 1999 James Tyler Petterson