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 - Robert Darnton^[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]

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