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Harvard University Professorships

The title of University Professor was created in 1935 to honor individuals whose groundbreaking work crosses the boundaries of multiple disciplines, allowing them to pursue research at any of Harvard’s schools.

Eric S. Maskin, Adams University Professor 

Stanley Hoffmann, Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor 

Stephen Greenblatt, John Cogan University Professor 

Stephen Owen, James Bryant Conant University Professor 

Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor 

Marc W. Kirschner, John Franklin Enders University Professor 

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor 

George M. Whitesides, Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor 

Barry C. Mazur, Gerhard Gade University Professor 

William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor 

Paul Farmer, Kolokotrones University Professor 

Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor 

Michael Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor 

Laurence H. Tribe, Carl M. Loeb University Professor

Rebecca M. Henderson, John and Natty McArthur University Professor

Dale W. Jorgenson, Samuel W. Morris University Professor 

Peter L. Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor 

Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor 

Helen Vendler, A. Kingsley Porter University Professor

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Three Hundredth Anniversary University Professor 

Irwin Shapiro, Timken University Professorship 

Cass Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor 

Gary King, Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor 

Douglas A. Melton, Xander University Professor

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