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
Gary King, Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor
Douglas A. Melton, Xander University Professor
