Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions
Introduction The '''Pitt Professorship of American History and Institutions''' was established at the University of Cambridge 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.The professorship is unusual in that tenure is for a period of one year only.
List of Pitt Professors of American History and Institutions *1945–46            Dexter Perkins *1946–47            No election*1947–48            Henry Steele Commager*1948–49            Roy Franklin Nichols*1949–50            Walt Whitman Rostow *1950–51            John Donald Hicks *1951–53            Ralph Henry Gabriel*1952–53            Avery Odelle Craven  *1953–54            Corwin D. Edwards  *1954–55            John Bartlet Brebner *1955–56            William Thomas Easterbrook*1956–57            Edward Chase Kirkland *1957–58            Paul Abraham Freund *1958–59            Richard Hofstadter *1959–60            Eugene Victor Rostow *1960–61            Clinton Lawrence Rossiter *1961–62            Richard Palmer Blackmur *1962–63            John Hope Franklin *1963–64            John Morton Blum *1964–65            Daniel Joseph Boorstin *1965–66            Thomas Childs Cochran *1966–67            Peter Michael Blau *1967–68            James Willard Hurst *1968–69            William Clement Eaton *1969–70            Henry David  *1970–71            Walter Galenson  *1971–72            Henry Farnham May *1972–73            Morris Janowitz *1973–74            Eric Louis McKitrick *1974–75            Archibald Cox  *1975–76            Robert William Fogel *1976–77            Eugene Dominic Genovese *1977–78            Paul Allan David*1978–79            Stephan Thernstrom*1979–80            Eliot Freidson *1980–81            Eric Foner  *1981–82            Douglass Cecil North *1982–83            Gordon Stewart Wood*1983–84            Judith N. Shklar  *1984–85            Robert Huddleston Wiebe *1985–86            Peter Temin  *1986–87            Bernard Bailyn *1987–88            Daniel Bell  *1988–89            Warren Forbes Kimball *1989–90            Nathan Rosenberg*1990–91            Timothy Hall Breen *1991–92            Vacant*1992–93            Carol Gilligan     *1993–94            Michael Fitzgibbon Holt*1994–95            Peter Gavin Wright *1995–96            Dan Thomas Carter*1996–97            John Shelton Reed*1997–98            Sylvia R. Frey   *1998–99            Stanley Engerman*1999–2000        James Tyler Petterson*2000–01            Randall Collins*2001–02            James L. Roark*2002–03            Timothy W Guinnane*2003–04            Daniel T. Rodgers*2004–05            Michael Mann*2005–06            Mary Beth Norton*2006–07            Michael D. Bordo*2007–08            J Mills Thornton*2008–09            James T. Kloppenberg*2009–10            Nancy A. Hewitt*2010–11            Gary Libecap*2011–12            Alan Brinkley*2012–13            Jeffrey C. Alexander*2013–14            David Blight*2014–15            Barry Eichengreen*2015–16            Margaret Jacobs*2016–17            Loïc Wacquant*2017–18            Ira Katznelson*2018–19            Naomi Lamoreaux
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