Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History
Appearance
The Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professorship is an endowed chair in
The Harmsworth Professorship was inaugurated in 1922 with an endowment of £20,000.[9][10] Holders of the chair are affiliated to
Queen's College, Oxford, and, since 2001, the Rothermere American Institute.[11] The Rothermere American Institute also houses the Vere Harmsworth Library, named in honour of Vere Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermere.[12]
The Harmsworth Professor is selected by the Electors of Oxford and a Committee on the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professorship in American History at the American Historical Association, established in 1939.[13]
Holders of the Harmsworth Professorship
- Samuel E. Morison (1922–1925)[11]
- Robert McNutt McElroy (1925-1939)[11]
- Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker (1939)[11]
- Allan Nevins (1940)[11]
- Vacant (1941)
- Walter Prescott Webb (1942)[11]
- Vacant (1943)
- Thomas J. Wertenbaker (1944)[11]
- Vacant (1945)
- Walt W. Rostow (1946)[11]
- David M. Potter (1947)[11]
- Louis M. Hacker (1948)[11][14]
- Merrill Jensen (1949)[11]
- Charles S. Sydnor (1950)[11][15]
- Lawrence H. Gipson (1951)[11]
- Henry Steele Commager (1952)[11]
- Ray Allen Billington (1953)[11]
- C. Vann Woodward (1954)[11]
- Frank Friedel (1955)[11]
- Arthur Bestor (1956)[11]
- Walter Johnson (1957)[11]
- Arthur S. Link (1958)[11]
- David H. Donald (1959)[11]
- George E. Mowry (1960)[11]
- Kenneth Stampp (1961)[11]
- Richard N. Current (1962)[11]
- Frank Vandiver (1963)[11]
- Allan Nevins (1964)[11]
- Bell I. Wiley (1965)[11]
- T. Harry Williams (1966)[11]
- Don Fehrenbacher (1967)[11]
- Fletcher Melvin Green (1968)[11][16]
- David Brion Davis (1969)[11]
- Charles Grier Sellers (1970)[11]
- William Leuchtenburg (1971)[11]
- Oscar Handlin (1972)[11]
- Carl Degler (1973)[11]
- Richard Clement Wade (1974)[11]
- Jack P. Greene (1975)[11]
- John Morton Blum (1976)[11]
- Norman Arthur Graebner (1978)[11][18]
- Eric McKitrick (1979)[11]
- Morton Keller (1980)[11][19]
- James T. Patterson (1981)[11]
- Samuel P. Hays (1982)[11]
- John W. Shy (1983)[11]
- J. Morgan Kousser (1984)[11]
- David Hackett Fischer (1985)[11]
- David M. Kennedy (1986)[11]
- Richard Slator Dunn (1987)[11][20]
- George M. Fredrickson (1988)[11]
- Daniel Walker Howe (1989)[11]
- Joyce Appleby (1990)[11]
- James A. Henretta (1991)[11]
- John Lewis Gaddis (1992)[11]
- Eric Foner (1993)[11]
- Robert Dallek (1994)[11]
- David Kennedy (1995)[11]
- Robert Middlekauff (1996)[11]
- Ernest R. May (1997)[11]
- Alan Brinkley (1998)[11]
- Robin W. Winks (1999)[11]
- T. H. Breen (2000)[11]
- David Hollinger (2001)[11]
- Melvyn P. Leffler (2002)[11]
- Richard R. Beeman (2003)[11]
- Joel H. Silbey (2004)[11]
- Kathryn Kish Sklar (2005)[11]
- Linda K. Kerber (2006)[11]
- Lizabeth Cohen (2007)[11]
- Peter S. Onuf (2008)[11]
- Robin Kelley (2009)[11]
- Ian R. Tyrrell (2010)[11]
- Philip D. Morgan (2011)[11]
- Gary Gerstle (2012)[11]
- Richard J. M. Blackett (2013)[11]
- Annette Gordon-Reed (2014)[11]
- Kristin L. Hoganson (2015)[11]
- Alan Taylor (2016)[11]
- Elliott West (2017)[11]
- Barbara D. Savage (2018)[21]
- Peter C. Mancall (2019 - 2021)[22]†
- Patrick Griffin (2021)[23]
- Bruce Schulman (2022)[24]
- Elizabeth R. Varon (2023)[25]
- Lisa McGirr (2024)[26]
- Eliga Gould (2025)[26]
- Laurie Maffly-Kipp (2026)[26]
†Professorship interrupted and later resumed due to the COVID-19 pandemic
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- ^ "The RAI welcomes 2023-24 Visiting Professors". Rothermere American Institute. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
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