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
Carolyn Abbate, Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor
Stephen Greenblatt, John Cogan University Professor
Danielle Allen, 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
Robert J. Sampson, Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor
Mikhail Lukin, Friedman University Professor
Barry C. Mazur, Gerhard Gade University Professor
Oliver Hart, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor
Arlene Sharpe, Kolokotrones University Professorship
Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor
Michael Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor
Annette Gordon-Reed, Carl M. Loeb University Professor
Catherine Dulac, Samuel W. Morris University Professor
Rebecca M. Henderson, John and Natty McArthur University Professor
Peter L. Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor
Ann Blair, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor
Drew Faust, Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor
Martha Minow, 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