Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions
# Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions

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
