David Brion Davis - Professional

Professional

  • Instructor, Dartmouth College, 1953-1954
  • Assistant Professor, Cornell University, 1955-1958
  • Associate Professor, Cornell University, 1958-1963
  • Ernest I. White Professor of History, Cornell University, 1963-1969
  • Farnum Professor of History, Yale University, 1969-1978
  • Sterling Professor of History, Yale University, 1978-2001
  • Director, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University, 1998-2004

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