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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Famous quotes containing the word professional:
“Smoking ... is downright dangerous. Most people who smoke will eventually contract a fatal disease and die. But they don’t brag about it, do they? Most people who ski, play professional football or drive race cars, will not die—at least not in the act—and yet they are the ones with the glamorous images, the expensive equipment and the mythic proportions. Why this should be I cannot say, unless it is simply that the average American does not know a daredevil when he sees one.”
—Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950)
“The relationship between mother and professional has not been a partnership in which both work together on behalf of the child, in which the expert helps the mother achieve her own goals for her child. Instead, professionals often behave as if they alone are advocates for the child; as if they are the guardians of the child’s needs; as if the mother left to her own devices will surely damage the child and only the professional can rescue him.”
—Elaine Heffner (20th century)
“Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention. The professional writer discovers some aspect of the world and invents out of the speech of his time some particularly apt and original way of putting it down on paper.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)