Presidents of The University of Chicago - History

History

• Robert Bartlett – Professor of Medieval History (1984–1992), and currently Wardlaw Professor of Mediaeval History, University of St. Andrew's; Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and author of many books, including The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization, and Social Change (Princeton University Press, 1994).
• Daniel Boorstin – Professor at the University of Chicago for 25 years; Pulitzer Prize winner (1974); Librarian of Congress.
• James Henry Breasted – Professor of Egyptology and Oriental History.
• Bruce Cumings – Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in History and the College.
• Fred M. Donner – Professor of Near Eastern History. Guggenheim Fellow (2007).
• Sheila Fitzpatrick – Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor of History; ground-breaking historian of modern Russian and Soviet history; mentor to several established and up-and-coming "revisionist" historians of the Soviet Union, constituting a "Fitzpatrick School of Soviet History" (http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/publictn/acta/24/roundtable.pdf).
• Walter Kaegi – Professor of Byzantine and Late Roman history, co-founder of the Byzantine Studies Conference and the editor of the journal Byzantinische Forschungen and Voting Member of Oriental Institute, Chicago. Political, Social, Military and Religious History; European Military Strategy; Byzantino-Islamic History. He is author of many books, including "Byzantium and the Decline of Rome" (Princeton, 1968) and "Byzantine Military Unrest 471–843: An Interpretation". (Amsterdam: 1981).
• Cornell Fleischer – Kanuni Suleyman Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies. MacArthur "Genius" Fellow (1988).
• John Hope Franklin – Pioneering scholar of African-American history and civil rights leader; Professor of History from 1964, and John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor, 1969–82. President of the American Historical Association (1979). Winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Pulitzer Prize.
• Ramón A. Gutiérrez – Preston & Sterling Morton Distinguished Service Professor of United States History; Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture; author of award-winning book When Jesus Came the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality and Power in New Mexico, 1500–1846 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991); MacArthur Fellow (1983).
• Harry D. Harootunian – Max Palevsky Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Japanese History; groundbreaking scholar of Tokugawa history, Japanese modernism, and historical theory.
• Akira Iriye – Professor of History until 1989; now Charles Warren Professor Emeritus of American History at Harvard; leading diplomatic and international historian, specializing in U.S.-Japan relations during the 20th century; Guggenheim Fellow (1974) and President of the American Historical Association (1988).
• Marshall G. S. Hodgson – Pioneer in Islamic Studies and global history, member of the Committee on Social Thought.
• Tetsuo Najita – Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Japanese History; specialist in Tokugawa Japan and Japanese intellectual and political history; past president of the Association for Asian Studies (1993–94).
• William Hardy McNeill –
• Hans Rothfels – Professor of History (1946–1951).
• Bernadotte E. Schmitt – Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
• M. Christine Stansell – Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor in United States History and the College; Writer and reviewer for The New Republic and Slate; author of "City of Women."
• Noel Swerdlow – Winner of a Macarthur Fellowship.
• James Westfall Thompson – Professor of History (1895–1933), leading American historian of the European Middle Ages and early modern period; president of the American Historical Association, 1941 (died in office).
• Karl Weintraub – Professor of History (1954–2004) and leading scholar of European cultural history and the history of autobiography.
• John Woods – Professor of Iranian and Central Asian History