William Graham Sumner - William Graham Sumner Chair

William Graham Sumner Chair

The following have been the William Graham Sumner Professor of Sociology at Yale University:

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  • 1909–1942: Albert Galloway Keller (1874–1956).
  • 1942–1954: Maurice Rae Davie (1914–1975).
  • 1954–1963:
  • 1963–1970: August Hollingshead (1907–1980)
  • 1970–1993: Albert J. Reiss Jr. (1922–2006).
  • 1993–1999
  • 1999–2009: Iván Szelényi

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