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.database of Cambridge University offices and officers
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 2019–20 Heather Ann Thompson 2020–21 Theresa A. Singleton 2021–22 Kathleen M. Brown 2022–23 John Wallis (Economic historian, University of Maryland) 2023–24 Erika Lee 2024–25 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva 2025–26 Beth Bailey 2026–27 Chris Meissner (Economic historian, UC Davis)
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