Eastman Professors at the University of Oxford
The Eastman Professorship was established in 1929 by George Eastman, founder of the Eastman Kodak Company. Eastman created a chair at Oxford University to be filled on a visiting basis by senior American Scholars of the highest distinction. Each appointment is made for one year. The fund which supports the Eastman Professorship is administered by the Board of Directors of the AARS through the American Trust For Oxford University. Electors to the Eastman Chair are the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, four persons appointed by the Council of Oxford University, two persons appointed by the Board of Directors of the AARS, and two persons from Balliol College (to which the visiting professorship is associated).
Applications for the Eastman Professorship are usually invited on an annual basis around June. Any inquiries should be addressed to:
The Secretary, Board of Electors to the George Eastman Visiting Professorship
University Offices
Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD, U.K.
or by e-mail to professorships@admin.ox.ac.uk
Candidates will be asked to seek nomination by another individual through one of the constituent units of the relevant Oxford division, and to supply a cv/list of publications and the names of three referees. http://chronicle.com/jobs/0000637585-01
The Eastman Professors
| 2022-23 | Carolyn Heinrich | Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Public Policy, Education and Economics, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University |
| 2021-22 | Harold Hongju Koh | Sterling Professor of International Law, Yale Law School |
| 2020-21 | Philippa Levine | Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas, University of Texas at Austin |
| 2019-20 | Tyler VanderWeele | John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health |
| 2018-19 | Kenneth S. Suslick | Marvin T. Schmidt Research Professor of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 2017-18 | Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe | Clyde and Evelyn Slusser Chair in English, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2016-17 | Niles A. Pierce | Professor of Applied & Computational Mathematics and Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology |
| 2015-16 | Peter McCullagh | John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago |
| 2014-15 | Vacant | |
| 2013-14 | G. John Ikenberry | Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University |
| 2012-13 | V. Kofi Agawu | Professor of Music, Princeton University |
| 2011-12 | Carl Wunsch | Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physical Oceanography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2010-11 | Edward A. Fisher | Leon H. Charney Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics and Cell Biology, New York University |
| 2009-10 | Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina | Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor in Biography and Chair of the Department of English, Dartmouth College |
| 2008-09 | Lynn Margulis | Distinguished University Professor, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| 2007-08 | Frederick Schauer | Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University |
| 2006-07 | Ronald A. Roy | Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Boston University |
| 2005-06 | Mary Carruthers | Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Literature, New York University |
| 2004-05 | Peter Brandt Evans | Eliaser Professor of International Studies and Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2003-04 | Daniel I. Rubenstein | Professor and Chair, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University |
| 2002-03 | William D. Phillips | National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland |
| 2001-02 | Peter Brooks | Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities, Yale University |
| 2000-01 | John Lewis Gaddis | Robert L. Lovett Professor of History, Yale University |
| 1999-00 | Martin Karplus | Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University |
| 1998-99 | Vacant | |
| 1997-98 | Harry B. Gray | Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology |
| 1996-97 | Renee C. Fox | Annenberg Professor of the Social Sciences, University of Pennsylvania |
| 1995-96 | J. D. Bjorken | Professor, Stanford University Linear Accelerator Center |
| 1994-95 | Natalie Zemon Davis | Professor of History, Princeton University |
| 1993-94 | Philip W. Anderson | Joseph Henry Professor of Physics, Princeton University |
| 1992-93 | Robin W. Winks | Professor of History and Master of Berkeley College, Yale University |
| 1991-92 | Richard H. Ullman | David K. E. Bruce Professor of International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University |
| 1990-91 | David H. Hubel | Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School |
| 1989-90 | A. Walton Litz | Professor of English, Princeton University |
| 1988-89 | Erwin L. Hahn | Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1987-88 | Charles Welles Rosen | Professor of Music, State University of New York at Stony Brook |
| 1986-87 | Robert Darnton | Shelby Cullum Davis Professor of European History, Princeton University |
| 1985-86 | Don K. Price | Weatherhead Professor Emeritus of Public Management, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University |
| 1984-85 | Donald Davidson | Department of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1983-84 | Baruch S. Blumberg | Institute for Cancer Research, Philadelphia |
| 1982-83 | Harry Levin | Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University |
| 1981-82 | Clyde Hutchison | Professor of Chemistry, University of Chicago |
| 1980-81 | W. H. McNeill | Professor of History, University of Chicago |
| 1979-80 | Henry P. McKean | Professor of Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University |
| 1978-79 | Clifford J. Geertz | Professor of Anthropology, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ |
| 1977-78 | Charles Tanford | Department of Biochemistry, Duke University |
| 1976-77 | Sheldon Wolin | Department of Politics, Princeton University |
| 1975-76 | John R. Pappenheimer | Department of Physiology, Harvard University Medical School |
| 1974-75 | Benjamin I. Schwartz | Professor of History and Government, Harvard University |
| 1973-74 | Norman F. Ramsey | Professor of Physics, Harvard University |
| 1972-73 | Frank Edward Manuel | Professor of History, New York University |
| 1971-72 | Hans Lukas Teuber | Professor of Psychology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1970-71 | Eugene V. Rostow | Sterling Professor of Law, Yale University |
| 1969-70 | Arthur Marder | Professor of History, University of California, Irvine |
| 1968-69 | Robert M. Solow | Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1967-68 | Melvin Calvin | Professor of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1966-67 | George W. Mackey | Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University |
| 1965-66 | Charles S. Barrett | Professor of Metallurgy, Institute for the Study of Metals, University of Chicago |
| 1964-65 | Lionel Trilling | Professor of English, Columbia University |
| 1963-64 | J. F. Bonner | Professor of Biology, California Institute of Technology |
| 1962-63 | Garrett Mattingly | William R. Shepherd Professor of European History, Columbia University |
| 1961-62 | John H. Van Vleck | Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural History, Harvard University |
| 1959-60 | Homer Thompson | Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ |
| 1958-59 | George W. Beadle | Professor and Chairman Biology Division, California Institute of Technology, President, University of Chicago |
| 1957-58 | George F. Kennan | Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ |
| 1956-57 | Harold C. Urey | Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Professor of Chemistry-at-large, University of California |
| 1955-56 | Roger S. Loomis | Professor of English, Columbia University |
| 1954-55 | John H. Finley, Jr. | Eliot Professor of Greek Literature and Master of Eliot House, Harvard University |
| 1953-54 | Willard VanOrman Quine | Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University |
| 1952-53 | George Washington Corner | Director, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institute of Washington, Washington, D.C., Visiting Professor, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and Executive Officer, American Philosophical Society |
| 1951-52 | Donald A. Stauffer | Professor of English and Department Chairman, Princeton University |
| 1949-50 | Wallace Notestein | Professor Emeritus, English History, Yale University |
| 1948 | Linus Pauling | Professor and Chairman, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego |
| 1945-46 | Benjamin D. Merritt | Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J. |
| 1944 | Charles H. McIlwain | Eaton Professor of Science and Government, Harvard University |
| 1939-40 | Joseph Chamberlain | Professor of Public Law, and Director, Legislative Drafting Research Fund, Columbia University |
| 1937-38 | Tenney Frank | Professor of Latin, The Johns Hopkins University |
| 1936-37 | Simon Flexner | Director Emeritus, The Rockefeller Institute |
| 1935-36 | Herbert Spencer Jennings | Henry Walters Professor of Zoology and Director of Zoological Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University |
| 1934-35 | Arthur Holly Compton | Distinguished Service Professor of Physics, University of Chicago |
| 1933-34 | Felix Frankfurter | Professor of Law, Harvard University, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States |
| 1931-32 | Wesley C. Mitchell | Professor of Economics, Columbia University |
| 1930-31 | John Livingston Lowes | Frances Lee Higginson Professor of English, Harvard University |