Cornell University Department of History
Former faculty and faculty emeriti

Cornell University Department of History

Section Title: Former faculty and faculty emeriti
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Name	Title(s)	Field of study	Year joined	Year left/retired	Reference

Felix Adler	Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Literature and History	Hebrew and Chinese literature	1874	1876

Charles Kendall Adams	Professor of History, University President	Europe	1885	1889

Daniel A. Baugh	Associate Professor of History	Modern England, Maritime history	1969	?

Carl L. Becker	John Wendell Anderson Professor of History	The Enlightenment	1917	1941

Knight Biggerstaff	Professor of History, Department Chairman (1956–1963)	China	1938, 1946	1944, 1972

George Lincoln Burr '1881	John Stambaugh Professor of History	Middle Ages	1888	1923

Sherman Cochran	Hu Shih Professor of Chinese history	China	1974	2012

David Brion Davis	Ernest I. White Professor of History	Slavery	1955	1969

Frank Fetter '1892	Instructor, Professor in Political Economy (and Finance)	Political economy, finance	1895	1911

Paul Wallace Gates	John Stambaugh Professor of History, Department Chairman (1946–56)	United States public land policy	1936	1971

Anthony Grafton	Instructor in History	Renaissance	1974	1975

George Washington Greene	Non-resident Professor	United States	1871	1875

Henry Guerlac	Goldwin Smith Professor of the History of Science	Science	1946	1977

D. G. E. Hall	Visiting Professor of Southeast Asian History	Southeast Asia	1967	1972

Jeremiah Jenks	Professor of Political Economy and Politics	Political economy	1891	1912

Chen Jian	Hu Shih Professor of History and China-US Relations	Modern China, Chinese-American relations, Cold War history	2005	2017

Donald Kagan	Professor of History	Classics	1960	1969

Michael Kammen	Newton C. Farr Professor of American History and Culture	American culture	1965	?

Steven Kaplan	Goldwin Smith Professor of History	France, bread	1969	?

Helmut Koenigsberger	Professor	Early modern Europe	1966	1973

J. Victor Koschmann	Professor	Japan

Dominick LaCapra '61	Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies	Intellectual history	1969	2013

Walter LaFeber	Andrew H. and James S. Tisch Distinguished University Professor, Department Chairman	United States foreign policy, Cold War	1959	2006

Max Ludwig Wolfram Laistner	John Stambaugh Professor of History, Department Chairman	Middle Ages	1925	1941

Fredrik Logevall	John S. Knight Professor of International Studies	United States foreign relations	2010	2015

Richard Polenberg	Marie Underhill Noll Professor of American History, Former Goldwin Smith Professor of American History, Former Department Chairman (1977–1980)	United States constitutional law	1966	?

William Provine	Andrew H. and James S. Tisch Distinguished University Professor, Charles A. Alexander Professor	Science	1969

Hunter Rawlings	Professor of Classics and History, President Emeritus	Classics	1995	?

Takashi Shiraishi '1986	Professor	Southeast Asia	1987	1998

Jason Sokol	Visiting Assistant Professor	Civil rights movement (1896–1954)	2007	2008

Goldwin Smith	Professor of English and General Constitutional History	England	1868	1871

Preserved Smith	Professor in History	Protestant Reformation	1923	1941

H. Morse Stephens	Professor of Modern European History	Modern Europe	1894	1903

Carl Stephenson	Professor in History	Middle Ages	1931	1941

Brian Tierney	Goldwin Smith Professor of Medieval History ; Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies	Middle Ages	1959	????

Herbert Tuttle	Professor of Modern European History	Modern Europe	1890	1894

Moses Coit Tyler	Professor of American History, Department Chairman (1881–?1887), White School Dean (1887-?)	United States	1881	1900

Andrew Dickson White	Professor, Department Chairman (1868–1881), University President	Science, warfare, religion	1868	1887

Walter Francis Willcox	Professor of Political Economy and Statistics, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (1901–1907)	Political economy, statistics	1891	1931

L. Pearce Williams '1948	John Stambaugh Professor of the History of Science, Department Chairman	Political economy, statistics	1960	?

O. W. Wolters	Goldwin Smith Professor of Southeast Asian History	Southeast Asia	1964	1990

David K. Wyatt '1966	John Stambaugh Professor of History and Asian Studies, Department Chairman	Southeast Asia	1969	2002

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In 1881, the department named Moses Coit Tyler, the professor of American history in the United States.

final_sentence: In 1881, the department named Moses Coit Tyler, the professor of American history in the United States.