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Teacher, lecturer, reader, researcher. Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) [1] is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professors are usually experts in their field and teachers of the highest rank.
The professorship's field of modern history was intended to encompass all post-classical history, beginning from the fall of Rome. However, for the first few decades of the professorship's existence, only ancient history was studied in the University, and so the Regius Professorship of Modern History was little more than a sinecure.
Brandeis University ( BA) Harvard University ( PhD) Political party. Democratic. Allan Jay Lichtman ( / ˈlɪktmən /; born April 4, 1947) is an American historian. He has taught at American University in Washington, D.C., since 1973. Lichtman created the Keys to the White House model with Soviet seismologist Vladimir Keilis-Borok in 1981.
Notable works. Gettysburg: The Last Invasion. Allen Carl Guelzo (born 1953) is an American historian who serves as the Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar and Director of the Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship in the James Madison Program at Princeton University. [2] He formerly was a professor of History at Gettysburg College.
Emeritus (/ ə ˈ m ɛr ɪ t ə s /; female version: emerita) is an honorary title granted to someone who retires from a position of distinction, most commonly an academic faculty position, but is allowed to continue using the previous title, as in "professor emeritus".
Edgeworth Professor of Economics. Edward Grey Professor of Field Ornithology. Edward Hall Professor of Archaeological Science. Edward Orsborn Professorship of US Politics and Political History. Ernest Butten Professor of Management Studies. Field Marshal Alexander Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine.
Walter Johnson discussing the slave trade in New Orleans, 2000. Walter Johnson (born 1967 in Columbia, Missouri) is an American historian, and a professor of History and of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University, where he previously (2014-2020) directed the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History.
Historian. Herodotus ( c. 484 – c. 425 BC) was a Greek historian who lived in the fifth century BC and one of the earliest historians whose work survives. A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. [1] Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of ...