An Academic Life
A Memoir
1st Edition
Published on 10. April 2018
352 pages
978-1-4008-8934-1 (ISBN)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Princeton
United States
Publishing group
De Gruyter
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
33 b/w illus.
33 b/w illus.
ISBN-13
978-1-4008-8934-1 (9781400889341)
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04/2018
Princeton University Press
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Person
Hanna Holborn Gray is the Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Early Modern European History at the University of Chicago, where she served as president from 1978 to 1993. She is the author of Searching for Utopia: Universities and Their Histories. She lives in Chicago.
Content
List of Illustrations vii
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xv
1 From Berlin and Heidelberg to Exile in London 1
2 The Search for Academic Work in Exile: London and New York 23
3 The Academic Émigrés in America 46
4 Growing up in New Haven and in Washington, DC 64
5 An Education at Bryn Mawr College 91
6 A Year at the University of Oxford 115
7 Graduate Study and Teaching at Harvard 133
8 The First Round in Chicago and Evanston 169
9 The Yale Years 203
10 President of the University of Chicago 236
11 Finale 274
Notes 299
Select Bibliography 305
Index 315
