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David William Blight (born 1949) is the Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. Previously, Blight was a professor of History at Amherst College, where he taught for
Poet and professor Richard P. Wilbur 1942, second U.S. Poet Laureate; Amherst College professor Robert Frost was Wilbur's teacher and mentor; Linguist and professor Eric P. Hamp 1942, LHD (hon.)'72, The University of Chicago, known for expertise in lesser-known Indo-European languages and dialects.
Amherst College (/ ˈ æ m ər s t / ⓘ [6] AM-ərst) is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States.Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher education in Massachusetts. [7]
Amherst College Martha Porter Saxton (September 3, 1945 – July 18, 2023) was an American professor of history and women's and gender studies at Amherst College who authored several prominent historical biographies.
Jen Manion is a social and cultural historian, author, and professor of History and Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies at Amherst College. [1] Manion is the author of Female Husbands: A Trans History and Liberty's Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America.
Lisa Brooks is a historian, writer, and professor of English and American studies at Amherst College in Massachusetts where she specializes in the history of Native American and European interactions from the American colonial period to the present.
He left the ministry to become Professor of Chemistry and Natural History at Amherst College. He held that post from 1825 to 1845, serving as Professor of Natural Theology and Geology from 1845 until his death in 1864. In 1845, Hitchcock became President of the College, a post he held until 1854.
He taught at Amherst College from 1976 to 1988, at the University of Sussex from 1981 to 1983, and the College of William and Mary from 1988 to 2003. He also served as the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Professor of Early American History at the University of Connecticut. [1]