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The appointment, made by the President of Yale University and confirmed by the Yale Corporation, can be granted to any Yale faculty member, and up to forty professors can hold the title at the same time. [1] [2] The position was established through a 1918 bequest from John William Sterling, and the first Sterling Professor was appointed in 1920.
A Sterling Professorship is the highest academic rank at Yale University, awarded to a tenured faculty member considered one of the best in their field. Traditionally, there are only 27 at any one time, though there are currently 40.
He became Sterling Professor of History at Yale from 1961 to 1977, where he taught both graduate students and undergraduates. He did much writing but little original research at Yale, frequently writing essays for such outlets as the New York Review of Books. [15] He directed 25 PhD dissertations, including those by
Mashaw has been an assistant professor of law at the Tulane Law School (1966–68); assistant, associate and professor of law at the University of Virginia Law School (1968–76); and professor of law at the Yale Law School (1976–2015) where he was professor at the Yale Institute of Social and Policy Studies (1982–2010); William Nelson ...
[1] Established by Article VIII, Section II of the Georgia State Constitution, the SBOE consists of fifteen members, fourteen of whom are appointed by the Governor of Georgia. [2] Its statutory responsibilities are to provide all children in Georgia with a high-quality education and to ensure the efficient operation of the public school system.
Akhil Reed Amar (born September 6, 1958) is an American legal scholar known for his expertise in U.S. constitutional law.He is the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, where he is a leading scholar of originalism, the U.S. Bill of Rights, and criminal procedure.
After graduating from Yale with a B.A. in 1973 and a Ph.D. four years later, Bromwich became an instructor at Princeton University, where he was promoted to Mellon Professor of English before returning to Yale in 1988. [2] In 1995 he was appointed Housum Professor of English at Yale. In 2006 he became a Sterling Professor.
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