ANDREW D. WHITE PROFESSORS-AT-LARGE
GENERAL INFORMATION
The program has its origins in Cornell's early history. Andrew D. White, the first president of Cornell University, inaugurated the position of nonresident professor, to be held by eminent scholars, scientists, and intellectuals who periodically visit the university for the stated purpose of "contributing to the intellectual and cultural life of the university." Toward this end, Professors-at-Large engage in a variety of activities including public lectures, participation in ongoing courses, and collaborative research, as well as holding office hours for undergraduate and graduate students. Professors-at-Large serve for a six-year term and are full members of the faculty when in residence.
Term Ending in 1998
Diaconis, Persi, mathematical statician
Levertov, Denise, poet and critical writer
Term Ending in 1999
Mitchell, Juliet, psychoanalyist and feminist theorist
Mosse, George, historian
Press, Frank, geophysicist, science and technology adviser
Seeger, Anthony, ethnomusicologist
Term Ending in 2000
Berry, Michael, physicist
Wilson, William Julius, sociologist
Term Ending in 2001
Pingree, David, historian of science
Term Ending in 2002
Chartier, Roger, cultural historian
Ernst, Richard R., physical chemist
Goodall, Jane, primatologist
Tobias, Phillip V., paleoanthropologist
Term Ending in 2003
Morrison, Toni, novelist
Rabinovich, Itamar, historian of the Middle East, diplomat
