List of University Professors at Harvard University

At Harvard University, the title of University Professor is Harvard's most distinguished professorial post, and is bestowed upon 25 of its tenured faculty members whose scholarship and other professional work have attained particular distinction and influence. The position was created in 1935, and allows scholars to work across disciplines and at any of Harvard's schools.

The number of University Professors has increased with new endowed gifts to the university. In 2006, there were 21 University Professors. , there are 25 University Professors.

Biologists or medical researchers

 * Marc Kirschner – John Franklin Enders University Professor
 * Douglas A. Melton – Xander University Professor
 * Arlene H. Sharpe – Kolokotrones University Professorship
 * Catherine Dulac – Samuel W. Morris University Professor

Economists

 * Rebecca M. Henderson – John and Natty McArthur University Professor
 * Eric Maskin – Adams University Professor
 * Sir Oliver Hart – Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor
 * Michael Porter – Bishop William Lawrence University Professor
 * Amartya Sen – Thomas W. Lamont University Professor
 * Lawrence Summers – Charles W. Eliot University Professor

Historians

 * Ann M. Blair – Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor
 * Peter Galison – Joseph Pellegrino University Professor
 * Annette Gordon–Reed – Carl M. Loeb University Professor
 * Drew Gilpin Faust – A. Kingsley Porter University Professor

Political scientists

 * Danielle Allen – James Bryant Conant University Professor
 * Gary King – Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor

Other disciplines

 * Carolyn Abbate – Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor
 * Henry Louis Gates Jr. – Alphonse Fletcher University Professor
 * Stephen Greenblatt – John Cogan University Professor
 * Mikhail Lukin – Joshua and Beth Friedman University Professor
 * Barry Mazur – Gerhard Gade University Professor
 * Martha Minow – Three Hundredth Anniversary University Professor
 * Irwin I. Shapiro – Timken University Professor
 * Cass Sunstein – Robert Walmsley University Professor
 * Robert J. Sampson – Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor

Past Harvard University Professors

 * Paul Farmer (late) – Kolokotrones University Professor
 * Dale W. Jorgenson (late) – Samuel W. Morris University Professor
 * Cornel West – Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, resigned chair and left Harvard in 2002
 * Stephen Owen – James Bryant Conant University Professor