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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
5801 ELLIS AVENUE
CHICAGO ILLINOIS 60637

Biography   June, 1991

HANNA HOLBORN GRAY
President, The University of Chicago

Hanna Holborn Gray became President of the University of Chicago on July 1, 1978. She is the tenth chief executive of the University.

She was elected by the Board of Trustees on December 9, 1977. At that time, she was Provost and Acting President of Yale University.

Mrs. Gray is an historian with special interests in the history of humanism, political and historical thought, and politics in the Renaissance and Reformation. She taught history at the University of Chicago from 1961 to 1972 and is again a Professor in the Department of History.

She was born on October 25, 1930, in Heidelberg, Germany. She received her B.A. degree from Bryn Mawr College in 1950 and her Ph.D. in history from Harvard University in 1957. From 1950 to 1952, she was a Fulbright Scholar at Oxford University.

She was an instructor at Bryn Mawr in 1953-54 and taught at Harvard from 1955 to 1960. She returned to Harvard as a Visiting Lecturer in 1963-64.

In 1961, she became a member of the faculty of the University of Chicago as Assistant Professor of History, and she became Associate Professor in 1964. 

Mrs. Gray was appointed Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of History at Northwestern University in 1972. In 1974, she was elected Provost of Yale University with an appointment as Professor of History. From 1977 to 1978, she was also Acting President of Yale.

She has been a Fellow of the Newberry Library, a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, a Visiting Scholar at that center, a Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, and a Visiting Scholar for Phi Beta Kappa. She is an Honorary Fellow of St. Anne's College, Oxford University.

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