An Academic Life : : A Memoir / / Hanna Holborn Gray.
A compelling memoir by the first woman president of a major American universityHanna Holborn Gray has lived her entire life in the world of higher education. The daughter of academics, she fled Hitler's Germany with her parents in the 1930s, emigrating to New Haven, where her father was a profe...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The William G. Bowen Series ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 33 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. From Berlin and Heidelberg to Exile in London
- 2. The Search for Academic Work in Exile
- 3. The Academic Émigrés in America
- 4. Growing up in New Haven and in Washington, Dc
- 5. An Education at Bryn Mawr College
- 6. A Year at the University of Oxford
- 7. Graduate Study and Teaching at Harvard
- 8. The First Round in Chicago and Evanston
- 9. The Yale Years
- 10. President of the University of Chicago
- 11. Finale
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index