![]() | An Academic Life: A Memoir Subjects: Gray Hanna Holborn; University of Chicago -- Presidents -- Biography; Women historians -- United States -- Biography; Women college teachers -- United States -- Biography; Women in higher education -- United States; A compelling memoir by the first woman president of a major American university Hanna Holborn Gray is the Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Early Modern European History at the University of Chicago, where she served as president from 1978 to 1993. She is the author of Searching for Utopia: Universities and Their Histories . She lives in Chicago. |
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