The Mary Ball Washington Professorship of American History
The professorship was founded through the efforts of John D.J. Moore, Ambassador of the United States of America to Ireland, 1969-1975, and established on August 7 1975 by Statute LXXXVI of the University, with the support of a gift from the Alfred I. Du Pont Foundation.Since its foundation, the Professorship has been held by some extremely distinguished historians, and it has been regarded as a crucial benefit for those teaching history at UCD, as providing a point of contact with the historical profession in the United States and as helping to interest generations of Irish students in the history of the United States of America. For a number of years the historian appointed was someone who specialised in the history of the American Presidency, or the history of American foreign policy, but now the Chair is being advertised much more widely, as any historian of the USA in the nineteenth or twentieth centuries. The School of History and Archives are very grateful to the Fulbright Commission, who have done much to facilitate and support the holders of the chair.
Holders of the Chair
- 1976-77 Donald McCoy
- 1977-78 Lloyd Ambrosius
- 1978-79 Richard M. Reinitz
- 1979-80 Peter Karsten
- 1981-82 Stephen Ambrose
- 1982-83 George McGovern
- 1984-85 Francis Carroll
- 1985-86 Kim McQuaid
- 1986-87 Glenda Riley
- 1987-88 Lawrence Gelfand
- 1988-89 Merrill D. Peterson
- 1989-90 Peter S. Onuf
- 1990-91 Stephen G. Rabe
- 1991-92 Walter Nugent
- 1992-93 Joan Hoff
- 1993-94 Thomas McCormick
- 1994-95 Ingrid Winther Scobie
- 1995-96 Theodore Wilson
- 1996-97 Elaine Tyler May
- 1997-98 Kevin Boyle
- 1998-99 Harvard Sitcoff
- 1999-00 Robert McMahon
- 2000-01 Mark Lytle
- 2001-02 Terry Anderson
- 2003-04 Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman
- 2004-05 Mark Lytle
- 2005-06 Mitchell Lerner
- 2006-07 Kenneth A. Osgood
- 2007-08 Robert K. Brigham
- 2008-09 V. Scott Kaufman and Patrick McGilligan
- 2009-10 Adam Sheingate
- 2011-12 Doug Egerton
- 2012-13 Matthew Sutton
