Columns:: Charter lecturer will discuss studying ‘unpredictable past’

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Columns::November 10, 2003

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Charter lecturer will discuss studying ‘unpredictable past’

By Sharron Hannon
shannon@uga.edu

Hanna H. Gray, considered one of the most significant figures in American higher education, will deliver the fall semester

Hanna Gray

Charter Lecture at 4 p.m. Nov. 13 in the Chapel. The topic of her talk is “History: Studying the Unpredictable Past.”
Gray has enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a university administrator and historian. She served as president of the University of Chicago from 1978 to 1993 and is now president emeritus and also an emeritus professor in the history department. Prior to that, she was provost of Yale University and also served as acting president of Yale. Born in Heidelberg, Germany, Gray received her B.A. degree from Bryn Mawr and her Ph.D. in history from Harvard University. After teaching at those two institutions, she joined the University of Chicago faculty in the history department. Her special interests include the history of humanism, political and historical thought, and politics in the Renaissance and the Reformation.
Among many appointments and honors, Gray is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and holds honorary degrees from a number of colleges and universities.
She is chairman of the board of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a regent of the Smithsonian Institution.
She was one of 12 distinguished foreign-born Americans to receive a Medal of Liberty award from President Reagan marking the rekindling of the Statue of Liberty’s lamp in 1986.
In 1991, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, from President Bush.
The Charter Lecture Series, established in 1988, was named to honor the high ideals expressed in the 1785 charter that founded the University of Georgia as the first chartered state university in the United States. A committee of senior faculty members selects speakers of the first rank for the series.

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