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A Sterling Professorship is the highest academic rank at Yale University, awarded to a tenured faculty member considered one of the best in his or her field. Traditionally, there are only 27 at any one time, though there are currently 40.

The professorships are named for and funded by an approximately $10 million endowment left by John William Sterling of the Yale Class of 1864, name partner in the New York law firm Shearman & Sterling. John William Sterling ( May 12, 1844 - July 5, 1918) was a Philanthropist, corporate attorney and major benefactor to Yale University Shearman & Sterling LLP is a US White shoe firm headquartered in New York City with 19 offices located in major financial centers around the world

The first Sterling Professor was the chemist John Johnson, who was awarded the rank in 1920.

Other past recipients include Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas (Law), Wilbur Lucius Cross (English), Jaroslav Pelikan (history), Nobel Prize winner James Tobin (Economics), and C. Vann Woodward (History). William Orville Douglas ( October 16, 1898 – January 19, 1980) was a United States Supreme Court Associate Justice. Wilbur Lucius Cross Ph D ( April 10 1862 - October 5 1948) was an American educator and Political figure who Jaroslav Jan Pelikan ( 17 December 1923 – 13 May 2006) was one of the world's leading scholars in the History of Christianity and The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially named The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk James Tobin ( March 5, 1918 March 11, 2002) was an American Economist. Comer Vann Woodward ( November 13, 1908 - December 17, 1999) was a pre-eminent American Historian focusing primarily on

Among the most famous current Sterling Professors are legal scholar Bruce Ackerman, Nobel Prize-winning chemist Sidney Altman, literary critic Harold Bloom, economist William Nordhaus, political scientist James C. Scott, historian of China Jonathan Spence, medieval scholars R. Bruce Arnold Ackerman (born August 19, 1943) is an American Constitutional law scholar The Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Nobelpriset i kemi is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of Chemistry. Sidney Altman (born 7 May 1939 is a Canadian molecular biologist, who is currently the Sterling Professor of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology Harold Bloom' (born July 11, 1930) is a Literary critic. Bloom defended 19th-century Romantic poets at a time when their reputations William Dawbney "Bill" Nordhaus (b May 31, 1941, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA) is the Sterling Professor of James C Scott (born 2 Dec 1936) is Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University. Jonathan D Spence (Chinese name, August 11, 1936 &ndash) is a British-born Historian and Public intellectual specializing in Chinese Howard Bloch, Giuseppe Mazzotta, and María Rosa Menocal and Head Start founder Edward Zigler. Current Sterling Professors Emeriti include political scientists Robert A. Dahl and Charles E. Lindblom, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Brion Davis, mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot, historian and former Yale President Howard Lamar and architectural historian Vincent Scully. Robert Alan Dahl (born 17 December 1915) is the Sterling Professor emeritus of Political science at Yale University. Charles Edward Lindblom (born 1917 is a Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Economics at Yale University. David Brion Davis (born February 16, 1927) is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. Benoît B Mandelbrot (born 20 November 1924 is a French mathematician, best known as the father of fractal geometry. Howard Roberts Lamar (born 1923 is a historian of the American West and a former president of Yale University. Vincent Joseph Scully Jr (b1920 is a Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art in Architecture at Yale University, and the author of several

Yale recently awarded Sterling Professorships to María Rosa Menocal, John C. María Rosa Menocal is a scholar of Medieval culture and history Tully, Thomas D. Pollard, Dieter Söll, David Bromwich, David Louis Quint, and Mary Miller. David Bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University. Mary Ellen Miller (b December 30, 1952) is an American Art historian and academic at Yale University.

Current Sterling Professors

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