endowed chair

An endowed chair is a prestigious academic position permanently funded by a dedicated financial donation, typically used to support a distinguished professor’s salary, research, and related activities.

Observed surface forms (6)

• endowed academic chair ×2
• Regius chair ×1
• designated seat in a learned society ×1
• endowed research chair ×1
• named chair ×1
• position in the Royal Spanish Academy ×1

Instances (20)

• Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University
• Chair M via concept surface "designated seat in a learned society"
• Knight Professor of Business Journalism via concept surface "endowed academic chair"
• Chair Ñ via concept surface "position in the Royal Spanish Academy"
• Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities via concept surface "endowed academic chair"
• Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Cambridge
• John von Neumann Professor in Applied and Computational Mathematics
• Thomas J. Watson Sr. University Professor of Technology and Education at Brown University via concept surface "named chair"
• Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University
• Smith Professor of Modern Languages at Harvard University
• Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
• Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge via concept surface "Regius chair"
• J.W. Kieckhefer Distinguished Research Professor at the Salk Institute via concept surface "endowed research chair"
• Bing Professor of Population Studies
• Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory
• Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy
• Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics
• Beit Professor of Commonwealth History
• Smith Professor of the History of Fine Arts at Harvard University