Ebook {Epub PDF} An Academic Life: A Memoir by Hanna Holborn Gray

Hanna Holborn Gray. Photograph courtesy of the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library. An Academic Life: A Memoir, by Hanna Holborn Gray, Ph.D. ’57, LL.D. ’95 (Princeton, $) Any Massachusetts Hall presidential transition—like the current one from Drew Gilpin Faust to Lawrence S. Bacow —naturally brings to mind questions about University leadership: who is Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins.  · A compelling memoir by the first woman president of a major American university Hanna Holborn Gray has lived her entire life in the world of higher education. The daughter of academics, she fled Hitler's Germany with her parents in the s, emigrating to New Haven, where her father was a professor at Yale bltadwin.ru: Princeton University Press. "Hanna Holborn Gray’s life journey is inspiring and her passion for academic excellence uplifting. Born in Europe, raised in the United States, she is a pioneer among distinguished American academics who propelled the University of Chicago to global eminence. This book is a joy―warm, witty, and thoughtful, piercing, shrewd, and smart."Cited by: 2.

Although I found Hanna Holborn Gray's An Academic Life: A Memoir frustrating to read, the book is generally well written, and her career is an instructive one. She was born in to a father who was a professor of German history at Heidelberg and then at Berlin and a mother who held a doctorate in classical philology. Listen to an audio recording of this program.. In this installment of "Conversations at the Newberry," Hanna Holborn Gray and David Spadafora discuss Gray's remarkable career and her new book An Academic Life: A Memoir. Hanna Holborn Gray has lived her entire life in the world of higher education. "Hanna Holborn Gray has written a marvelous book that is at once a rich, warm, and vivid memoir of an astonishing life and a sharp, lively, and informative account of what it is like to run America's greatest universities. An Academic Life is for.

An Academic Life: A Memoir. Hanna Holborn Gray has lived her entire life in the world of higher education. The daughter of academics, she fled Hitler’s Germany with her parents in the s, emigrating to New Haven, where her father was a professor at Yale University. She has studied and taught at some of the world’s most prestigious. Hanna Holborn Gray studied, taught and led at some of the world’s most prestigious universities. She was the first female provost at Yale and in became the first female president of the University of Chicago. In her new book “ An Academic Life: A Memoir,” Gray writes about her life after escaping Nazi Germany with her family in A compelling memoir by the first woman president of a major American university. Hanna Holborn Gray has lived her entire life in the world of higher education. The daughter of academics, she fled Hitler's Germany with her parents in the s, emigrating to New Haven, where her father was a professor at Yale University.